Angergymnasium (Jena)
The Angergymnasium is a grammar school in the Thuringian university town of Jena . With around 850 students in the 2019/2020 school year, it is the largest of the city's six high schools. It is located in the Jena-Ost district.
history
The upper school at Anger was DDR -times the largest secondary school ( Advanced High School ) Jenas. The school was inaugurated with a first construction phase in October 1953, further construction phases were completed in 1954 (subject rooms for physics, chemistry and drawing) and 1956 (gymnasium, auditorium). Construction work on the school was partly carried out as part of the national construction project . In 1958, some upper school classes were taken over from the Adolf Reichwein Oberschule, which had been converted into a polytechnic high school .
The school had a mathematical and scientific and a modern language (Russian, English / French, Latin) train for grades nine to twelve. The first headmaster until 1957 was Franz Dörderecht (subjects German, French and Latin). He was succeeded by director Franz Clausner (subjects sport and German), during whose tenure the school was renamed the Johannes-R.-Becher-Oberschule on May 18, 1961 ; During his tenure, the Abitur with vocational training was also introduced. Lessons were given from Monday to Saturday; lessons in the afternoon were also common. The school had an excellent school orchestra and school choir (choir and orchestra director: Gerhard Häselbarth). From 1958 there was a certificate-relevant "teaching day in production" (fortnightly), which was carried out, among other things, in the large Jena companies Zeiss and Schott . “Productive work performance” of the students is also to be cited for activities within the national structure (e.g. horticultural auxiliary work in Jenaer Oberaue ), for FDJ obligations (e.g. sludging of ponds in Plothen in Thuringia ) or for harvesting operations on LPGs and goods in the Jena area. The intellectual climate in Jena the years to the construction of the Wall in 1961, among other things captured in the novel perseverance in Paradise by Renate feyl . Quite a few students of the early "Anger classes" - and also some teachers - left the country through the sector borders in Berlin that were open until August 13, 1961 or on the occasion of visits to West Germany that were possible at that time. The exodus of (former) schoolchildren in particular - official statistics recorded them as so-called "lock breakers" - was to continue into the 1960s. From the Abitur class 1961 of class 12 A1 (18 pupils) up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, 40% of their classmates moved to the West.
Since 1991 the school has been continued as an anger grammar school in the newly structured Thuringian education system.
Former students
- Luisa Liebtrau (* 1991), actress
- Renate Feyl (* 1944), writer
- Barbara Göbel (* 1943), swimmer
- Roland Jahn (* 1953), journalist, federal commissioner for the Stasi files
- Siegfried Reiprich (* 1955), civil rights activist, writer
- Martin Seifert (* 1951), actor
literature
- 50 years of Anger - The Festschrift . Jena 2003.
Web links
- Official school homepage
- Photo of the former school building on the Anger
- History work at the Anger-Gymnasium Jena, October 2004 , program Learn & Live Democracy
- Stasi in the EOS . In: Gerbergasse 18 , Issue 64, June 2012 edition (especially pp. 28–31)
- 60 years of Angerschule
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 59.7 " N , 11 ° 36 ′ 21.3" E