Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin

Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
founding	1908
Sponsorship	state
place	Berlin
state	Berlin
country	Germany
Rector	Bettina Völter
Students	3739 (WS 2017/18)
Employee	534 (2017)
including professors	61 and 376 other academic staff (2017)
Annual budget	€ 20.7 million (2018)
Website	www.ash-berlin.eu

University building in the Helle Mitte area

The Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH), founded as a social women's school, later the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Education Berlin in Schöneberg , is a university of applied sciences in the Berlin-Hellersdorf district of the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf . The focus of the course is social work , health and upbringing as well as education . Four bachelor's and 12 master's degrees are offered in these areas .

history

The ASH was founded in 1908 by the scientist and women's rights activist Alice Salomon as a social women's school in Schöneberg , Kyffhäuserstr. Founded in 20/21. It became the " prototype for all welfare schools up to the present day."

Alice Salomon, founder and namesake

Teaching began on October 15, 1908 with 82 female students aged between 18 and 30. There were also 213 so-called 'interns' who only took part in individual events. As the motto of the educational institution, the founder had chosen the sentence of the English essayist Thomas Carlyle : “Blessed who has found his job!” In her programmatic opening address, she said about the purpose and aim of the educational institution:

“Purpose and aim of the school: Because this was created and should serve the task of giving work to the girls and women in our city, our country. Work does not mean occupation, not pastime, but an activity that not only takes up your time - but also your thoughts, your interest; which should initially make up the content of her life for a few years, around which only others, what life offers them in terms of joys, pleasures, and stimuli, are only grouped as accessories - like a decorative arabesque, as it were. Work that not only fulfills them as long as they come and go as students in this house; but work that they take out with them when they leave school, as a part of their life that cannot perish, that belongs to them, that determines their outlook on life and their actions, wherever fate may lead them, whatever their place may be intended once later. "

- Alice Salomon, 1908

The new facility was the first interdenominational school with a two-year training course for welfare workers, with "poor care, youth welfare and worker welfare being taught specifically as vocational training on the upper course, while the lower course required more practical work in the after-school care center and kindergarten". The educational institution was able to fall back on a training concept that had already been developed in a 15-year experiment and pilot phase since 1893 in the “girls and women groups for social aid work”, headed by Jeanette Schwerin , and from 1899 by Alice Salomon. For the founder, the social training facility was ostensibly a place of 'modern education', where young women are educated to “make use of the duties and rights that the women's movement had fought for them”.

Report on the opening of the women's school (archived in the Ida-Seele archive )

The success of the social women's school was enormous:

“While the Social Women's School found its internal form in the first few years, it also developed a lot externally. The number of schoolgirls kept increasing. In 1913/14, 33 schoolgirls attended the lower school, 60 the upper school (30 other applicants had been turned away due to overcrowding), and 30 schoolgirls took part in advanced training courses (a so-called third class, which was set up in the first year of the social women's school ) part. There was also an internship course with an average of 58 female students and an evening course attended by 43 female students. It made sense that the rooms provided by the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus were no longer sufficient. "

- Manfred Berger : Alice Salomon. Pioneer of social work and the women's movement. P. 45.

Advertisement of the women's social school

Well-known people from politics, business, philosophy, social work, etc. taught at the private social training facility. In addition to Alice Salomon, these included Clara Richter , Lili Droescher , Frieda Duensing , Gertrud Bäumer , Margarete Treuge , Emil Münsterberg , Friedrich Naumann , Ruth von der Leyen , Idamarie Solltmann , and Albert Levy .

On October 1, 1914, they moved into a new school building, which was largely financed by Alice Salomon from private funds. In 1932, on the 60th birthday of the school's founder, the training facility was allowed to call itself the Alice Salomon School for Social Work .

During the Nazi era , the training institution was retained, but all Jewish lecturers were dismissed and from 1934 onwards, no Jewish students were allowed to be admitted. Applicants then had to submit both an “ Aryan certificate ” and confirmation of membership in the BDM or another Nazi organization. Alice Salomon was banned from the house and forced to emigrate . Her successor Charlotte Dietrich had already joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5,916,653) in 1933 in order to save the training facility according to her own statements. She had “supported the National Socialist seizure of power as a 'new beginning', a restoration of the beginnings”. As a result, teaching and learning content had to be based on the National Socialist ideology. The women's social school was renamed the School for People's Care .

After the collapse of the Third Reich , the school, which from 1952 (but only for a short time) called itself again after its founder, reopened, albeit hesitantly, to the democratic approach of social work, according to the "re- education " program of the US military government. From then on, male applicants were also admitted. Soon new subjects were added: individual social assistance, social group work, social community work and youth care / youth welfare. In 1971 the meanwhile 'Higher Technical School' was rededicated to the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (FHSS).

