German Olympics

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The German Olympiad was a nationwide, oral team competition for grade 9 students of all types of school. After a pilot phase in the 2006/2007 school year, the competition was open to all schools in the 2007/08 and 2008/09 school years. The aim of the competition was to strengthen language and social skills. The German Olympiad should offer a sporting framework for playing with the expressive possibilities of the German language, working creatively in groups and spontaneously developing ideas together. Most recently, 44,400 schoolchildren took part in the Olympics in 2009.

Organizers, sponsors and partners

The German Olympiad was a project of the German Language IDSP gGmbH initiative , which was under the patronage of the Federal President . The sponsors were the non-profit Hertie Foundation and the Goethe Institute . The Heinz Nixdorf Foundation and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft participated as partners . The Standing Conference supported the competition.

construction

Lesson series

The competition was structured in several stages and was prepared with a series of lessons for German. The series of lessons consisted of six to twelve lessons. The basis were teaching materials specially designed for the German Olympics , consisting of books for teachers, students and judges. The material was made available to schools free of charge. The content of the competition was closely based on the educational standards that the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs agreed for the subject of German.

competition

After the series of lessons had been carried out, a class winning team was determined. The winners of the class finals then competed against each other in the school finals. In the next stage, the best of the state competed against each other in the state competition. The winning teams from the federal states took part in the national competition. The national final took place at the end of April in the Deutsches Theater Berlin. It was rated in two categories. The “Hauptschule and Mittelschule” category comprised all types of school up to and including the secondary school leaving certificate, as well as the corresponding branches of comprehensive schools. In the “Gymnasium” category, high school students and the corresponding courses from comprehensive schools competed against each other. A team consisted of four students who competed in the five disciplines of rhyming, paraphrasing, storytelling, explaining and representing. The teams were given a task for each discipline that they had to work out within a preparation time of two minutes and present to the audience and the jury. The jury assessed the performance, gave the participants constructive feedback and determined the winners. Criteria that mattered in the evaluation were, for example, expressiveness and linguistic accuracy, cooperation in the team, ingenuity and coherence of the entire appearance.

procedure

The competition had three stages
  1. Lesson series with class and school competition (September to December)
  2. State competition with accompaniment by the entire class (January to March)
  3. National competition with training seminar for finalists and adventure weekend in Berlin (April)

Disciplines

Rhyme

Default : A sentence is given.

Task : The team has to alternate between two verses in sequence. The first verse must rhyme with the default, the second is the default for the next.

Example : "It starts on Saturday evening"

Rewrite

Default : ten words.

Task : Three team members have to rewrite the words together. You paraphrase the word you are looking for one after the other, each with a complete sentence. No (meaningful) expression that the previous speaker has already used may be repeated. After the three paraphrases, the fourth team member tries to name the word they are looking for. It only has one try for that.

Example : "stroller"

Tell

Default : An initial set and final set are predetermined.

Task : The team has to develop a story that starts with the given opening sentence and ends with the end sentence. The story continues in turn with one sentence.

Example : "The wind got stronger and stronger." / "I suddenly liked this music."

To explain

Default : A word is given that is not in the dictionary in this form, but is made up of known words or parts of known words.

Task : The team has to explain the meaning of the word and everything there is to know about the thing it describes. The statement should be divided into four sections, e.g. B. (1) meaning of the word, (2) history, (3) dangers, and (4) usefulness of the thing. Each team member takes on a section.

Example : "cloud pocket"

Represent

Guideline : A guideline for action that consists of one word and with which the scene could be overwritten like a headline (e.g. "Forget!"). A figure specification that is limited to the two main characters.

Task : The pupils improvise a scene based on the action and figure and play it on the stage.

Example : "Flown out!" / "Waiter and guest"

In all disciplines, the teams have a preparation time of two minutes. The teams also have two minutes each for the performance.

Prices

At each level of the competition, all participants received certificates and prizes for the entire class. The winning teams traveled with their class to the state finals. The finalists of the German Olympiad won a trip to the national finals with an adventure weekend for their entire class in Berlin. The national winners won a trip to a two-day seminar on a topic related to the German language. Victory in the national finals was achieved in 2009 by the student teams from the Wilhelms-Gymnasium Stuttgart and the Integrated Comprehensive School Peine.

The national winners in the 2007/08 school year were four female pupils from the Ursuline Realschule in Landshut in the secondary school / middle school qualification category. The Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium Falkensee won in the competition category of high schools.

National winners in the pilot phase of the German Olympiad in 2007 were:

the team from the Anne Frank School in Frankfurt am Main (category secondary school and secondary school leaving certificate) and the team from the Dilthey School in Wiesbaden (category high school).

participation

The German Olympiad was aimed at the ninth grade of all school types, but was also open to eighth grade. Registration took place through the teachers. In 2008/2009 over 44,400 pupils from around 600 schools took part.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ghst.de/unsere-projekte/abgeschlossen-projekte/

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