On May 13th at 9:10 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Christoph Feurstein will present the following contributions in “Thema” on Monday, May 13, 2024, at 9:10 p.m. on ORF 2:
Educators at the limit – shortage of staff in kindergarten
“We often don’t even have time to listen anymore,” says elementary school teacher Julia Prinke. She has been working in a kindergarten in Eisenstadt for 28 years. She sharply criticizes the lack of staff. In Austria, a teacher can be responsible for a maximum of 25 children. 21-year-old Sandra Karmberger says: “I wanted to, but I couldn’t anymore.” She stopped working as a teacher last month. Last year there were more children in care facilities than ever before. More and more children under the age of three are in daycare because both parents work or the mother is a single parent. Where is the problem in the system and how much are our children worth to us? Savanka Schwarz and Leon Hoffmann-Ostenhof accompanied educators and parents with their cameras for “Thema”.
Psychological problems after childbirth – postpartum depression
“It was an absolute state of emergency. I felt like I was losing my mind.” The first time after the birth of her son was a nightmare for Anna Oberdorfer. “I was confused and disoriented, I could no longer go to the supermarket alone and I could hardly remember my name,” says the Carinthian woman. She is one of the 15 percent of all women who suffer from psychological problems after the birth of their child or even during pregnancy. Even for Ulrike Vietauer from Lower Austria, the happiness everyone expected as a mother didn’t materialize straight away. She felt overwhelmed and cried a lot. “I had an extremely bad conscience. I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t feel the way people are supposed to feel.” Like Anna Oberdorfer, she finds help in the special outpatient clinic for peripartum psychiatry at the Ottakring Clinic in Vienna. Eva Kordesch asked there and spoke to three mothers about their way out of the crisis.
Hurdles in PV expansion – The fight for sustainable energy
“I want a groundbreaking judgment that will serve as a role model for all of Austria. It cannot be the case that a photovoltaic system on an apartment building is only possible if all the owners agree. “The majority has to be enough here,” says Siegmund Schachinger angrily. According to the pensioner from Ried im Innkreis, he has been fighting in court for years against a neighbor who is preventing his contribution to the energy transition. The Schmidl-Amann couple from St. Pölten also want to rely on solar power. Here, the city in the center completely prohibits the attachment of modules to the roof. The case is now before the Lower Austria State Administrative Court. It is intended to clarify how the townscape can be taken into account in the future and sustainable energy can still be produced. Markus Waibel did research.