Albert Schweitzer High School (Kaiserslautern)

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Albert Schweitzer High School
Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern.jpg
Exterior view of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium
type of school high school
founding 1811
place Kaiserslautern
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '52 "  N , 7 ° 46' 10"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '52 "  N , 7 ° 46' 10"  E
carrier City of Kaiserslautern
student 950
Teachers 65 plus trainee lawyers
management Eva Wenzel-Staudt
Website asg-kl.de

The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium is a general education high school in the city of Kaiserslautern . It was named after the theologian , doctor , musician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer .

history

Previous headmistress
Friedrich Balbier 1811-1832
Richard Haas 1834-1844
Valentin Völcker 1844-1876
Jacob Simon 1876-1902
Karl Lösch 1902-1910
Albert von Kennel 1910-1914
Jakob Haury 1914-1927
Georg Kesselring 1927-1934
Wilhelm Weber 1934-1945
Matthew Krumm 1945–1951
Otto Walter 1952-1969
Adolf Fischer 1969-1989
Hermann Krämer 1989-1998
Max Laveuve 1998-2011
Eva Wenzel-Staudt since 2011

The grammar school was founded in 1811 as a "non-denominational Latin school for boys" . The founding - document was created on 25 April 1811 with the lessons began on 11 November 1811th The first headmaster was the reform pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm Balbier , who took up the service together with two other teachers. At first 66 students attended the Latin school . In the first few years, the main subjects were Greek, Latin and mathematics. In the period from 1872 to 1891 the school was gradually expanded into a full high school. So in 1878 the current building was moved into. When the separation between Latin school and grammar school was abolished, the school was renamed "Royal Humanistic Grammar School" in 1891 . From the end of 1918 the grammar school also took on girls.

Due to the destruction in World War II , especially during the air raid on September 28, 1944, today's Burggymnasium initially served as emergency accommodation after 1945. On March 11, 1952, the later director Otto Walter laid the foundation stone for the new building of an old-language grammar school .

From 1967 it was continued as the " Old Language and New Language High School" . In 1978 the name was changed to "Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium". This was intended to underline the life's work and the selfless commitment of Albert Schweitzer in the sense of a Christian-humanitarian attitude as the basis of the self-image of the school. The number of pupils rose from 337 in 1961 to 865 in 1982. In the 2010/11 school year, 934 pupils attended the grammar school.

Since 1976 there has been an annual information day in autumn for future students and their parents. School concerts and theatrical performances have since become an established institution at the school.

Focus

The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium has a new language branch in addition to the old language. This means that both Latin and English can be chosen as the first foreign language from the 5th grade. Other foreign languages ​​are French and Greek . A special feature is the specialist Spanish is that available from the 9th grade as volunteer foreign language and on the upper level as basic and advanced courses will be continued. Music , visual arts and computer science can be chosen as a basic or advanced course at the upper level. The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium also has additional focuses:

comet

As a comet a school subject is called, which stands for " Ko mmunikations-, Me thoden- and T forms eamarbeitstraining". It has been taught at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium since the 2000/01 school year and was awarded a special prize on November 30, 2009 in the context of the “German Teacher Award - Innovative Teaching” competition in the presence of the then Federal President Horst Köhler . The aim of this subject is to introduce students to grammar school work and to educate them to become independent.

The subject already starts in the fifth grade, when this subject is assigned one school lesson per week. Students learn to pack their satchels appropriately, do research, do homework carefully, and prepare for a class test or test. The comet block days on pets take place on three days in March. In small groups the children learn to work with texts, to filter out information and to reproduce the results. During this time, each student gives a short presentation to the class.

In the eighth grade there is a project day as part of the Komet program on the subject of online security . The participants deal with the dangers of the Internet in small groups. In the ninth grade, the students complete an internship.

Musical focus

One of the special features of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium is the pronounced musical focus, which is mainly characterized by the many different ensembles. There is a lower school choir, a choir for grades seven to twelve, a chamber choir , a pre-orchestra, a school orchestra, a jazz band and a big band . They present what they have learned over the half-year in two concerts that take place in spring and during Advent.

The students are brought closer to music in other ways too. In the project classic instead of bell , the break gong is a (mostly) classic piece, which is also explained on the substitution plan and discussed in class. In addition, the music workshop offers additional musical training for particularly musical students in grades seven to ten. Part of the focus is an additional music lesson in the 5th grade.

Mathematical and natural science focus

The mathematical and scientific focus was introduced in the 2006/07 school year. It includes an additional hour of compulsory science lessons for the 7th grade and offers, among other things, an astronomy AG for grades 9–13 .

Student exchange

At the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium there are several possibilities to take part in a student exchange . There is the Voltaire program, which offers a 6-week exchange with France . There is also an individual program (2 weeks) for Rhineland-Palatinate and Burgundy, in which students from the 9th grade (Germany) and the 3rd grade (France) give each other cultural and linguistic insights into their country. The Schumann program is also a two-week exchange in which German and French schoolchildren make friends. The exchange takes place between Rhineland-Palatinate and Lorraine . Since the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium has had a partner school in Tarragona / Spain (Col.legi Sant Pau Apòstol) since the 2003-2004 school year , there is an exchange of students for the Spanish courses in the 10th grade every year.

Other partner schools are:

Projects

Certain actions take place as part of the Komet project. The 5th grades dedicate themselves to the subject during the three-day Komet Blocktage and work on dealing with texts and presentations. The forest days are held annually for the 7th grade. The responsible biology teachers explore the forest and nature with their classes over two days. The project days are usually held every two years with changing topics. Then the participants present the various projects at the school festival.

In addition, several students are successfully involved in so-called “ junior companies ”, in which they look after their own company together for a year.

In addition, the students are offered training in mediators to settle disputes. The participants are used for the tutor project in the 5th grade, in which the students learn how to interact in social groups under the motto “With each other instead of against each other” . The mediators also have the option of completing training as a school advisor .

Events

The Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium organizes various musical and sporting events as well as theater performances. Every year there are two concerts with performances by the orchestra , the choir and the big band .

The school has two theater groups, the lower level theater for grades five to seven and the school theater for grades 8 to 13. They put on a play per school year in which the costumes and sets are designed and made by themselves; The musical accompaniment is also composed and performed by the students.

In September the high school organizes an annual sports festival. There is also forest running day, which usually takes place in June. Depending on their stamina and age, all students walk five or ten kilometers through the forest around the university campus .

For the lower grades, the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium occasionally organizes a reading night, during which a class goes to school in the evening under the supervision of teachers and reads there. Sometimes this is linked to an overnight stay in the school building.

public relation

In order to present itself to the public, the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium runs a school newspaper called “Black Out”, which appears twice per school year. All students are allowed to participate in the Black Out. There is also an association of alumni and friends that support the school in a variety of ways.

Known students

literature

  • Hans, Beutel, Gerlach: Festschrift of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium 1811–1986 . Rohr Druck, Kaiserslautern 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Krämer, Reinhard Blickpunkt: 200 years Albert Schweitzer high school. Committed to the humanistic ideal. Die Rheinpfalz, No. 103, May 3, 2011.
  2. ^ German Teacher Award - Innovative Lessons , accessed on November 24, 2010
  3. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Pfälzische Volkszeitung. November 23, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .