Fichtenberg High School
| Fichtenberg High School | |
|---|---|
 Main facade Rothenburgstrasse |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1904 |
| address |
Rothenburgstrasse 18 |
| place | Berlin-Steglitz |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '15 " N , 13 ° 18' 47" E |
| student | 768 (2016/2017) |
| Teachers | 75 (2016/2017) |
| management | Andreas Steiner |
| Website | fichtenberg-oberschule.net |
The Fichtenberg-Oberschule is a Berlin high school with around 770 students and is located on Rothenburgstrasse in Berlin-Steglitz . A special feature of the school is the integration of blind and visually impaired pupils, which has been carried out successfully since 1980. The Rothenburg elementary school has been located in the same building since October 21, 1953 , and from 1985 onwards it has also been offering lessons for disabled and non-disabled children, but in May 2013 it was moved to the neighboring building, the Kgl. Income Tax Assessment Commission , moved.
history
The school had its origins in the public secondary school for girls in Steglitz, which began teaching on April 19, 1904. In October 1912, the school moved from Plantagenstrasse to its own premises at Rothenburgstrasse 18 and, as Empress Auguste Victoria-Lyzeum, took young girls to university entrance. In 1924 it was named Auguste Viktoria School . At this time the first student self-government was established. Under the National Socialist ideology, which saw the goal of female upbringing in the future role of mother, science lessons were reduced in favor of war-preparatory subjects such as heredity and racial hygiene . Jewish teachers and pupils had to leave the school, which was now named Steglitzer Oberschule for Girls . In 1936 a school tennis department was founded. During the Second World War, the school building served as a military hospital and makeshift hospital, so that the remaining students were distributed to neighboring schools and some were sent to the countryside.
After the Second World War, classes began in various makeshift buildings until the students moved back into the old building on Rothenburgstrasse in 1953/1954. Since May 1951 run as the 4th OWZ (Oberschule Wissenschaftlicher Zweig) , the grammar school was given the current name Fichtenberg Oberschule in 1956 . The school has also been open to pupils since 1965. In 1965 a specialization in social sciences was established in the upper level . In 1980 the integration of visually impaired young people began. Since 1984 the school has been cooperating with the Paulsen Gymnasium 1200 meters away in the area of the upper level .
The complete renovation of the school was announced at the end of September 2016. The Senate has approved a total of 20.57 million euros for the renovation by 2020.
Fichtenberg named after him
The school is located in a traffic-calmed area at the foot of a park on Fichtenberg , the highest point in the Steglitz district at 68 meters. The mountain was called Kiefernberg until October 20, 1913 , around which the village of Stegelitze , which was first mentioned in 1242 and which became Steglitz, developed. The area around the mountain was considered a preferred residential area with a corresponding ambience in the 19th century and is still one of Berlin's elegant villa districts today. In addition, the Fichtenberg is the source of the historically and scenically interesting Bäke River, which rises not far from the school and, apart from two small remnants, rose in 1906 in the Teltow Canal .
Architecture and terrain
School grounds
The Fichtenberg High School, planned by Hans Heinrich Müller in the style of reform architecture, is directly adjacent to the neighboring Rothenburg School, with which the High School shares the site. The approximately 10,000 square meter property is bordered by the Rothenburg School and Zeunepromenade in the north, in the east by Rothenburgstrasse and in the south and west by residential buildings on the street Am Fichtenberg. The school building, the gym and other sports areas are located on the property.
School life
School profile
The Fichtenberg-Oberschule has the school profile social science profile . To strengthen this school profile, the school offers social science subjects such as social sciences, philosophy and psychology in all grades. There are also regular project days, panel discussions and lectures. Grade 7 students receive an additional hour of social learning.
Language sequence
From grade 7 onwards, the Fichtenberg-Oberschule offers French or Spanish as a second foreign language. From grade 8 onwards, Latin is also offered as a third foreign language as part of the compulsory elective subjects. From the 10th grade it is also possible to learn French or Spanish as a third foreign language.
Integration of visually impaired young people
The Fichtenberg-Oberschule has experience in the area of integration / inclusion of blind and visually impaired students: Since 1979, it has set itself the task of teaching visually impaired students in a joint class at the same time and leading them to the Abitur.
Over the years, the Fichtenberg Oberschule has developed its own concept of targeted and simultaneous integration. Assuming that all areas of knowledge are accessible to the blind and visually impaired, all students are taught the same lesson content. The visually impaired pupils are (apart from the subject sport and partly in the subject fine arts) integrated into the lessons and go through the school at the same time; they are graded like the other students. You take part in all class and course activities as well as study groups. There are only special features with regard to the teaching methods (additional individual lessons, especially in the natural sciences), the compensation for disadvantages (e.g. additional time required for classwork and exams) and the hours for special educational support by outpatient teachers.