Since 1990

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, the university was given its original name back to Alice Salomon under the Berlin Senate . In 1998 the University of Applied Sciences moved to a new building in what was then the Berlin district of Hellersdorf (since 2001 the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district ). The move to the eastern outskirts of Berlin was controversial: the Senate, as sponsor of the facility, had decided against the will of the ASH. In contrast, the university's archive is located at the historic location .

Lettering of the university

In the 2007/2008 winter semester , around 1900 students were enrolled at the ASH , the teaching staff consisted of 40 professors , six honorary professors and 120 other lecturers or lecturers. Research is carried out application-oriented, the focus is on the development or scientific support of new offers in social and health-oriented practice.

In the entrance area of ​​today's ASH, two memorial plaques with engraved text, ceremoniously unveiled on April 16, 2008, commemorate the life and work of Alice Solomon.

Alice Salomon Archives

→ Main article : Alice Salomon Archives

The archive was founded in Berlin-Schöneberg in 2000 , after the university had left Schöneberg. It is intended to commemorate Alice Salomon and her life's work at this historic location, because in 1908 the university was founded as the Social Women's School Berlin-Schöneberg. The archive simultaneously documents these beginnings and the development of professionalism in social work at the Alice Salomon University, in particular the professionalism of women's social professions.

Alice Salomon Poetics Prize and Alice Salomon Award

The introduction of the first Master’s course in Biographical and Creative Writing in Germany was the reason for the first award of the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize in the 2006/07 winter semester, combined with a lectureship of the same name. Since then, the university has been awarding the prize every two years (annually until 2017) to interdisciplinary artists who contribute to the further development of literary, visual and acoustic arts. The first prize winners were Michael Roes (2006) and Gerhard Rühm (2007), followed u. a. by Eugen Gomringer (2011), Andreas Steinhöfel (2013), Elfriede Czurda (2016), Barbara Köhler (2017) and Christoph Szalay (2019). The ASH also presents the Alice Salomon Award . This prize is awarded to women who are outstandingly committed to the emancipation of women and the development of social work and who continue and strengthen Alice Salomon's life's work in the figurative sense under today's conditions. So far, the following have been honored: Alice Shalvi (2001), Fadela Amara (2004), Barbara Lochbihler (2008), Rugiatu Turay (2010), Marisela Ortiz and Norma Andrade (2013), Urmila Chaudhary (2018).

Facade controversy

"Ciudad" ("avenidas") by Eugen Gomringer on the gable of the school building

Overpainted facade, the previous painting shimmers through

Since 2016, Eugen Gomringer's Spanish poem ciudad ( avenidas ) on the gable end of the building has been triggering internal and national discussions about university democracy , censorship, sexism and artistic freedom . The poem was affixed in large letters to the south facade in 2011, as it was said at the time, “as a lasting memory” and was intended to additionally honor Gomringer, who was awarded the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize. Gomringer wrote the poem six years after the end of the Second World War and published it in 1953 in the volume of poems constellations when he was looking for new forms of expression with the means of Concrete Poetry on the "semantic rubble" of National Socialism.

After a multi-stage “participatory process” with the possibility of participation by all university members, the Academic Senate decided in January 2018 to remove Gomringer's work from the facade. Instead, the facade was redesigned in autumn 2018 and a poem by Barbara Köhler , who had received the school's poetics prize the previous year, was attached. In Köhler's palimpsesting text, individual, fragmentary letters from Gomringer's poem are "interwoven as omissions [...]" in order to indicate the historical development of this special design. Both Barbara Köhler and Eugen Gomringer created two stainless steel panels with explanatory texts that are attached to the lower part of the facade. His poem “avenidas” can also be read on Gomringer's table.

The decision of the university committee in January 2018 was rated negatively in many cases. State Minister for Culture Monika Grütters spoke of a "terrifying act of cultural barbarism". Berlin's Senator for Culture, Klaus Lederer, described the planned overpainting as excessive, he considered the accusation of sexism against Gomringer to be absurd. Olaf Zimmermann , managing director of the German Cultural Council , said that he would “never have thought it possible that a university that is itself a beneficiary of the freedom of art and science would trample this right underfoot.” The President of the PEN Center Germany , Regula Venske , had already criticized in September that a university with a focus on upbringing and education could not fulfill the social mandate of upbringing and education with censorship. PEN Honorary President Christoph Hein spoke of the “barbaric nonsense of an AStA ”, which is particularly scandalous at a university of applied sciences with a focus on upbringing and education, because “these cultural stormers will one day train the next generation.” The chairman of the Society for Contemporary Poetry , Ralph Grüneberger , emphasized in an open interjection the deliberately chosen contextual blurriness of the poem and the social risk that comes with overpainting a poem - ergo also silencing a literary discourse.

The Berlin House for Poetry , which had been cooperating with the university since the first award, suspended the cooperation in response to the decision and the jury members withdrew from the jury. Thomas Wohlfahrt , head of the House of Poetry , criticized Eugen Gomringer's reputation for being damaged and the price being discredited.

On the other hand, the current poetics prize winner of the university, Barbara Köhler, defended the decision of the Academic Senate. If the students discovered patriarchal thought patterns in the poem and therefore did not feel comfortable in their school environment, this should be accepted. She finds it adventurous to call the decision censorship. Nobody wants to ban the text or crush a book. The decision of the university committee was also supported by the Tagesspiegel commentator Anna Sauerbrey , who found the poem to be sexist and the overpainting “no identity-political book burning”. The historian and literary scholar Elfriede Müller from the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Berlin described Gomringer's poem as “out of date”, saying that it is “not suitable for the facade of such a university today.” Stefanie Lohaus , editor of the feminist Missy Magazine , described in the Time the controversy as an “outrage machine”, which is instrumentalized by “conservative and reactionary anti-feminists”.

School management / directorate / rectorate

1908-1925: Alice Salomon 1925–1945: Charlotte Dietrich 1945–1963: Erna Runkel 1963–1971: Helga Danzig 1971–1973: Kurt Eberhard 1973–1974: Friedrich Hossbach (acting director) 1974–1978: Dieter Claessens

1978–1986: Hans-Jochen Brauns 1986–1990: Marlis Dürkop 1990-1994: Reinhart Wolff 1994–2010: Christine Labonté-Roset 2010–2014: Theda Borde 2014–2018: Uwe Bettig 2018– 0000: Bettina Völter

Graduates and other lecturers

Marie Bloch (1871–1944), German-Jewish educator Erika Janensch (1891–1961), director of seminars for kindergarten teachers and after-school care workers Emmy Bergmann (1887–1972), German-Jewish pediatrician Dora Peyser (1904–1970), German-Jewish social worker Käte Rosenheim (1892–1979), German-Jewish-American social worker Otto Schlosser (1937–2012), German social scientist Gabriele Tergit (1894–1982), German writer Elisabeth von Thadden (1890–1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism Dorothee von Velsen (1883–1970), German writer and women's rights activist

Martha Mosse (1884–1977), lawyer Elfriede Strnad (1890–1960), Froebel teacher Hedwig Wachenheim (1891–1969), German social politician and historian Friederike Nadig (1897–1970), politician Dagmar Schultz (* 1941), sociologist and Brentano Prize winner Marierose Steinbüchel-Fuchs (1898–1978), writer, journalist, entrepreneur Heide Berndt (1938–2003), sociologist Wolfgang Graf von Lüttichau (* 1952), social worker, writer Ruth Zechlin (1899–1966), handicraft teacher, non-fiction author Arnd Pollmann (* 1970), social philosopher

Memberships

• Student Loan Fund

Partnerships

•  State Rittmeister Witold Pilecki University Oświęcim in Małopolska / Poland

swell

• Alice Salomon: At the opening of the women's social school. In: The woman. 16. Vol., No. 2, 1908, pp. 103-107 (slightly revised version); reprinted in:
  • Alice Salomon: Women's emancipation and social responsibility (= selected writings in three volumes. Volume 1: 1896–1908 ). Edited by Adriane Feustel with co-workers. by Edith Bauer. Luchterhand, Munich / Unterschleißheim 1997, ISBN 3-472-03013-5 , pp. 480-485.

literature

• Alice Salomon: Modern Education. In: Centralblatt. Volume 10, No. 6, pp. 41-42.
• Anita Burgheim: From the Social Women's School to the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Education - shown at the three current universities of applied sciences for social work and social education in Berlin. Berlin 2002 (unpublished diploma thesis)
• Manfred Berger : Alice Salomon. Pioneer of social work and the women's movement. (= Knowledge & Practice. Volume 76). 2nd, corrected edition. Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-86099-276-7 .
• Sabine Hering : “Always at the top”? Alice Salomon in the spectrum of her successes and contradictions. In: Beate Kortendiek, A. Senganata Münst (ed.): Lifeworks. Portraits of women and gender studies. Budrich, Opladen 2005, ISBN 3-938094-56-7 , pp. 16-32.
• Adriane Feustel, Gerd Koch (ed.): 100 years of social teaching and learning. From the women's social school to the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin. Schibri-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86863-008-4 .
• Adriane Feustel: 100 years of social teaching and learning. From the women's social school to the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin. In: current. Information from and about Berlin. Edited by the Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin. No. 82, December 2008, pp. 30-32 (online) .

