Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tamara, 12, and her grandfather Heinrich Heckeroth are learning how to read and write Sütterlin in a class taught by Birgit Tröße.

Focused and deliberate, Tamara, aged 12, puts her fountain pen to paper and begins to write, forming a script full of sweeping curves and flourishes, but also sharp angles. What she has written could ...