Pupils of higher classes use the possibility to prepare for class in the media center. Tables and armchairs are available. The pupils are the majority of the 1.200 readers. Some pupils also fetch books for their siblings, particularly, if these have German, English or French as a foreign language. However, the media center is also used by graduates who require the German-speaking part.
More pretentious literature is lent by the teachers.
The children of Austrians living in Istanbul are a further group of readers. Sometimes Turkish children from neighboring schools come. The most eager readers were the pupils of the preparation classes. After the change of the school law, which prohibits foreign schools to have the lower grades anymore, we now have pupils at the preparation classes at the age of 15-16 years. They just started learning German , that's why it is difficult to find suitable texts in German for them.