State Ballet School and Artistic School (Berlin)
| State Ballet School Berlin and School for Artistry |
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| Erich-Weinert-Straße State Ballet School | |
| type of school | Vocational school Vocational high school Integrated secondary school |
| School number | 03B08 |
| founding | 1951 |
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Erich-Weinert-Str. 103 |
| place | Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '46 " N , 13 ° 26' 10" E |
| carrier | Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family |
| student | 289 (2019/2020) |
| Teachers | 93 + 2 trainee teachers + 19 educators (2019/2020) |
| Website | www.ballettschule-berlin.de |
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The State Ballet School and Artistic School (Berlin) was created in 1991 through the merger of the ballet and artist schools . Today, stage dance and artistry are taught at this school . The State Ballet School in Berlin emerged from a training center for ballet in Berlin founded in 1951 by the GDR at the suggestion of Gret Palucca . In 1956, the state school for acrobatics was set up independently to train artists.
After the political change in 1990, the state of Berlin managed these two schools in East Berlin and their funding. However, the organizational merger took place under the name "State Ballet School and Artistic School". In 2010, the spatial consolidation at the uniform location took place with a new building.
Ballet school
history
The ballet school was founded in 1951 as a "technical school for artistic dance" in Niederlagstrasse 3 in Berlin-Mitte with three years of training in two disciplines:
- New artistic dance under the direction of Marianne Vogelsang and
- Classical dance directed by Hans-Joachim Scheibe.
From 1953 Hans-Joachim Scheibe took over the overall management of the school. In the same year, courses for further training for dancers were offered for the first time. In 1954 the main training was extended to four years. In 1958 the training facility was renamed “Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin” and a five-year training program was introduced. In the mid-1950s, the cooperation with the German State Opera Unter den Linden began , whereby the students can gain their first stage experience. In 1960 and 1961, the ballet students performed their first own performance several times, the fairy tale ballet in 10 pictures The Princess and the Seven Knights in the State Opera and other houses. In the period that followed, there were also collaborations with the Komische Oper Berlin and the Friedrichstadt-Palast .
From 1959 onwards, a three-year special training course in folklore was added under the direction of Erika Wittig . The training in classical dance was adapted to the example of Soviet ballet schools, especially the Waganowa method . At the same time, the New Artistic Dance department was dissolved. In 1963, the schooling period was changed to seven years from the 5th grade.
In 1969 the school moved into a new building with a boarding school at Erich-Weinert-Straße 103 / corner Gubitzstraße in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and in 1981 the first extension was added. The State Ballet School Berlin was next to the Palucca School Dresden and the Ballet School of the Leipzig Opera one of three state ballet schools in the GDR. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the state of Berlin took over the management and financing of this school. In 1991 the ballet school merged with the school for acrobatics to form a unified Berlin facility.
Training times
The ballet students are trained from the 5th grade in normal school operations according to the Berlin curriculum, with particular emphasis on the subjects dance and sport according to the orientation of the school. The school model offers the secondary school certificate with the 10th grade and, optionally, the high school degree with Abitur . A bachelor's degree is possible in collaboration with the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . The boarding school offers space for 70 residents with a total of 285 students. Until the completion of the new building in 2011, 40 students were housed in an external building in Lichtenberg .
The State Ballet School has been cooperating with the children and youth program of the “international literature festival berlin” for several years . In 2011 the children's book Frerk, du Zwerg! by the German author Finn-Ole Heinrich created a ballet version that was performed in front of the author during this festival in September.
State Youth Ballet Berlin
The State Ballet School has had the State Youth Ballet since 2017 . The aim of this is to enable the students to perform differently in order to give them the stage safety they need for their job.
Artist school
The State Art School was founded in September 1956 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006. Every year the actors who have passed their final examination as “state-certified artist” present their skills to the audience at the festive graduation gala in the Wintergarten Varieté . 90 artist students are taught with regular lessons in the subjects according to the Berlin curriculum (mathematics, German, English, sports and others). Depending on the orientation of the school and the individual learning goal, several hours of artistic training are added every day, so that not everyone can stick to the tight schedule. "Our class has shrunk from eleven to four people [...] At first everyone thinks that it is enough to do a little sport to be able to be on stage." To be successful as an artist for circus, variety or film, you need besides talent, luck and relationships, a large dose of ambition. The training is subject to the same resolutions as in the ballet school, so it is possible to graduate up to the Abitur. Since 2008, memo-media Verlag has been awarding the "Springboard" artist sponsorship award to a graduate of the artist school.
School buildings and new school buildings
Planning for redesign and new buildings
After many years of use of the school buildings and the construction of the new training hall in 2002, the state of Berlin, as the responsible body, decided to completely renovate the school. The closure of a neighboring elementary school freed up space for a new building, on which a hall wing separated from the school wing was created. The spatial union with the "School for Artistry" took place in 2010 and the resulting campus near the residential area of Carl Legien is operated jointly for both previously separate schools.
The architectural office gmp Architekten von Gerkan Marg und Partner won the 2006 competition of the Senate Department for Urban Development. The new building based on the drafts comprised the conversion of one of the two existing school buildings as a brick-lined and plastered reinforced concrete frame structure. With the planning, a uniform location for the state ballet school and school for artistry with all necessary buildings was created on the area between Erich-Weinert- , Gubitz- , Schieritz- and Hosemannstraße . In order to achieve construction clearance, the second school building was demolished parallel to this. This GDR school standard type was previously used as a primary school for ballet students. The demolition of the neighboring primary school on the property has made space for the new buildings since 2009. The old ballet school building was gutted and redesigned.
