Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium (Benrath)

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Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium
Annette von Droste Hülshoff Gymnasium Benrath.JPG
type of school high school
School number 164355
founding 1905
address

Brucknerstrasse 19

place Düsseldorf -Benrath
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 9 '29 "  N , 6 ° 52' 42"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '29 "  N , 6 ° 52' 42"  E
carrier City of Düsseldorf
student 986 (as of 2012)
Teachers 60
management Michael Kleinheider
Website www.annettegymnasium.de

The Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium ( Annette-Gymnasium for short ) is a high school in the Düsseldorf district of Benrath , which is attended by almost 1000 students who are taught by over 60 teachers.

history

The forerunner of today's school was a private school founded in 1905 by Miss Clementine Bene . This school was an all girls' school, but there was a pre-school attached, which boys also attended.

In 1910 the community took over the school, which was now called the "Upper Girls' School of the Community of Benrath am Rhein". Classes have been held since April 13, 1910 in the building on the corner of Kappeler Strasse and Benrodestrasse that is still preserved today, and since 1912 in the east wing of Benrath Palace. For the school year 1912/1913, the upper girls ' school became the " higher girls' school in Benrath am Rhein".

After the First World War the preschool was closed. In February 1920 the school's application for Lyceum status , which had been made before the war, was approved. Efforts to expand what is now the “Lyzeum Benrath am Rhein” up to the Abitur failed at first due to the financial difficulties of the community. From 1928 to 1930 the school finally became an upper lyceum, roughly equivalent to today's grammar school (as "upper lyceum in the making of the community Benrath am Rhein" or from the incorporation of Benrath to Düsseldorf in 1929 "upper lyceum in the making Düsseldorf-Benrath"). In 1930 the status of the upper lyceum was revoked again from the school, as a result of which the name became "Städtisches Lyzeum Düsseldorf-Benrath" again. On February 12, 1932, the first high school exams in the history of the school were held.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, profound changes were felt at the Lyzeum Benrath. Subjects such as civics or race studies were given priority; the teachers had to be members of a Nazi organization and prove their "Aryan descent" . In 1935 the institution was renamed “Benrather Schloß-Lyzeum” and in 1938 it was renamed “Städtische Schloßschule”. During the Second World War , collections and operations for the war economy impaired teaching; from 1942 onwards, some of the students and teachers were sent to the Kinderlandverschickung . The effects of the war eventually made continuous teaching impossible; on October 6, 1944, it had to be stopped entirely.

On October 15, 1945, school operations were resumed under the direction of Helmut Lauffs. The school was now under the name "Benrather Schloß-Lyzeum mit Frauenoberschule", a fully developed modern-language grammar school with an attached women's upper school ; it was still an all-girls school. From 1951 to 1958 the name was again "Schloß-Schule Benrath". 1953 the school management was taken over by Mrs. Wagener.

Due to the growing number of pupils, the city finally built today's large school building on Brucknerstrasse in 1958; the building with the “dandelion” on the facade was designed by the architect Julius Schulte-Frohlinde , who also suggested naming it after Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , which was long controversial.

In 1970 the school officially became the "Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium". At the beginning of the 1970s, a new building with eight classrooms was built on the grounds of the school garden . Coeducation was introduced in the 1973/74 school year , which means that boys from now on also attended the school.

From 1975 to 1993 the grammar school was headed by Norbert Meckel, Miriam Meckel's father . The number of students continued to grow rapidly, which led to extensive renovations, the construction of a second gymnasium and the establishment of new scientific rooms.

During this time, the five-day week and French as a first foreign language were introduced.

From 1994 to 2010 Wulff Rehfus was the headmaster.

In 2006 the school was the main location for the movie Die Wilde Hühner ; In 2008, the film Die Wilden Hühner und das Leben was filmed there, which is based on the book Die wild Hühner auf Klassenfahrt .

