Brigittenauer Gymnasium
| Bundesgymnasium, Realgymnasium and Oberstufenrealgymnasium 20 Brigittenauer Gymnasium |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1875 |
| place | Vienna |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 13 '46 " N , 16 ° 22' 29" E |
| carrier | City vienna |
| Teachers | 135 |
| management | Arpad Chandler |
| Website | www.brigittenauer-gymnasium.at |
The Brigittenauer Gymnasium , Bundesgymnasium, Realgymnasium and Oberstufenrealgymnasium 20 ( BRGORG 20 ) is a general education secondary school in the 20th district of Brigittenau in Vienna .
School types
High school long form (5th - 12th grade)
From the first year of school, special classes are offered for competitive athletes . In the third grade, training begins in the grammar school branch (language lessons optionally in French or Latin ) or the secondary school branch (with lessons in geometric drawing and handicrafts ). In the upper level, the foreign language that was deselected in the lower level must be chosen in the secondary school branch.
Upper secondary school (8th-12th grade)
Four different branches of training are offered for graduates of the Hauptschule :
- Natural Sciences ("nwORG")
- Art and craft education (art and design ORG)
- Instrumental music, information and communication technology ("AudioORG")
- Upper secondary school for competitive athletes
Those students who for various reasons do not meet the admission criteria for the upper school are prepared for this in transition classes.
history
The Brigittenauer Gymnasium has existed since 1875 (then: kk Staats-Unterrealschule ), since 1900 at the Karajangasse and Unterbergergasse locations. After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich , the school housed a dungeon. All Jewish students and teachers were separated into "Jewish classes" for the first time in 1938. The following year the Jewish students were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Today there is a memorial for the victims of National Socialism in the basement of the school .
memorial
Since May 1999 there have been two exhibitions of contemporary history in the basement of the Brigittenauer Gymnasium on an area of 200 m²: the exhibition “When Schools Became Prisons”, designed by high school students, and “The Lost Island”, designed by the cultural association Action radius Vienna . The memorial was created on the initiative of these two institutions. The site has a historical reference - in the former elementary school in 1938, a Gestapo - prison furnished. The prisoners were cooped up by the hundreds in the classrooms until they were transported to the concentration camps - among them Bruno Kreisky and Fritz Grünbaum . One room in the exhibition is dedicated to this chapter of the school building. In the exhibition you can also see the results of a school project that is concerned with researching the life stories of the more than 350 formerly displaced Jewish students of the grammar school. A folder with 60 letters from all over the world testifies to the terrible days after the connection and the time afterwards for those affected. Other rooms deal with the domestic political conditions for the Anschluss and other dimensions of National Socialism. In the memorial you can also read notes that were written by elementary school children during the Nazi era and reflect typical propaganda content for the time.
The project shows ways in which pupils can be motivated to deal with National Socialism in relation to their residential area and their school. This lasting documentation of youth involvement was reported in many media, as the school was one of the first to grapple with the National Socialist past of its own school and the expulsion of its Jewish students.
On May 5, 2009, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the memorial, the grammar school was accepted into the group of UNESCO project schools.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ We offer. Upper secondary school. In: brigittenauer-gymnasium.at. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Felix Czeike : Brigittenau . In: Viennese district culture guide . tape 20 . Jugend und Volk, 1981, ISBN 978-3-7141-0540-7 , pp. 45 .
- ↑ Memorial plaque (entrance at Karajangasse 14–16). In: nachkriegsjustiz.at. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .