Ayla Uluçam from Berlin is Germany's best reader 2025!

Ayla Uluçam from Berlin is Germany's best reader 2025!

The joy of the victory of a young talent in Berlin is great: twelve -year -old Ayla Uluçam has won the nationwide reading competition 2025. The competition, which is under the patronage of the Federal President, is one of the largest student competitions in Germany. This year, over 550,000 children from more than 7,000 schools took part. The final took place on June 25th in the RBB television studio in Berlin.

Ayla Uluçam, who attended a high school in Mariendorf, prevailed against 15 competitors from all federal states in an exciting final. She impressed the jury with a reading from the book Game of Noctis - game for your life by Deva Fagan. Angelika Schaack, the jury chair, emphasized that the decision for the best reader was "incredibly difficult" and that the jury "really wrestled" in order to get such a result as [rbb24] (https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/biebtrag/2025/vorlese competition-2025-berinerin-ginnt.html) reported.

The importance of reading

As part of the competition, Torsten Amarell, deputy program director of the RBB, emphasized the importance of reading. This event not only offers a platform for the children to show their reading skills, but also promotes the desire to read as well as the self -confidence and social skills of the participants. The participating students come from sixth classes and are the focus of the reading promotion since the first orientation of the competition in 1959. Every year, various phases are underway, starting from the class and school sheaths in October to the federal final in June, as well as readefoerderung.de emphasized.

In the course of the final, not only Ayla performed, but also other talented young readers such as Amalia Schröder from the Federal President-Th.-Heuss School in Hesse, who read from Mattie & Mercedes , and Gustav Monday from St.-Josef-Gymnasium in Thuringia, who shone with his voting volume. The achievements of Nele Müller and Mats Zaschke also noticed and showed the diversity and enthusiasm of the participating children for reading aloud. In the final criterion, Ayla Uluçam received the predicate of the best reader in 2025, which shows the level and the dedication of all participants, such as [boersenblatt.net] (https://www.boersenblatt.net/home/ayla-ulcam-ist-te-beste-lichrin- 2025-378403).

The reading competition with its structure and the evaluation guidelines that include aspects such as reading flow, clarity and the selection of suitable text passages offers a valuable framework for all prospective readers. In this way, it enables comprehensive and beneficial learning experience that goes far beyond the pure reading. Ayla's victory is an impressive example of what young talents can achieve when they get the chance to present themselves on such an important stage.