Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring
| BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring | |
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| type of school | Bundesrealgymnasium |
| School number | 201076 |
| founding | 1970 (as a school trial) 1977 (as a school) |
| address |
Stift-Viktring-Straße 25 |
| place | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee |
| state | Carinthia |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 35 '23 " N , 14 ° 16' 9" E |
| carrier | Federation |
| management | Gabriele Fenkart |
| Website | www.brg-viktring.at |
The BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring is the 2nd Bundesrealgymnasium in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and is located in the 13th Klagenfurt district of Viktring .
As a “Realgymnasium with special consideration of arts education”, the school occupies a special position created especially for it in the Austrian education system. Pupils can choose between a focus in musical education or in visual education (BE). There is also a real branch which particularly promotes scientific topics such as mathematics, German, English and computer science. It used to be reserved for children living in the 13th district of Klagenfurt, but it is now generally accessible. The school is attended by approx. 1000 students, a large number of whom come from the Carinthian region.
The school building is surrounded by a large park with ponds and many groups of trees. The area also houses the collegiate church of the former Cistercian monastery Viktring as well as the former prelature (i.e. the residence of the abbot at the time ) and the parish kindergarten Viktring.
Focus
Musical branch
The intensive music lessons, instrumental lessons and choir singing ensure a sound musical education. Music lessons and instrumental lessons are compulsory subjects, whereby the instrumental lessons do not have to be taken at school, but can also be attended at the state conservatory or at a state music school.
The distribution of school hours from 1st to 8th grade (corresponds to 5th to 12th grade) is as follows:
- 1st - 2nd grade: 3 hours of musical education per week, 2 hours of choir per week
- 3rd - 4th grade: 4 hours of musical education per week, 2 hours of choir per week
- 5th - 7th grade: 5 hours of musical education per week, 2 hours of choir per week
- 8th grade: 4 hours per week musical education, 2 hours per week choir
The following musical instruments are taught at the school: piano , cello , flute , recorder , guitar , saxophone , clarinet and violin
In order to be accepted into the musical branch, an aptitude test must be taken. Rhythmic, melodic, musically-creative tasks are set in this examination. Previous knowledge of playing a musical instrument is not a prerequisite.
Since 2011, in addition to the regular music classes, there have been so-called "M classes", which, in cooperation with the State Conservatory (in future: Gustav Mahler Private University), are designed to prepare students specifically for studying instruments / concert subjects or studying music education. The students in these classes can credit certain music theory sub-subjects for their university studies.
Artistic branch
The exact name of this school branch is " Realgymnasium with special consideration of the visual education". This branch offers students professional visual education at the expense of science subjects such as physics and biology.
The distribution of school hours from 1st to 8th grade (corresponds to 5th to 12th grade) is as follows:
- 1st - 2nd grades: 5 hours of artistic education per week
- 3rd - 4th grades: 6 hours of art education per week
- 5th - 7th grades: 7 hours of art education per week
- 8th grades: 6 hours of art education per week
Passing an aptitude test is also required for this school branch. The practical test is intended to give an idea of the applicant's ability to use simple graphic and painting techniques.
Realistic branch
The realistic branch is no longer reserved only for students who live in Klagenfurt's 13th district. The focus here is on natural sciences and computer science. Lessons in the lower-level classes are based on the concept of integrated free work. This means that the students learn independently for part of the weekly hours with the help of work plans. The underlying educational concept is Helen Parkhurst's Dalton Plan ,
- In the third grade, the students of the realistic branch have two hours instead of one biology lesson.
- In the 4th grade there is the combination subject of geometric drawing + computer science.
- In the 7th grade, students can choose between physics and biology or descriptive geometry as the main subject (school work subject).
Cross-focus options
In the fifth grade, students can choose between the languages Italian , French and Latin . Computer science has been taught using new media since the 2001 school year . Computer science is taught for two hours per week from third to fifth grade.
In the 5th grade, students can choose to take elective subjects that are taught in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. All subjects except gymnastics can be chosen.
Development of the school
After the Cistercian monastery Viktring was dissolved by Joseph II. In 1786, the brothers Christof and Johann Moro set up a cloth factory in the spacious building. The company was very successful, so that the owner family was raised to the nobility. In the 19th century, the Moros acted as patrons and thus gathered a loose group of cultural workers called Viktringer artists' circle . This group included the painters Markus Pernhart and Josef Willroider , but also the composer Thomas Koschat , who was born as the son of a worker at the cloth factory in Viktring. In 1967 the company finally went bankrupt. The Republic of Austria acquired the facility in 1970, but for several years it did not succeed in finding a satisfactory use for the listed buildings. In the summers of 1972 and 1973, the music forum founded by Friedrich Gulda took place in the building, but was then discontinued until the re-establishment in 1987.
