Goethe-Gymnasium (Berlin-Lichterfelde)

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Goethe high school
Goethe-Gymnasium in Drakestrasse
type of school high school
School number 06Y11
founding 1872
address

Drakestr. 72-74
12205 Berlin

place Berlin-Lichterfelde
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 26 '5 "  N , 13 ° 18' 21"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '5 "  N , 13 ° 18' 21"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 756 (2017/2018)
Teachers 70 + 11 trainees (2017/2018)
management Dagmar Porzelt
Website www.goethe-gymnasium-lichterfelde.de

The Goethe-Gymnasium is a grammar school in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde and comprises grades 7–12.

history

On April 8, 1872, the "Krahmersche higher girls' school" was founded by Adelheid Krahmer in the Villa Hildesheim (Bellair) on Berliner Straße (today Ostpreußendamm). Six students were to be taught. In addition there was a student who was unable to attend the “boys' school” due to poor transport connections and high school fees. Adelheid Krahmer, who was also the first headmistress, hired more teachers as the number of pupils increased. Since the spatial conditions were insufficient, the school moved to Chausseestrasse 29 at the corner of Dürerstrasse in 1874.

In 1878 the school was moved to Berliner Straße 166, this time in a building specially commissioned by Adelheid Krahmer (today Willi-Graf-Oberschule). In the following time the " Hauptkadettenanstalt " moved to the vicinity of the school , which was a great advantage for the "Krahmersche higher girls' school". Some of the male teachers at the cadet institute were now able to teach at the girls' school.

In 1881 all male students were transferred to a newly built grammar school and the school only taught girls again. In 1904 the "Krahmersche higher girls 'school" became the property of the community of Groß-Lichterfelde , because it was supposed to become a "public higher girls' school". In 1907/1908 Adelheid Krahmer retired. In 1911 the school was renamed "Lyzeum und Oberlyzeum der Gemeinde Berlin-Lichterfelde" by their successors.

In 1943 the school building on Berliner Straße was badly damaged and only reopened in June 1945. Shortly afterwards, she moved to the building on Drakestrasse that was previously used by the Lichterfelde secondary school. In 1951 the name was changed to “Goethe School” after it was now called “Lichterfelder Oberschule for Girls”. Since 1953, male pupils have been accepted again and the school has made a lot of progress: restored parts of the building, auditorium, gymnasium and science rooms were opened in 1954. In order to do justice to the rapidly growing number of students in the 1970s, numerous renovations and conversions took place during this time. The school has had a modern three-field sports hall since 2015.

In 2016 the school was renamed Goethe-Gymnasium Lichterfelde .

Architecture and terrain

Building and site plan of the Goethe-Gymnasium
blue = school building
gray = school yard
yellow = gym

terrain

The school building, the gymnasium built in 2014, a school garden, table tennis tables and other sports facilities are located on the approximately 12,000 square meter property. The school's property is surrounded by residential buildings on Drakestrasse in the north, Drakestrasse in the east, Weddigenweg in the south and residential buildings on Weddigenweg and Potsdamer Strasse in the west.

school-building

The school building was built from 1909 to 1912 according to the design of the architects Julia Ammer and Richard Tietzen and was first the school building of the Lichterfelder Realgymnasium , which was merged with the neighboring Lilienthal-Gymnasium after the Second World War . The external shape of the building has hardly changed since then. The yellow, plastered building can be assigned to the style of neoclassicism . The building consists of numerous protruding and recessed parts. The main entrance is on Drakestrasse. In the years after the Second World War, the building was rebuilt several times. In the school building there is an auditorium, a gym, numerous class and specialist rooms, administration rooms and a cafeteria.

In 2010, planning began for the new construction of a three-part gymnasium, which should cover the urgent need for sports facilities in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district. A plot of land on Weddigenweg was selected as the location. One of the criteria for this was the protected tree population on the property. A sum of 4.5 million euros was set for the construction of the gym. The gym was completed and opened in 2014.

The school building is listed under the object document number 09065766 in the monument database of the State of Berlin.

