Frida Levy Comprehensive School

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Frida Levy Comprehensive School
Frieda Levy Essen.jpg
type of school Comprehensive school
School number 189080
founding 1986
address

Varnhorststrasse 2

place eat
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 27 '31 "  N , 7 ° 1' 6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '31 "  N , 7 ° 1' 6"  E
carrier City of Essen
student about 1,200
management Berthold Kuhl
Website www.frida-levy-habenschule.de

The Frida Levy Comprehensive School is a comprehensive school with two locations in Essen . The former Humboldt Gymnasium , which later became the comprehensive school in Essen-Mitte , was renamed in 2001 in memory of the Jewish women's rights activist Frida Levy .

Focus

Individual support

On April 7th, 2008, the Frida Levy Comprehensive School was awarded the “Seal of Approval for Individual Support” as the first comprehensive school in Essen by the NRW Ministry of Education. The comprehensive school in the city center of Essen applied for this certification with its extensive funding offers at the end of last year and subjected it to a detailed examination by the seal of approval commission in February. Whether bilingual English, musical and artistic education, individual support programs, support for adolescents who learn both well and less, or individual career preparation: the Frida Levy Comprehensive School has always been a pioneer in innovative school development since it was founded. The school, named after Frida Levy (1881–1942), a courageous Jewish fellow citizen of Essen, also impressed the school ministry with its offer: “The school is able to systematically implement individual support in all four areas of activity and to pass on experiences accordingly. Particularly noteworthy is the consensus in the teaching staff, with the pupils and their parents, with whom the concept of individual support, which has been the guiding principle for the school since it was founded, was developed. "

Music class

The Frida Levy Comprehensive School offers a music class from the 5th year on, in which the students learn an instrument depending on their talents and interests.

English bilingual

The bilingual English language branch is a special offer for linguistically gifted students. Bilingual lessons increasingly strive for independent language and action skills in intercultural contexts. In grades 5 and 6, two additional hours of English are given there. In grade 7, bilingual learning begins in the subject of biconomics (bilingual economics) and in grade 9 in cultural studies. At the end of grade 10, the students take a final exam at the Berlitz School and receive a final certificate, which, like the external certificate from the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which can be obtained in upper secondary level , represents an additional qualification on the job market for applications .

Vocational Information Office (BIB)

The Vocational Information Office (BIB), which is managed by a colleague, is available to all students from grade 8. Information and individual help in finding the right apprenticeship or the right course of study are the main focuses of BIB. In addition, the BIB is the switching and organization point for all measures carried out for career choice orientation: Company internships for all students in grades 9 and in the upper secondary school. The school works closely with the employment office's career advisors, organizes visits to the career information center and universities.

Music, Art, and Performing Games

As part of the compulsory elective differentiation, in addition to the traditional WP subjects at comprehensive schools, the subjects music, art and performing games are offered as independent main subjects. Didactic-methodical teaching principle in the field of music-aesthetic education is action-oriented teaching: Practical music-making, drama, learning with all your senses, sharpening your perception, and implementing thoughts and ideas creatively are the focus here.

School without racism - school with courage

The Frida Levy Comprehensive School has been part of the nationwide network School without Racism - School with Courage since December 22, 2010 . In around 1,000 schools, more than 750,000 students advocate tolerance and democratic coexistence. This makes it the largest school network in Germany. The title is not an award for work that has already been done, but a commitment for the present and the future: With their signatures, the students have not only signed the project's principles of action. Rather, they have committed themselves to a non-violent school culture and to taking up regular projects and campaigns against all forms of discrimination. You will take active action against racism and in this way want to make a contribution to a non-violent, democratic society. The school sponsor of the Frida Levy Comprehensive School is the Essen cabaret artist Herbert Knebel (alias Uwe Lyko). The membership of the Frida Levy Comprehensive School in the “School without Racism - School with Courage” network goes back to an initiative by the student council (FRIDA-SV).

building

The structure of the school building from the 1950s is considered to be in dire need of renovation, although it only meets the requirements of a high-performance school building to a limited extent.

According to the council resolution of the city of Essen, based on a feasibility study , the aim is to build a new Frida Levy comprehensive school at the existing main location in Varnhorststrasse and on the neighboring property on Hollestrasse, the area of ​​the old adult education center , which was demolished in 2014 .

history

The Frida Levy Comprehensive School goes back to the Humboldt School, a municipal high school ('for boys' until 1972), which was named after the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and his brother, the educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1767). 1835) was named. It existed for exactly 130 years from 1864 to 1994.

The "Städtische Oberrealschule" stood until 1943 on Steeler Strasse in the place of today's main pool. The current building was built jointly by the architects Rolf Allerkamp and Wilhelm Eggeling from 1953 to 1955 and is considered one of the most interesting post-war school buildings in Essen due to some architectural and design features (staircase, break hall, auditorium). The Essener Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ, Karl Sabel, November 3, 1955) described this at the inauguration: “The staircase spirals up to the left, gaining the first floor through a circular incision, which is shielded on the right by a semicircular grid made of narrow bars . And again the spiral approach, the shielding semicircle and so in a single playful oscillation up to the top floor. This is extremely easy, and the easy is elegantly varied by overlapping parts of the circle, as if a mathematical task had been consolidated into architecture. The slender grille borders the picture, the underside of the stairs is accentuated by a profile, and at the top a ceiling patterned with gray and white-gray stripes absorbs the circling vibration. The round staircase will not only be an object of aesthetic pleasure, the physics lesson will also benefit from it. A pendulum is suspended from the ceiling to the ground floor, which, based on experiments by the French physicist Leon Foucault, shows the rotation of the earth. Such pendulums need a length of 18 meters. We don't know of any school building with such a room, and so the Humboldt School will be the only one with a Foucault pendulum far and wide. "

Stumbling stone in memory of Frida Levy in the playground

The conversion to the comprehensive school in Essen-Mitte began in 1986 and was completed in 1994. In 1995 the first year of the comprehensive school graduated from high school.

In April 2000 an initiative for a new naming took place, in which teachers, parents and pupils of the comprehensive school were involved. In September 2001, the school was renamed the Frida Levy Comprehensive School after the Jewish citizen of Essen Frida Levy († 1942 in the Riga ghetto ) . On June 27, 2005, a stumbling block was laid in memory of Frida Levy as a victim of the Holocaust . On September 8th and 9th, 2006 the school celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Well-known former students

The Humboldt Gymnasium was attended by personalities such as

literature

  • Frida Levy Comprehensive School (Ed.): Frida Levy December 18, 1881 to 1942. 2nd edition, Klartext-Verlag , Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-031-4
  • Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Humboldt School , Essen 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( http://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org )
  2. ↑ ( Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frida-levy-habenschule.de
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frida-levy-habenschule.de
  4. ↑ Kick-off event for the new Frida Levy Comprehensive School , press release from the City of Essen from January 24, 2020