German Goethe College Bucharest

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The German Goethe-Kolleg Bucharest ( Romanian Colegiul German Goethe ; between 1990 and 2002 Hermann Oberth Gymnasium , Romanian Liceul Hermann Oberth ) is a gymnasium in the center of Bucharest . It is located near the Piața Romană and bears the name of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . It is a school of the German minority in Bucharest, administered by the Ministry of Education and Research of Romania (Romanian Ministerul Educației și Cercetării - MECTS). The German Goethe-Kolleg Bucharest is next to school no. 11, Ion Heliade Rădulescu , the most sought-after school in Bucharest.

history

In 1855 the German School Bucharest was divided into a girls 'and a boys' school. In the same year, a school building was erected on Lutherische Strasse, in the two wings of which girls and boys were taught separately. Two years later the building was expanded with funds from the Ministry of Culture.

Between 1907 and 1910 the number of pupils at the German School Bucharest rose to 2,000. A quarter of them were of German descent, the others came from families with a Romanian or other national background, but all with the desire to learn the German language.

From 1948, two high school classes were added to the school facility. The school received state recognition and left the care of the Lutheran congregation.

In 1956 it was fully integrated into the Romanian school system. The German School Bucharest was named "School No. 21" and later "Lyceum No. 21". When the school building next to the Protestant church was demolished in 1958, the company moved to Nuferilorstrasse and in 1973 a new building was moved into in Calea Dorobanți.

In 1976, the German School in Bucharest was renamed the “Real-humanistic Lyceum No. 3”, only to be given a new name in the following year: “Lyceum for Mathematics and Physics No. 6”.

In 1982 there was a new name and profile change: “Industrial Lyceum No. 34” (a kind of secondary school). This gradation of the German School in Bucharest was probably mainly due to the fact that in the meantime both a large part of the German-born teachers and the vast majority of the German-born population had left Romania. So it was easy for the totalitarian political system to demote an institution recognized as an elite school.

It is thanks to the events of 1989 that the German School Bucharest regained its profile. In 1990 it was named "Theoretical High School Hermann Oberth" and is now one of the most respected educational institutions in the Romanian capital. The namesake, Hermann Oberth , from Hermannstadt (Sibiu) has laid an essential foundation for the development of space travel with his research work in the field of astronomy . The German school from Bucharest is currently called "Deutsches Goethe-Kolleg" ( Romanian Colegiul German Goethe ).

Lessons at the Goethe College

The German Goethe-Kolleg is the school of the German minority in Bucharest and is subordinate to the Romanian Ministry for Education, Research and Youth. German is the language of instruction. The linguistic aptitude of the future pupils is determined by a test in which the examinees must achieve a sufficient number of points.

After passing the exam, the students are assigned to a German-speaking primary school teacher. All subjects are taught in German. As a result, at the end of elementary school, the pupils have mastered the basics of technical language in all areas. From the 3rd grade onwards, English is taught as the first foreign language.

From the 5th grade, like at any other school in Romania, each subject is taught by a specially trained teacher. Depending on the possibility, some subjects are taught by teachers from Germany.

School profile and language certificates

The German Goethe-Kolleg offers all eighth graders the opportunity to continue their education in the German-speaking area at a theoretical lyceum. The choice of classes is very large, so that future students can choose one of the following branches:

  • for the mathematics and natural sciences, in a class with a focus on mathematics and computer science
  • for the linguistic area, in a class with a focus on humanities and foreign languages
  • for the classes of the German Special Department (DAS). The German department has a total of four grade levels and eight classes. Since 2008 there are two possible directions in the Bucharest special department. The B classes are oriented towards the social sciences, while the C classes are mathematics and computer science classes.

Although each of these areas aims at a specific degree, all graduates also leave the Lyceum with a broad general education.

At the end of grade 12, the students receive a certificate of competence for the German language from the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth in Romania - and they receive the German language diploma (level I or II) from the Conference of Ministers of Education.

Well-known graduates

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Goethe College Bucharest. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ School profile. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Lessons at the Goethe College. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ School profile and language certificates. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .

Coordinates: 44 ° 26 '57.9 "  N , 26 ° 5' 50.5"  E