Sibling Prenski School

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Sibling Prenski School
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type of school integrated comprehensive school
with upper level
founding 1989
address

Travemünder Allee 5a

place Lübeck
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 52 '39 "  N , 10 ° 41' 36"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '39 "  N , 10 ° 41' 36"  E
carrier Hanseatic City of Lübeck
student around 830
management Kai Kuchenbecker
Website www.prenski.de

The Geschwister-Prenski-Schule , Geschwister-Prenski-Gesamtschule or GPS for short , is an integrated comprehensive school founded in 1989 . It is the first integrated comprehensive school in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Origin of name

The name of the school, which it gave itself in 1994, is reminiscent of the Prenski siblings , who were deported to a concentration camp in Riga in 1941 and murdered there in 1942, probably in the Biķernieki forest . A working group from the 8th year of the comprehensive school had researched the fate of deported Jewish children from Lübeck in 1993 and discovered the traces of the Prenski siblings. The oldest sister of the Prenski children, who was still living in Israel at that time, could be located; she agreed to the naming of the Lübeck school.

For the 25th anniversary of the school, students first developed a play and, in collaboration with the composer Arnold Nevolovitsch, the musical prenski_live , which commemorates the namesake of the school and its fate. It was premiered at the 2013 anniversary and performed again in October 2014 during a guest performance in the Jewish community of Duisburg .

  • Max Prenski (* 1924)

  • Martin Prenski (* 1930)

  • Margot Prenski (* 1931)

history

When, after the SPD's victory in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1988, the comprehensive school was anchored as a regular school in the Schleswig-Holstein School Act, a comprehensive school was also to be founded in Lübeck. Plans to convert an already existing grammar school met with determined opposition from the schools concerned. The school was therefore initially temporarily housed on Marli when it was founded in 1989. The proposal of the administration to accommodate them in the Otto Anthes schools (elementary and secondary school as well as secondary school) built in 1960 at Gertrudenkirchhof near Burgfeld and to let these schools run out also led to violent protests, which Die Zeit led to a school struggle Lübeck described. However, the citizenship decided on December 13, 1990 to follow the proposal of the administration. A contrast strained public petition led to a referendum on April 21, 1991, but in which the minimum number of voters was not reached, and the Comprehensive School took over the premises of the Otto Anthes school.

The nationwide traveling exhibition Pöppendorf instead of Palestine , documented by Jan Henrik Fahlbusch, emerged in 1999 from the schoolwork of the Geschwister-Prenski-Schule , with which the history of the Pöppendorf camp in Lübeck-Kücknitz as the destination of Operation Oasis in 1947 was processed. The exhibition ran for over ten years in various German cities and received international press attention.

In mid-November 2009, a 14-year-old pupil from the comprehensive school announced a killing spree for November 16, 2009 with a wall graffiti, which led to a large-scale police operation. In 2010, Federal President Horst Köhler visited social institutions in Lübeck and Bad Segeberg , "which are concerned with the cohesion of society", "more warmth", "fewer elbows" and "attention", and observed a teaching unit in a seventh grade the Geschwister-Prenski-Schule, in which mentally handicapped students took part in the normal regular classes. In 2014, Education Minister Waltraud Wende recognized the comprehensive school as School of the Year in Schleswig-Holstein for “educationally innovative, outstanding work” .

Integration and inclusion

At the Geschwister-Prenski-Schule, integration and inclusion are very important. The motto "One school for everyone" applies. The first integration class for children with and without disabilities was set up as early as 1991 and has been continued for every grade level since then. The GPS is the only school in Lübeck with an upper secondary level that does not specify the severity of the disabilities. All integration classes are supervised by two teachers and special educators are employed if necessary. In the integration classes, up to four pupils with a wide variety of disabilities and degrees of disability are taught and supported.

In grades six to nine, career orientation projects are offered. These are partly carried out within the school or with a vocational training agency of a trade school or a workshop for the disabled.

Awards

  • 2014 School of the Year in Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2017 Jakob Muth Prize for Integration, awarded by the Bertelsmann Foundation , the German UNESCO Commission and the Federal Government Commissioner

Publications

  • Heidemarie Kugler-Weiemann, Sabine Seidensticker, Brigitte Söllner-Krüger: Traces of the Prenski siblings, A school lives by its name , Prenski sibling school, Lübeck integrated comprehensive school, brochure 2006
  • Richard J. Yashek: The Story of My Life; how a twelve-year-old Jewish boy from Lübeck and Bad Schwartau survived the concentration camps. From the American. by Martin Harnisch, school association of the Geschwister-Prenski-Schule, Lübeck 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the school, information on the number of students , accessed on August 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ See also the list of stumbling blocks in Lübeck
  3. ^ School name - Sibling Prenski School. In: www.prenski.de. Retrieved August 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Zlatan Alihodzic: Joe, Joseph and Margot: young people from Lübeck lead a musical about the namesake of sibling Prenski-school , Jewish General , October 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Student protests against comprehensive school: Uprising for tradition , Die Zeit of January 6, 1989, accessed on August 16, 2016
  6. ↑ Vote YES! , The time of April 19, 1991, retrieved on August 16, 2016
  7. ^ Citizens' petitions and referendums in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , accessed on August 16, 2016
  8. ^ Announcement of the renewed exhibition in the synagogue (Lübeck) in 2011 at www.stolpersteine.de
  9. ↑ Lübeck city newspaper from June 26, 2001
  10. ^ A student from Lübeck threatened to run amok , shz.de, November 14, 2009. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  11. ^ Fritz Friedebold: Horst Köhler wants to "jerk" a little , Welt Online , March 28, 2010, accessed on August 15, 2016
  12. ↑ civics. In: Archive RTL Regional . Retrieved August 15, 2016 .
  13. ^ Geschwister-Prenski-Schule: Lübeck School is “School of the Year” , shz.de, June 16, 2014. Accessed on August 16, 2016.
  14. ^ Homepage of the school, integration and inclusion , accessed on August 17, 2016
  15. ↑ Kai Dordowsky: Sibling Prenski-school receives inclusion price. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . June 14, 2017, p. 10.