Refik Veseli School

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Refik Veseli School
Teacher's residence of the former 115th and 237th community school in Berlin at Skalitzer Strasse 55–56 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, now part of the complex of the Skalitzer Strasse secondary school. The building was built between 1886 and 1887 together with a gym and the class wing in the courtyard based on designs by Hermann Blankenstein. The complex is a listed building as a whole.
type of school Integrated secondary school
School number 02K08
founding 1886
address

Skalitzer Strasse 55–56

place Berlin-Kreuzberg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 29 '56 "  N , 13 ° 26' 8"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '56 "  N , 13 ° 26' 8"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 285 (2015/2016)
Teachers 50 + 7 trainees + 1 educator (2015/2016)
management Ulrike Becker
Website www.schule-skalitzer.de

The Refik-Veseli-Schule in Skalitzer Strasse in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin is an integrated secondary school with an upper level and has 380 students in the 2017/2018 school year. There were 285 students in the 2015/2016 school year. The Refik Veseli School sees itself as a democratic and inclusive school. The student body is heterogeneous. In the 7th year around 30% of the students have a recommendation for a grammar school. There are also children with special educational needs in each class. In the 7th and 8th year, around 30% of the students are of German origin.

The Refik-Veseli School is the only secondary school in the district that offers continuous learning for grades 7–13. It forms educational bridges with the Nürtingen, Fichtelgebirge and Heinrich-Zille elementary schools, so that the children can grow up and learn together with their friends from the first grade to the Abitur in the family atmosphere of a democratic school. The school enables the children to choose individual profiles, to learn the foreign languages ​​English, French, Spanish and Turkish and offers an interesting all-day program with a bound full-day. In cooperation with the Nürtingen School, there is a Montessori branch with a school experiment "Verbal assessment in grades 7 and 8", a mix of ages and a designed learning environment.

As a democratic school, the Refik Veseli School holds regular student meetings for the school community, which is prepared by students in terms of content and media. A team of moderators made up of schoolchildren leads through the event.

History until 2014

The educational establishment, once known as the 115th and 237th community school, was founded in 1886. The school was built in the style of academic historicism according to the plans of the Berlin architect Hermann Blankenstein (1829-1910), who planned over 120 school buildings and other public buildings.

The school was supposed to be demolished in the mid-1980s, but citizens' groups campaigned for it to be preserved. Finally, the facility including the school garden was renovated for 36 million DM and reopened in 1990. In 1995 the school became Berlin's first integrated secondary and secondary school. Since May 31, 2001, the school was named after the city councilor Eberhard Klein (1928–1992), who had campaigned for the maintenance of the school.

In 2010 the school was merged with the Carl Friedrich Zelter School to form an integrated secondary school . The new school was called the Skalitzer Straße secondary school .

Since October 8, 2014, the school has been named after the Righteous Among the Nations, Refik Veseli , a Muslim Albanian who, together with his family, hid two Jewish families with them during the German occupation of Albania. Refik Veseli stands for the ideal of acceptance and recognition of diversity, which the school has made its mission statement.

The students in the school years 2010-2013 are of international origin, around 80 percent are of Turkish and 15 percent of Arab descent. The countries of origin include Albania , the former Yugoslavia , Vietnam and African states. From December 2004 to 2013 this school no longer attended any pupils whose mother tongue was German .

Up until 2013, the special features of the school included workshops, Turkish as a second foreign language and support from social workers. In order to break the vicious circle of school segregation and to make the school more attractive again for parents interested in education, the school took part in the school turnaround program of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Senate School Administration from 2013. As part of the school development, which was made possible by this project, among other things, a gymnasium upper level was introduced in the 2017/18 school year, so that it is now possible to acquire the Abitur at this school as well .

Well-known students

  • Hatun Sürücü (1982–2005), German-Turkish woman who died in an honor killing
  • Bahar Al-Amood (* 2000), German YouTuber and high school graduate - triggered a mass brawl on March 22, 2019 on Alexanderplatz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Refik Veseli School (Integrated Secondary School). In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, September 19, 2008, accessed on June 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ Muslim rescuers in Albania Veseli and Fatima Veseli and their children Refik, Hamid and Xhemal Albania
  3. ↑ The brothers Hamid and Xhemal Veseli. In: Besa: A code of honor. Yad Vashem, accessed June 15, 2016 (autobiographical report).
  4. ↑ Sylvia Vogt: New beginning with a new name. Refik Veseli secondary school in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 8, 2014, accessed June 15, 2016 .