Goethe-Gymnasium Burgas
| Goethe high school | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1960 |
| place | Burgas |
| Oblast | Burgas |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 30 '50 " N , 27 ° 28' 10" E |
| student | 620 (2008) |
| Teachers | 57 (2008) |
| Website | www.neg-goethe.org |
The Goethe-Gymnasium in Burgas , Bulgaria is a German school abroad that was opened in 1960 as a German-speaking grammar school .
German education in Burgas
The first German school abroad was opened in Burgas in 1921 and was called the Pestalozzi School . It was located on Alexandar Batemberg-Str. 28 ⊙ , in today's old town center in the immediate vicinity of the sea garden. The building is still preserved today and has been declared a monument. In the school year 1930/1931 170 students under 5 teachers studied in the grammar school. 143 of the students were Bulgarians, the remaining Greeks, Turks and others. In 1930/1931 their number grew to 231 and the number of teachers to 7, which revealed the need for new premises. In 1935 the school moved into a three-story building in the square between Sredna gora , Oborishte and Kiril and Metodij streets in the old town of Burgas ⊙ . Along with the schools in Russe , Sofia , Varna and Plovdiv, it was one of the five German schools recognized in Bulgaria.
On June 19, 1940, an "Agreement between the German Reich and the Tsarist Empire of Bulgaria on cooperation in the field of culture, including education" was concluded. Part II of this agreement regulates the statute of German schools in Bulgaria. Article 34 expressly states that the activities of the German schools will henceforth be under the control of the Ministry of Education - especially when complying with Bulgarian laws, regulations and special regulations, because these are recognized as being on a par with Bulgarian schools. Schoolchildren are entitled to the same discount on train travel as Bulgarian schoolchildren. All teaching materials, sports equipment, pictures and library stocks that are imported from Germany are exempt from customs duties and taxes. The agreement also emphasized the role of Bulgarian teachers by specifically stating that the following subjects should be taught in the Bulgarian language by Bulgarian teachers: Orthodox religion, Roman Catholic religion (for Bulgarians), Bulgarian language and literature, Bulgarian history and geography and civil teaching. It was also stated in the resolution to develop the five German schools in Bulgaria into complete secondary schools.
The high school was closed when the communists came to power . and later turned into a hospital. The hospital was popularly known as the German Hospital .
In 1960 a German school was opened again in Burgas in the new Sorniza district . Until 1991 the school was named after Wilhelm Pieck and was then named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . German teachers, including writers, taught at the school. One of them was Werner Heiduczek , who dedicated the novel Farewell to the Angels to the students .
In 2008, around 620 pupils were taught in five years with six classes each, who had passed an entrance examination in Bulgarian or mathematics after completing the seventh grade. They were prepared for the Bulgarian Abitur by 57 teachers, 21 teachers taught German, and three more taught German-speaking subjects in history, geography, biology and chemistry. The Goethe-Gymnasium-Burgas has been an examination center for the German language diploma level II of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1994 .
Web links
- Website of the Goethe-Gymnasium Burgas. (Bulgarian, German).
- History of the German School in Burgas. (Bulgarian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolay Tschakarov: The history of the German school in Russe 1883-1944 . ( Memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 944 kB).
- ↑ Burneva / Murdsheva: German as a foreign language (s) at Bulgarian universities in Hiltraud Casper-Hehne: The restructuring of courses of study "German as a foreign language": Problems and perspectives. Conference 17.-19. November at the University of Hanover , Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006, p. 238.
- ^ Stefan Mintschew: New plans for the German hospital. Burgas City Council, February 23, 2012, accessed October 5, 2012 (Bulgarian).
- ^ Sascha Kiefer: The German Novelle in the 20th Century. A genre story . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, 2010, p. 492.