Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium

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Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium
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type of school high school
School number 02Y04
founding 1906
address

Frankfurter Allee 6a

place Berlin-Friedrichshain
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '53 "  N , 13 ° 27' 21"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '53 "  N , 13 ° 27' 21"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 553 (2018/2019)
Teachers 45 + 9 trainees (2018/2019)
management Meike Klee
Website haendelgym.de

The Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium is a grammar school in Berlin which, as a school with a special pedagogical character, focuses on music. The high school is located in Friedrichshain .

history

Foundation, relocation to Friedrichshain and wartime (1906–1945)

In 1906, in Berlin-Kreuzberg , the municipal college for the secondary school was opened at Fürbringer Str. 33/34 . In 1924/25 the school was relocated to Friedrichshain by decision of the municipal authorities. A lyceum was attached, creating the first higher girls' school in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The school moved into the 1907/08 building of the community dual school at Frankfurter Allee 36/37. In 1934 the high school section of the school was attached to the Gray Monastery high school .

In 1935 the school was named after the composer Handel in the Georg Friedrich Handel School. The secondary school college was dismantled in the school year 1939/1940 in favor of efforts on the war economy, the last time girls received their Abitur in 1940. From 1940 there was only enough heating to prevent the pipes from freezing. The western wing, roof and heating were destroyed by bombs, so that lessons could no longer take place in the cold and rain.

Post-war period and GDR (1945–1990)

In June 1945 the occupying powers ordered that schooling be resumed in Berlin.

In 1968 the two extended secondary schools (EOS), the Handel secondary school and the Andreas secondary school, were merged. The resulting EOS "Georg Friedrich Händel" remained in the building of the Handel High School as a special school of musical direction. When the reorganization took place in 1968, most of the students came from the Edgar-André-Oberschule (today Erich-Fried-Gymnasium), where the children's choir of the Berliner Rundfunk , led by Ilse and Hans Naumilkat, had been based until then .

Since reunification (1991–)

The special school for music was renamed the 4th Friedrichshain grammar school in 1991 , as all schools in East Berlin lost their names according to the ordinance. However, the music education with the many ensembles and orchestras remained.

In 2006 the school celebrated its 100th anniversary with performances of Carmina Burana and Dettinger Te Deum by school ensembles in the Konzerthaus on Gendarmenmarkt . In the same year the school was given the status of a school with a special educational focus .

Profile and selection process

The school is a two-class music high school that begins with grade 5. This means that it is a "basic grammar school", at many Berlin grammar schools the transition from elementary school to secondary school does not take place until grade 7. In 2012/2013, an additional train starting with the seventh grade was set up at the school.

The musical focus is shown in the reinforcement of the subject of music. In addition, pupils must undertake to participate in the school's ensembles, choirs and orchestras. This ensemble work usually comprises four hours a week. Individual voice training or instrumental lessons are compulsory. In the upper level of the gymnasium, young people have to choose music as an advanced course subject.

In order to be accepted into school, the children must take a music entrance test. In addition, in the subjects of German, mathematics, general science and music, at least good results are required in their previous school. If there are more applicants than places in a year, the selection is based on musical qualifications.

school-building

The current building of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium was designed by a group under the direction of the city planning officer Ludwig Hoffmann as a community dual school and built in 1907/08. In addition to Hoffmann, the Municipal Building Councilors Matzdorff and Herold as well as the architects Häberer and Gerecke participated . The sculptures were made by Josef Rauch . The new building consisted of the four-storey school building in the shape of a horseshoe, a gym and a residential building for teachers. The school building itself is barely visible from the surrounding streets, as it stands in the center of the square of Frankfurter Allee , Warschauer Straße , Boxhagener Straße and Niederbarnimstraße , and is covered by their block development. Since only the teacher's house on Frankfurter Allee was visible, its natural stone facade with sculptures and capitals in relief was executed in a representative manner. Both the gymnasium and the teachers' house were destroyed in the war or fell victim to the construction of the new Stalinallee . The right (western) wing of the school building was also destroyed.

In 1998/1999 a music pavilion was built. In 2010/2011 a three-storey extension was added to the schoolhouse, in which there are cabinets for science lessons. At the back of the school building there is now the school yard, through which the new sports hall and music pavilion are accessible. From 2015 to 2017 an extension (“Musikaula”) was built to the right (west) of the main building, which accommodates a concert hall for up to 350 listeners.

To the left (east) of the school there is a type school building built in 1969 , which was used by EOS "Heinrich Hertz" , a special school in mathematics. This school moved away in 1993 and today the neighboring building is used by the Frankfurter Allee district central library .

Famous pepole

student

According to the school year:

Teacher and musical director

  • Knut Andreas (* 1979), conductor and musicologist, has been leading the Berlin Youth Symphony Orchestra, which is based at the Handel High School, since 2015.
  • Hans Naumilkat (1919–1994), composer and music educator, directed the Etkar André ensemble at the EOS "Georg Friedrich Händel" from 1968 to 1974
  • Manfred Roost (* 1929), conductor and choir director, founded the Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin in 1955, and in 1974 took over the artistic direction of the choirs at the Handel School

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium on the website of the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family of Berlin
  2. ↑ a b c d e school chronicle on the website of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium
  3. ↑ a b c d Short report on the inspection of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Oberschule, published on July 1, 2013. Available on the website of the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family
  4. ^ Ludwig Hoffmann (1852–1932): Community dual school in Frankfurter Allee, Berlin. in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin In: Neubauten der Stadt Berlin, Vol. IX, Wasmuth, Berlin 1910, S. XV.
  5. ^ Ludwig Hoffmann (1852–1932): Community dual school in Frankfurter Allee, Berlin. in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin In: Neubauten der Stadt Berlin, Vol. IX, Wasmuth, Berlin 1910, H. 29.
  6. ↑ New construction of a concert hall for the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Gymnasium in Berlin Friedrichshain on the website of the architects Numrich Albrecht Klumpp.
  7. ↑ Thomas Frey: The "District Philharmonic": Concert hall of the Handel High School inaugurated . In: Berlin Week of March 29, 2017.
  8. ↑ Provenance in production - Marianne Birthler's school turned 100 years old . In: Der Tagesspiegel from March 14, 2006.