During these years there was a lack of space in the schools in Klagenfurt, so that in 1976, at a meeting between representatives of the state school board, the Ministry of Education and the federal building administration, the idea arose of collecting so-called displaced (i.e. no longer in the school building) classes in the monastery building. Among these displaced classes were those of a school experiment that had taken place since 1970 as a "Realgymnasium for students of music" under the direction of Rudolf Scherzer at what was then Bundesgymnasium 2 (today's Europagymnasium Klagenfurt ). As part of this school experiment, music-gifted children were grouped together in their own classes, learning to play an instrument at the Carinthian State Conservatory became mandatory and the number of hours of music lessons was increased. Pupils who learned to play an instrument were no longer decried as “nerds”, the shared interests ensured a more comradely relationship between the pupils and an overall better working atmosphere in the classes. This was also noticeable in the generally better average grades of the music classes compared to regular high school classes. Thus, the number of registrations for the music classes, which were housed in the former teacher training institute in Klagenfurt due to the lack of other rooms, was well above their capacity every year. In 1976, the previous school attempt as a "Realgymnasium with special consideration of arts education" became an officially recognized special form in the Austrian educational system. The Landeschulinspektor Alfred Scherbantin suggested that these classes be accommodated together in Viktring. With the support of Governor Leopold Wagner , it was possible to adapt rooms for 10 classes in the monastery building within a year, so that school operations could begin in autumn 1977.
In line with the term “ musical ”, the school should focus on the fine arts as well as music, so that in 1977 classes with a focus on visual education were established. In order to cover the local need for a general secondary school, separate classes were set up with the timetable of a regular high school. This is how the three main focuses of the school that still exist today were created. Since the State Conservatory was soon overloaded with staff with the rapidly growing number of Viktring pupils, in-house teachers were provided for instrumental lessons in Viktring. In 1980 the BRG Viktring, which until then had been run as a branch of today's European High School, became an independent school with Rudolf Scherzer as director. Despite compulsory entrance exams, the number of pupils rose rapidly: in 1977/78 10 classes with 182 pupils had moved to Viktring, and since 1985/86 at least 900 pupils were taught in 32 classes. Numerous exhibitions by pupils of the artistic branch, concerts by pupils of the music classes and international performances by the school choir Juventus Musica up to Dushanbe contributed to the good reputation of the school. The international exchange and the Viktringer educational concept were awarded the Europtimus Prize of the European Educators' Association in 1991 .
In parallel to the growth of the school, renovation and adaptation work took place on the monastery building, which was concluded in 1999 with another festive opening of the school. The Musikforum Viktring has been held annually since 1987 and has established itself over the years as “one of the highest quality and most interesting festivals that Austria has to offer in summer”. In 2017 the school celebrated its 40th anniversary in Viktring.
principal
- 1980–1996: Rudolf Scherzer
- 1996–2013: Helmut Findeig
- Since 2013: Gabriele Fenkart
School library
The school library was founded in 1990 and moved to today's two-storey premises in 1992. The library has around 8500 media (books, magazines, CDs and DVDs). The inventory database has also been available online since the 2016/17 school year. The library sees itself not only as a teaching and information area, but also as a place for events, as a reading and leisure center.
Rose ball
The annual graduation ball of the BRG Viktring is the Klagenfurt Rose Ball. It has always taken place on Rose Monday since 1977. "GC - Gösseringer. Agency for creative communication. ”(Formerly The ECS Company) the light and sound design, the technology, the event organization, the catering consulting, the application and the marketing. The rose ball took place in the Konzerthaus Klagenfurt until 2006, and has been held in Messehalle 5 in Klagenfurt since 2007. The event is often referred to as the largest or most beautiful school ball in Carinthia.
literature
Marlies Findeig: Extension of the Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring, former Cistercian Abbey Viktring . Thesis. Vienna October 22, 2017, urn : nbn: at: at-ubtuw: 1-104359 ( tuwien.ac.at [PDF; 32.8 MB ; accessed on June 21, 2020]).
Web links
Source
- ↑ Rudolf Scherzer: The importance of the Viktring monastery as a contemporary cultural center - 15 years of the Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring . In: Festival committee 850 years of Viktring Abbey (ed.): Viktring Abbey 1142 - 1992 . Universitätsdruckerei, Klagenfurt 1992, p. 131 f .
- ↑ Rudolf Scherzer: The importance of the Viktring monastery as a contemporary cultural center - 15 years of the Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring . In: Festival committee 850 years of Viktring Abbey (ed.): Viktring Abbey 1142 - 1992 . Universitätsdruckerei, Klagenfurt 1992, p. 133 f .
- ↑ Rudolf Scherzer: The importance of the Viktring monastery as a contemporary cultural center - 15 years of the Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring . In: Festival committee 850 years of Viktring Abbey (ed.): Viktring Abbey 1142 - 1992 . Universitätsdruckerei, Klagenfurt 1992, p. 136 .
- ↑ Rudolf Scherzer: The importance of the Viktring monastery as a contemporary cultural center - 15 years of the Bundesrealgymnasium Klagenfurt-Viktring . In: Festival committee 850 years of Viktring Abbey (ed.): Viktring Abbey 1142 - 1992 . Universitätsdruckerei, Klagenfurt 1992, p. 138 .
- ↑ Ilse Schneider: Nationwide format. Music forum Viktring / Klagenfurt . In: Austrian music magazine . 63, issue 10. Hollitzer, Vienna October 2008, p. 64 f .
- ↑ Anniversary: 40 years of the Viktring high school. In: kaernten.orf.at. July 9, 2017, accessed June 21, 2020 .
- ↑ School libraries: Multimedia places of knowledge. In: kleinezeitung.at. February 12, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 (subscription).
- ↑ Alexander Graimann: Rosenball 2019: Graduation ball of the BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring in the Klagenfurt Exhibition Center. In: mein district.at. February 22, 2019, accessed June 21, 2020 .