Beethoven High School (Berlin)

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Beethoven high school
Beethoven high school
type of school high school
founding 1908
address

Barbarastraße 9
12249 Berlin

place Berlin-Lankwitz
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 26 '0 "  N , 13 ° 20' 35"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '0 "  N , 13 ° 20' 35"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 895 (2016/17)
Teachers 95 (2016/17)
management Gunilla Neukirchen
Website www.beethoven-gymnasium.eu

The Beethoven-Gymnasium , also known as the Beethoven-Schule or formerly officially called the Beethoven-Oberschule , is the only gymnasium in the Berlin district of Lankwitz .

The school includes the listed four-wing main building with inner courtyard, the outer courtyard with school garden, a sports field and a gym as an auxiliary building.

history

As early as 1905, 16 citizens of Lankwitz asked for a school for girls to be set up in what was then Lankwitz. At Easter 1908, with the approval of the Royal Prussian Government, the school was opened as a nine-stage higher girls' school in Seydlitzstrasse in the building of the 2nd community school, which 38 girls joined. In 1910 130 students and 10 teachers were converted into a ten-level lyceum . The students were able to obtain a secondary school certificate after the tenth grade.

1913–1914, on the initiative of the first mayor of the community of Lankwitz, Rudolf Beyendorff , today's main building was built as a school building with an adjoining community festival hall according to the plans of the then Lankwitz community building councilor Fritz Freymüller . The completion and move into the new building with 285 girls could only take place in 1918 due to the First World War .

In 1926, on the initiative of the housewives' association Berlin-Lankwitz, a one-year women's school for thorough “vocational training for housewives and mothers and the continuation of all their activities” was attached to the Lyceum, along with a kindergarten, which was expanded in 1937 to a three-year women's secondary school.

In the 1930s, by 1935 at the latest, until 1948, the Lyzeum was called Auguste Sprengel School , named after the teacher Auguste Sprengel . In 1939 the first Abitur examination took place in the now full high school for girls with a domestic branch.

As a result of the bombing night in Lankwitz in August 1943, the school building was badly damaged. In 1945 school operations were resumed.

In 1948 it was renamed the 8th High School Scientific Branch , from 1950 boys were also taught at the school. The rebuilt old gymnasium was inaugurated in 1954. In the same year the modern-language-mathematical-scientific school with 356 students was renamed the Beethoven-Oberschule . The namesake is the musician Ludwig van Beethoven .

The rebuilt auditorium was inaugurated in 1959. Since the number of students had doubled since 1954, it was decided to expand the school in 1974. From 1976 to 1984 a branch in Dessauerstraße was used as an alternative accommodation, as the number of students rose to over 1,000.

In 2000 the school profile was changed. Since then, there have been increased music or French lessons in one class each in the seventh and eighth year. In the latter case, bilingual lessons take place from the ninth grade . Since 2004 there have also been increased English and mathematics classes in the seventh and eighth grades. Thus, each of the five classes in the seventh and eighth year has a special profile.

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The buildings

Main building (main entrance), view from the south (2014)

The main building

The main building faces Dillgesstrasse and is noticeable through its column entrance. This is the former Lankwitz community festival hall . The old gymnasium, the foyer, the auditorium and one of the music halls are located in this wing of the building. Opposite it is the main entrance on the courtyard side with the tower originally used for stargazing.

The building has an almost square inner courtyard, which is now surrounded on all sides by the school building. Originally the fourth side consisted of a colonnade, which had to give way to the new wing when the building was expanded in 1978. The new wing accommodates classrooms and chemistry rooms, the school café opened in 1989, the language laboratory and parts of the teachers' rooms. The school café was expanded from 2009 to 2010 through expansion into the neighboring language laboratory and a new extension in the inner courtyard and converted into a cafeteria with a kitchen in order to enable the provision of food as part of an all-day school.

The main building also houses the caretaker's office, the secretariat, the headmistress’s room, the deputy headmistress, the pedagogical coordinators, the teachers’s room and the classrooms and subject rooms.

The auditorium of the Beethoven-Gymnasium is used for numerous events. The biannual house music evenings (summer and winter music evenings) are part of it. In addition, the auditorium is used for performances by the students of the performing arts subjects and the members of the musical working group as well as the big band The Frogs and the orchestra. The schooling of the new 7th grade also takes place there. The musical and acting events are usually public.

The gyms

The school has two gyms: the old gym has been in the main building since the beginning; At the end of the 1970s, their capacity was no longer sufficient for the now around 1,000 students in some six trains. In 1979 the new gymnasium was completed, in which most of the sports courses take place today. Both gyms are also used by various sports clubs as training facilities.

Educational path

The Beethoven-Gymnasium begins with the seventh grade and ends according to the Berlin standard with the possibility of obtaining the Abitur in the twelfth grade (until 2012 in the 13th grade). Since 2000 there has been a music class and a French class. The students in these classes have an extra hour of music or French lessons per week. In 2004, the other two seventh grades also received an emphasis on English and mathematics. In 2011, as a consequence of the excessive demand in the course of the changed school place allocation procedure and in view of the capacities freed up by the shortening of the school time to twelve years, a fifth train with its own profile was started. Every seventh grade therefore has a special emphasis.

The educational path is two-course, the English and mathematics classes have English as their first foreign language and French as their second foreign language. The music class is divided into the first foreign language English and the first foreign language French. The French-oriented class has French as the first foreign language and English as the second foreign language; both start in the 8th grade with bilingual geography lessons.

From the 8th grade onwards it is possible to learn Latin or Spanish as a third foreign language as an optional subject.

subjects

In lower secondary level

In addition to the usual subjects, every seventh grade has a special emphasis. Furthermore, one hour of social learning is taught in every seventh grade . The lesson serves to reduce fears and tensions and promotes a constructive class and learning environment. In the eighth grade there is one hour of basic information technology education (ITG). From the ninth year onwards, there are elective courses. Religion is also offered as a school subject.

Elective courses

From the ninth year onwards, students have elective subjects. There it is possible to learn Latin as a third foreign language and complete with the Latinum. Furthermore, natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics), mathematics, art, music and Spanish are offered as compulsory electives.

In upper secondary level

In the upper level philosophy, computer science and performing games are offered as additional subjects. In addition, a basic course in English is offered, which deviates from the strong literature orientation and deals with natural and economic topics such as genetic food .

Another special feature is that music can be chosen as an advanced course.

Music, art, theater

Even if the Beethoven grammar school is not a special music grammar school, it still has a musical focus. This includes the emphasis on music from grade seven, the elective music, the profile course in music and the advanced course in music in the upper school level. The numerous working groups in music include the seventh grade choir, the eighth grade choir, the large choir, the upper school choir, orchestras 1 & 2, the orchestra, the big band The Frogs and the musical group. Every two years there is a musical tour of the choirs and orchestras to Pottenstein . The results will be presented in concerts in Pottenstein and two concerts, a secular one in the auditorium and a spiritual one in the nearby Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Berlin.

Art is offered as an elective from year nine. In the upper secondary level you can choose art as a profile or advanced course. The results of the students' work are exhibited regularly.

With the beginning of the second secondary level, it is possible to choose performing play (school theater) as a subject. Since 2008 it can be included in the Abitur as the 4th examination subject.

School partnerships

The Beethoven-Gymnasium has a partnership with schools in France ( Paris and Dijon ) and Sweden . There is an exchange in the 10th grade. For the English class there is an exchange to London or Amersham at the same time . In addition, the Beethoven-Gymnasium has a partnership with a school in Israel . The exchange is currently suspended due to the political unrest in Israel.

Operating experience

Every year in the last few weeks before the summer vacation, the Beethoven-Gymnasium conducts a three-week internship for the tenth grade.

Working groups and courses

The Beethoven-Gymnasium offers a variety of study groups and courses:

7th grade choir, 8th grade choir, large choir, high school choir, musical, pre-orchestra 1 & 2, orchestra, big band, theater technology (BOSTAG), artistic design, journalism (school newspaper), mediation, natural sciences, garden (school garden) ; English (debating club and preparation for the Cambridge test), business English, DELF, Italian advanced level (for beginners and advanced), basketball , unicycling , football (separate for boys and girls), rowing , chess , self-defense, volleyball , Africa, Consumer protection and first aid.

The school also works closely with sports clubs (Steglitzer Sport Club Südwest 1947 eV Berlin; Basketball Berlin Süd eV).

In addition to normal physical education, the gyms are open for so-called break sports during the breaks.

additional

The school takes part in the educational school development project , which is essentially about empowering students to work independently and responsibly, both alone and in groups.

The school participates in a federal-state project for sustainable learning, which is scientifically supported by the Free University. In this context, the eleventh grades shape the sustainable urban development project . With these activities, the school tries to react to the results of the PISA study.

As part of the project days , the dance group The Young Americans visited the school for a three-day workshop in dance, singing and improvisation.

The school is also involved in the TuSch project (theater and school). TuSch is a project by JugendKulturService GmbH in cooperation with the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Sport. The patron is the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit . The school works together with the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and the Theater des Westens .

The Beethoven-Gymnasium participates with a large choir, high school choir and orchestra in the Steglitz Schools Christmas music in the Matthäuskirche . The event is the oldest of its kind in Berlin.

Prominent graduates

Prominent teachers

Berlin memorial plaque for Elisabeth Schmitz on the building in Barbarastraße
  • Reinhart Behr (1928–2003), member of the Berlin House of Representatives (alternative list), non-fiction author
  • Elisabeth Schmitz (1893–1977), resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Lorenz Weinrich (* 1929), historian

literature

  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Beethoven School Berlin. Beethoven-Oberschule, self-published, Berlin 2009.

Web links

Commons : Beethoven-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beethoven-Gymnasium - 06Y06 . In: school directory . Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, accessed on June 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ School portrait. Schoolchildren . Berlin.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ School portrait. School staff . Berlin.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Paul Hiller: Chronik Lankwitz (= preprint . Vol. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , pp. 81–84.
  5. ↑ See also various literature on Elisabeth Schmitz , who was transferred to the Auguste Sprengel School in Berlin-Lankwitz in 1935.
  6. ↑ The internship in the 10th grade . ( Memento from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Beethoven-Gymnasium, accessed on June 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Information on the College de France website , accessed on October 23, 2019