Web links

Commons : Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
• Elke Weisgerber: 100th anniversary of the social women's school. In: Schöneberg district newspaper. October 2008.
• Nina Apin: The beginning of modern social work. The Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences celebrates its 100th birthday. In: taz.de . October 23, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office : Education and Culture. Students at universities - preliminary report -, winter semester 2017/18. S. 37. In: destatis.de , February 28, 2018, accessed on January 2, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office: Education and Culture. Personal an Hochschulen - 2017. S. 81. In: destatis.de , September 24, 2018, accessed on January 2, 2019.
3. ↑ Performance report for 2018 on the implementation of the university contract. Land Berlin, p. 23 , accessed on August 3, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Social women's school . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, II, p. 14.
5. ↑ Hering 2005, p. 22.
6. ↑ Speech by Alice Salomon at the opening of the women's social school. (PDF; 62 kB) (No longer available online.) In: alice-salomon-archiv.de. Archived from the original on January 17, 2012 ; accessed on January 2, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Alice Salomon: On the opening of the social women's school. In: The woman. 16. Vol., No. 2, 1908, ZDB -ID 213934-0 , p. 103.
8. ↑ Burgheim 2002, p. 12 ff.
9. ^ Salomon: Modern Education. 1908, p. 42.
10. ↑ Manfred Berger: Who was ... Charlotte Dietrich? In: social magazine. H. 1, 2003, p. 8.
11. ↑ Feustel / Koch 2008, p. 85.
12. ↑ Burgheim 2002, p. 127 ff.
13. ^ Elke Weisgerber: 100th anniversary of the social women's school. In: Schöneberg district newspaper. October 2008.
14. ↑ Awards of the Alice Salomon University In: ash-berlin.eu , accessed on February 7, 2019.
15. ↑ Co-determination in the (new) design of the south facade. Submission of proposals is still possible until October 31, 2017 // Panel discussion “Art and the power of words” // List of links with press reports. In: ash-berlin.eu , Hochschulkommunikation, October 24, 2017, accessed on October 29, 2017.
16. ↑ Press review about the debate on the university facade. In: ash-berlin.eu , accessed on October 29, 2017.
17. ↑ Harald Martenstein : About sexism and the end of art. In: Zeitmagazin . No. 44, October 26, 2017, p. 8 (online)
18. ^ ^{A b c} Thomas Assheuer : The cleaning troop from Hellersdorf. "Alleen, Blumen, Frauen": The Berlin Alice Salomon Hochschule wants to have an allegedly sexist poem by the poet Eugen Gomringer painted over. Rules for a new poem already exist. A scandal? In: The time . January 31, 2018, p. 49 ( online, January 31, 2018 ).
19. ↑ After a vote by the Academic Senate, the university will show a poem by the Poetics Prize winner Barbara Köhler on the facade from autumn 2018. In: ash-berlin.eu , accessed on January 24, 2018.
20. ↑ Barbara Köhler's poem on the south facade of the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin. In: ash-berlin.eu , December 20, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2019.
21. ↑ For Berlin's Minister of Culture, painting over is barbarism. In: spiegel.de , accessed on January 24, 2018.
22. ↑ ^{a b c} The wall poem is going away. In: 3sat Kulturzeit. January 25, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018.
23. ↑ ^{a b} Cultural barbarism or participation? In: MDR.de . January 24, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018.
24. ↑ Interjection from the board of directors. In: lyrikgesellschaft.de , September 17, 2017, last updated on October 29, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2019.
25. ^ House for Poetry: Cooperation with the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin discontinued. Press release. In: haus-fuer-poesie.org , January 24, 2018, accessed on January 31, 2018.
26. ↑ Anna Sauerbrey : Why it is right to paint over the "Avenidas" poem. In: tagesspiegel.de , January 29, 2018, accessed on January 31, 2018.
27. ↑ That wasn't very democratic. In: taz.de , January 29, 2018, accessed on January 31, 2018.
28. ↑ Stefanie Lohaus: Yesterday's flowers. In: Zeit Online. January 29, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018.
29. ↑ Ellen Schwitalski: "Become who you are": pioneers of reform pedagogy. The Odenwald School in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-206-6 ; ibid 2015, ISBN 978-3-89942-206-1 , p. 111, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201512024794 ( preview in Google book search. Zugl .: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss.).

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