Through the cooperation agreement concluded in 2008 with the Johann August Zeune School for the Blind , the informal cooperation that had existed for years was placed on a broader basis. There are also collaborations with partners outside of school as well as with the Paul and Charlotte Kniese School and the Brandenburg School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Technical aids are available for the visually impaired pupils (including screen readers with blackboard cameras, notebooks). In addition, teaching materials and textbooks are recorded digitally and, depending on the visual impairment, printed out in braille or in large print.
Today there are usually one or two visually impaired students in grades 7 to 13 - for example, in the 2009/2010 school year there were three blind and twelve visually impaired students. A total of 46 blind or visually impaired pupils took up classes in the 25 years between 1979 and 2004, of which twenty-three had passed the Abitur by early 2006 .
Student activities
Between 1924 and 1929 there were working groups and extracurricular activities for the first time, as the school now expected students to have “skills to find problems and methods and working methods to solve them”. In 1978 the school newspaper Wi (e) derhaken was founded, which commented on "independent school-specific and general political issues", but was closed in 1997. 1970 some traditions of the school were established, which are continued under the headmasters Marianne Büning (headmistress 1986–1998) and Hans-Gerd Prause (headmistress 1998–2007). These traditions include working groups such as B. the Peace Working Group founded in 1983 or various specialist working groups (e.g. chemistry working group, choir). Schoolchildren have been working on a new school newspaper since the beginning of 2010, the first issue appeared under the name KultIch - Die Zeitung der Fichtenberg-Oberschule in June 2010. At the beginning of 2011, KultIch was recognized as the best new school newspaper in Berlin at the award ceremony for the 8th Berlin School Newspaper Competition. Since the beginning of the 2015/2016 school year, the school newspaper Fichtenblatt has been published on a regular basis and operates an Internet presence.
Working groups
At the Fichtenberg-Oberschule there are working groups (short: AGs) that can be used after regular school time. The choir group consists of two age groups and performs twice a year. The Debattier-AG deals in general with making speeches, i.e. with facial expressions, gestures and articulation. The Film-AG deals with the production of its own film and all the necessary steps such as recording, post-processing and editing. The French Working Group is a voluntary extension of regular French lessons and deals with French culture and the language. The Kagera AG (fight against racism AG) was founded with the aim to combat racism and promote tolerance. Working groups in which the school participates directly are the technology working group, which is responsible for the school's event technology , the garden working group, which takes care of the school's own garden, and the media working group, which takes care of the school's media presence takes care of, the student library, which deals with the organization of the student-run library, and the school newspaper, which has existed since the beginning of the 2015/2016 school year and has been publishing the school newspaper since then.
Cooperations and public relations
Support association
The Friends of the Fichtenberg Oberschule is the Friends of the Fichtenberg Oberschule eV The members of the association consist of teachers, parents, students, alumni and friends of the Fichtenberg Oberschule, who regularly support school activities and projects financially.
Cooperation with other schools
The Fichtenberg-Oberschule cooperates with the neighboring Rothenburg-Schule in Rothenburgstraße 16/17 and with the Johann-August-Zeune-Schule for the blind in Rothenburgstraße 14. The cooperation of these three schools is characterized by a regular exchange of the school management, common school - and specialist conferences, visiting days, mutual use of space and media and the exchange of experiences on the inclusion of the visually impaired.
There is also a cooperation agreement with the Paulsen Gymnasium , which relates more to common subjects and a common profile.
Contact youth welfare
The school works together with the contact youth welfare service. The contact youth welfare service offers two times a week a consultation hour similar to pastoral care, in which the pupils can talk to a trained socio-educational specialist.
General association for the blind and visually impaired
The Fichtenberg Oberschule works with the General Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ABSV for short).
Personalities
student
- Hermine Villinger (1849–1917), writer
- Mathilde Drees (1862–1938), educator and politician, 1897–1899 participation in senior teacher courses (German and French)
- Hilde Benjamin (1902–1989), Justice Minister of the GDR
- Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916–2010), opinion researcher and founder of the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy
- Henry de Winter (born 1959), singer
- Andreas Kugler (* 1967), politician
literature
- Marianne Büning: Values are changing. Faces of a Berlin high school: Fichtenberg Oberschule 1904–2004 . Edition Hentrich, 2003, ISBN 3-89468-274-4 .
Web links
- Website of the Fichtenberg High School
- Entries in the Berlin State Monument List:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fichtenberg-Oberschule In: Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, accessed on December 5, 2016
- ↑ The complete renovation of the Fichtenberg High School in Steglitz-Zehlendorf is assured! District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, press release no.793, September 30, 2016, accessed on October 5, 2016.
- ↑ Berlin's best school newspaper awarded. Press release from the Senate Department for Education, Science and Research Berlin, January 26, 2011.
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Drees, Mathilde . In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 99 (Google Books) .