With the completed new construction of the ballet halls in the practice building, the interim solution of the ballet hall from 2002 could be used for artist training. This training ground facilitated the spatial and organizational merging of the two state schools in Berlin. In 2011 the adjoining old gym was dismantled. The remaining construction work, especially on the facades, the new building of the boarding school and the green areas were completed in 2012. The engineering office Strempel und Große from Berlin-Mahlsdorf was responsible for coordinating and managing all work .
The new buildings
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- Gymnastics room (80 m²)
- Dance hall building with four halls of 145 m² and four halls of 240 m²
- Studio stage of 500 m², which is to replace the current practice hall on Gubitzstrasse
- a new four-story boarding school building
- a regular campus with green and open spaces.
The southern part for theoretical training and the northern part for practical training have been connected with a "green main line" in the area, so that a campus was created. After the school building was completed, the new boarding school for all current 285 students was built along Gubitzstrasse.
The ballet halls in a new building with 2500 square meters of ballet hall area as well as changing rooms and various function rooms were handed over to the State Ballet School and Artistic School in Berlin on November 4, 2010. The main part of the renovation and renovation was completed in 2010. The construction costs for the school renovation, the conversion and the new building of boarding school and halls as well as the necessary outdoor facilities amounted to around 24 million euros. 90 percent came from the GA “Joint Task for the Promotion of Regional Structure” funding program with the participation of the EU ( European Fund for Regional Development ) and 10 percent was provided by the State of Berlin. The school capacity increases to 348 training places.
“This new construction of the ballet halls for stage dance training and the modernization of the theory building are a good investment by the State of Berlin in the future. The school shows how the connection between training and education can be successfully lived and experienced. Schoolchildren from Germany naturally learn and study here with their peers from Japan and Turkey, from Brazil and Italy - 28 different nations meet every day. The applicants come from all social classes and from all religious worlds. Integration works here successfully and without conflict. "
Graduates (selection)
At this school there has been professional dance training since 2006/2007 with the degree “stage dancer (BA)” as a bachelor's degree in “stage dance” in connection with various models of school education including the Abitur. Guest students from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Mexico, Switzerland, Uruguay and the USA were trained. The list of graduates in the arts and ballet department is available on the school's homepage.
ballet
Christel Bodenstein • Citizen Lars Dietrich • Jutta Germany • Beatrice Knop • Oliver Matz • Patricia Meeden • Steffi Scherzer • Gregor Seyffert • Manon Straché • Renée Weibel • Katja Wünsche
Artistry
Yvo Antoni • Tom Breck • Ilian Simeonow • Ronald Jopt • Rémi Martin (artist) • Johann Prinz • Leonie Körner
Teachers (selection)
Christoph Böhm • Edna Carvalho de Azevedo • Ursula Collein • Ursula Dathe • Marta Diminich • Kristina Fedjanina • Emilia Gabriel • Jaakko Helkavaara 1996–2002 artistic director • Birgit Henninger • Asako Horiguchi • Grita Krätke • Harry Müller • Gret Palucca • Michael Piel • Martin Puttke 1979–1995 artistic director, 1981–1991 director • Gregor Seyffert • Ralf Stabel • Gerda Stelzig • Anna Svitlychenko • Katja Will • Eva Winkler • Christel Wirsching • Erika and Joachim Wittig • Marina Wunder-Melnikova
Guests
Karen Bell-Kanner • Benjamin Feliksdal Summer Courses 1980s • Miguel Lopez • Philipp Nasta • Walter Nicks • Kedzie Penfield
Reports of grievances
In 2020, experience reports on grievances (educational misconduct, such as maximum pressure to perform as well as excessive hardship and abuse of power in training and social interaction ) were published at the State Ballet School Berlin and School for Artistics Berlin. The head of the school, Ralf Stabel, and the head of the State Youth Ballet, Gregor Seyffert, were temporarily released from the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family on February 17, 2020. In order to deal with the incidents, the Senate appointed various bodies, which, despite the school being closed due to Corona, are working on clarifying the situation at the school.
Web links
- Homepage of the ballet school
- Dietmar Buchmann : Allez hopp! The Berlin Artist School , TV feature , Deutsche Welle 1996
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Ballet School Berlin and School for Artistry. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, September 19, 2008, accessed on December 1, 2019 .
- ^ Department of Artistry ( Memento from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ballet as a cultural message , on ballett-journal.de, accessed on February 23, 2020
- ↑ State Youth Ballet Berlin in the Here and Now , at tanz.at, accessed on February 23, 2020
- ↑ Current information on the State Art School Berlin
- ^ A b Marie-Charlotte Maas: Learning at the Artist School: State-certified Rampensäue. In: DER SPIEGEL Panorama. December 25, 2011, accessed June 11, 2013 .
- ^ Sarah Raich: Germany's only state school for artists is in Prenzlauer Berg. In: BZ. February 3, 2004, accessed April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Falk Jaeger : State Ballet School: The new building by gmp A house is dancing its way. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 17, 2013, accessed on May 11, 2017.
- ↑ a b Information from the construction site sign
- ↑ Berliner Woche , Volume 20, No. 17 of April 22, 2009, page 1
- ↑ Press release of November 4, 2010, Senate Department for Education, Science and Research
- ↑ Subject area stage dance ( Memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Graduates from the school ( Memento from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Complete list of all acrobatics graduates ( Memento from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sarah Heidi Engel, DER SPIEGEL: Drill and pressure at the State Ballet School Berlin: "You are all fat" - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b DeutschePresseAgentur / dpa: After the announcement of two top positions at the State Ballet School Berlin and School for Artistry Berlin, there is criticism from the scene. dpa / tag24, March 29, 2020, accessed on March 14, 2020 (German).