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Actually, I would never expect anyone to understand Sütterlin, independent of the situations you describe. There are exceptions, of course, and within the older age group, you may actually find people to read it easily. My grandparents learnt Sütterlin in school, while my parents did not. Me neither, of course. To answer your question, you should only use ...

In German there is not a single "proper" way to write letters in handwriting. There are regional variations (see here for details). For schools in Germany there are federal regulations that define how pupils learn to write. Most widely used are the "Lateinische Ausgangsschrift" and the "Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift". In these the letter 'ß' is written as ...

Es handelt sich um eine bereits im 18. Jahrhundert gebräuchliche Kurrentschrift. Im verlinkten Wikipedia-Artikel findet sich auch eine Alphabettafel, mit deren Hilfe man einzelne Buchstaben zuordnen kann. Von den ersten beiden Zeilen kann ich folgendes entziffern: So schön sang in der ... (Schäfer?) Welt der redliche ... (Liron?), als Luna durch die ...

As OregonGhost wrote, Sütterlin is completely out-of use in germany, and i would expect people to be able to read Sütterlin only in special areas, for example archives or libraries (old library catalogues are partly written by hand using Sütterlin). Using Sütterlin in written exams nowadays would be a certain way to annoy the examiner severely...

I just write it like my greek beta 2-- | \ | ) | 3 | \ | ) | 4 1 There are some people writing it with an upstroke (quite similar to user unknowns proposal) like that: taken from WikiBooks German Other variants, which are no more/not yet teached in Germany, are from the Schulausgangsschrift (left) and the proposed Grundschrift (right)

A late answer, I just now found the question. Despite what the others said, we were actually told by several teachers at high school that Sütterlin is still strictly speaking accepted when handing in a test or homework (as in, the teacher has to accept it, and pretty much regardless of the subject). I’m not entirely sure if this is actually true but since ...

Zusätzlich zu Takkats Antwort empfehle ich, Stück für Stück vorzugehen, und den bisher entzifferten Inhalt zu beachten. Schreib Dir das, was Du erkennen kannst, als Lückentext auf. Wenn Du in einem Satz ein oder zwei Wörter nicht lesen kannst, überlege, was grammatikalisch und thematisch passen könnte. Wenn Du ein Zeilenende entziffert hast, reimt sich das ...