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Tears run down the cheeks of local resident Monika Koch (81) during the virtual Christmas concert. “It was beautiful, just great. It really blew me away, ”he says in an interview with BLICK and immediately gets excited again.
Virtual Christmas concert: Christmas mood at the nursing home despite Corona(01:25)
The former ad agency has only been in the retirement home for six months and misses her family very much, especially now, during the thoughtful Christmas season, she sometimes feels lonely.
The online concert was about 200 hours of work.
The Lyss Music Society wanted to make those people happy with the virtual concert. “At this time of year we usually play in homes for the elderly. That won’t work this year, ”explains President Simon Scheurer (30). Thus came the idea of the online serenade.
The association invested around 200 hours of work in the project. The 45-minute show was filmed in a homely decorated farmhouse room and in the musicians’ living rooms. The work has paid off: on Sunday, the musicians’ performance was broadcast in more than 90 nursing homes and hospitals across Switzerland.
“It was great!”
At the Lyss-Busswil retirement home in Bern, only a small group of seven people saw. Reason: The house tries to avoid mixing residents on different floors. In return, the seven viewers were able to enjoy the virtual serenade even without a mask, since they are in daily contact anyway, for example while eating.
As small as the group, so great is the enthusiasm. “It was really cool how it sounded,” says resident Elio Mattioni (80). Daniel Probst (55) even rocked to the beat in his wheelchair and was still beaming after the concert: “It was great!”
Applause to the screen
Institutional director Timo Schneider (48) is very grateful to the musical society for this opportunity: “Otherwise, we are plagued with ‘shiftitis’ and ‘rejection disease’. Over and over again, things are planned and then still can’t happen, and that affects people’s minds. ”So this was a welcome change.
This is also the case for Ittigen BE. Two dozen neighbors had the pleasure of witnessing the premiere there. “It was like it was real, we applauded even though the musicians weren’t really here,” said former mechanical engineer Hans Lüthi (88) enthusiastically after the show. Walter Zimmermann (86), a fan of the alpine horn, immediately blows the same horn.
Will vaccination help?
The times of masks, disinfectants, and few visits remain difficult for many residents in the home. So for Monika Koch: “We have to get over it now. After all, we haven’t had a single case here at home, that’s really remarkable. And fortunately the vaccination will come soon. “
The 81-year-old woman is sure she wants to get vaccinated: “I have already discussed this with my doctor.” She thinks it is very good that risk groups are treated first.
BLICK has gifts
The managing director of the home, Benjamin Gimmel (51), also advocates vaccination as quickly as possible: “From the age of 80 there are about 20 percent who do not survive Corona. So for me, there is no question that these older people should get vaccinated. “
Messrs Lüthi and Zimmermann are also not opposed to this. The main thing is that the pandemic ends soon. Because Hans Lüthi only says: “That is terrible, there is nothing but Corona in the newspaper and on television.”
To give the pensioners of Lyss and Ittigen other thoughts, BLICK had a bit of encouragement in his luggage. As part of the action day «Talk about it. Finding Help »Younger readers could submit their Corona mental health cartoons.
Great joy for children’s drawings.
There is great joy about it in homes. One resident in particular, in whose drawings the penguins even have bulging eyes, can hardly get out of the glow. In Ittigen, an old woman even wanted to pay for the drawing, she was very happy about the small gift of the BLICK mini readers. But in times like these, hope and joy are gifts from the heart and are therefore priceless.