In 2010 the school celebrated its 100th anniversary. As of this year, the grammar school, the last of the grammar schools in the south of Düsseldorf, has also been run all day . However, this only applies to those newly admitted from the 2010/2011 school year.

In 2019 an extension to the school was completed, which should create space for 200 more students. The old buildings were also partially modernized. The construction work cost around 10 million euros.

New building at the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium

principal

Period Headmaster Remarks
April 1910 - May 1911 Johannes Schmitz
May 1911 - April 1914 I. Hunter
April - September 1914 Johannes Derigs
September 1914 - November 1918 Elisabeth Fischer acting headmistress
December 1918 - October 1932 Johannes Derigs
October 1932 - March 1934 Elisabeth Fischer acting headmistress
April 1934 - July 1944 Karl Deck
September - October 1944 Feldkamp Head of the "Collective School Benrath"
September 1945- June 1952 Helmut Lauffs
April 1953 - May 1974 Gertrud Wagener
September 1974 - January 1975 Sabine Kreifelts acting headmistress
January 1975 - July 1993 Norbert Meckel
August 1993 - January 1994 Ferdinand Picker acting headmaster
February 1994 - January 2010 Wulff Rehfus
January 2010 - July 2016 Brigitte Vinke January – May 2010 as acting headmistress
July 2016 - August 2020 Barbara Maerker
Since August 2020 Michael Kleinheider acting headmaster

Known students

  • Lilli Pöttrich (* 1954), lawyer and GDR spy (Abitur 1973)
  • Miriam Meckel (* 1967), communication scientist, journalist and director at the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen (Abitur 1986)
  • Paul Falk (* 1996), actor, voice actor and musician (Abitur 2015)

School mission statement

“The three basic tasks of schools are upbringing, education and training. In order to be able to fulfill these tasks, the competence and quality of the teaching staff are required . The knowledge and ability that is to be imparted to the pupils in responsibility for the European tradition must be in the productive tension between tradition and innovation. For this purpose, the teacher must have, in addition to his specialist knowledge and his pedagogical - didactic skills, a humane competence, which can be determined as ability to care, reliability and credibility. The Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium is committed to these key concepts in an atmosphere of curiosity, cosmopolitanism, solidity and seriousness. "

- Annettegymnasium.de : school mission statement

Working groups

The Annette-Gymnasium is particularly known for its musical study groups . The (symphonic) school orchestra with around 40 members is directed by Tilman Gruhn and Kristina Palm, the wind orchestra is directed by Sebastian Schürger and Dirk Grün. They also lead an orchestra for the lower school. At the school there are 5 school choirs for the different grades , in which around 350 students sing together. All choirs are led by Ralph Erkelenz. Recordings of pieces by the choirs are broadcast on WDR 4 from time to time. The choirs performed several times in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf .

The school also has the following working groups :

There are also two school newspapers at Annette-Gymnasium .

Cooperations / partnerships

The Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium cooperates with the other Benrath high schools ( Schloß-Gymnasium , Gymnasium Koblenzer Straße ), especially in the area of secondary level II ( upper level ), in some cases also in the differentiation area in grades 8 and 9 .

Partnerships with the Benrath Castle and Park Foundation, the Tonhalle , the TSG Benrath , the Junior Management School and numerous industrial companies expand the range of courses outside the actual school.

Partner schools

  • Reunion Island

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c series - School portraits (3): Committed to the future in: Rheinische Post from November 5, 2008.
  2. ^ Homepage of the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium
  3. ↑ Shooting of the "Wild Chickens on a Class Trip": Flowers for the team around Veronica Ferres (PDF file)
  4. ↑ 26 schools from today all day in: Rheinische Post from August 30, 2010.
  5. ^ Antenne Düsseldorf: New building opened at the "Annette" grammar school. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  6. ^ Andrea Röhrig: New headmaster at Annette-Gymnasium: Barbara Maerker has left Benrath school. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
  7. ^ School mission statement ( Memento from October 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Working groups (AGs) | Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium. Retrieved on August 26, 2020 (German).