School life

School profile

Since the 2002/2003 school year, increased music lessons have been offered at the Goethe-Gymnasium from grade 7 to grade 10. In 2010, the Goethe-Gymnasium was awarded the title European Environmental School for the sixth time in a row since 2005 . In 2006 the Goethe-Gymnasium won the IT school award.

The Goethe-Gymnasium has been an IT model school since 2002. The school also receives computer hardware and network components from the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office and the non-profit Cids GmbH. The aim is to introduce computers as self-evident and functioning tools in specialist and classroom teaching. Students can use personal internet access in all class and course rooms .

Language sequence

English and French can be chosen as the first foreign language from grade 7 onwards. From grade 8, Latin is offered as an elective .

Elective courses

In the framework of the 8th, 9th and 10th grades, students choose a compulsory elective subject . As a rule, three hours are taken in the 9th grade and two hours in the 10th grade. The subjects that can be chosen include Latin, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Fine Arts and Chemistry.

Number of teachers and students

In the 2016/2017 school year, 752 students attended the school. Of these, 27 pupils did not have German citizenship and 43 pupils were of a non-German language of origin.

school year Teacher student
2001/2002 596
2002/2003 579
2003/2004 52 560
2004/2005 54 584
2005/2006 55 611
2006/2007 53 650
2007/2008 56 669
2008/2009 56 700
2009/2010 61 766
2010/2011 65 826
2011/2012 84 853
2012/2013 83 779
2013/2014 79 789
2014/2015 80 786
2015/2016 81 749
2016/2017 81 752
2017/2018 81 756

Source: School directory of Berlin schools

Working groups

Especially in the musical direction, the Goethe-Gymnasium offers a large selection of working groups (short: AG ) that can be heard after school. There is a ukulele group, a guitar group, two choirs, a school band and an orchestra. In the sporting area there is a hockey, soccer, basketball, rowing and badminton club. Further working groups are a garden group, a theater group and a robot group.

One of the most successful AGs is the Esport AG, founded by Max Keßler and David Mandel, which has already attracted national and international attention through tournament results. These include the runner-up in the German Games School Championship and 3rd place at the ISF World Esports School Championship. The working group is supervised and managed by Gabriel Stüdemann.

Events

The annual events include an open day as well as theater performances of the performing arts courses and concerts by the music groups

Support association

The Friends of the Goethe Gymnasium Lichterfelde eV , the Friends of the Goethe Gymnasium eV , was founded in 1922 and supports school projects that cannot be financed with funds from the State of Berlin. The association currently has over 200 members. The association permanently supports the school's rowing club. In addition, a large number of school projects are funded from membership fees and donations every school year. The association is recognized as a non-profit organization.

Since 2017, the association has presented the “Goethe Social Prize” every year for a high school graduate with great social commitment inside and outside the school. The prize comes with a certificate and a gift. The nominees are chosen from among the students, parents or teachers.

The association is recognized as a non-profit organization and is a member of the State Association of School Support Associations Berlin-Brandenburg eV (lsfb).

School newspaper

The school newspaper senfgoelb appears once every school semester and is designed and created in the German Additional course.

public relation

Participation in environmental projects

By collecting recyclable ink and toner cartridges, the school takes part in the Green Environment Box campaign. Thanks to the success of the student company Goethe , which has specialized in advertising companies as empties sponsors since the spring of 2007, the Goethe-Gymnasium was again the state winner in Berlin and was able to finance the necessary teaching material, necessary furnishings and necessary multimedia equipment .

Fundraisers

The school has also been involved in social areas for many years. Once a month, students collect food and donations in kind for the non-profit organization Berliner Tafel .

Among other things, the Goethe-Gymnasium participated in the construction of an orphanage in Kenya with a bottle collection campaign .

Since the beginning of the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015 , the school has had the Welcome AG, which regularly collects donations and supports refugees.

collaboration

In the upper secondary school level , the Goethe-Gymnasium works together with the neighboring Lilienthal-Gymnasium and the Willi-Graf-Gymnasium.

Personalities

Known teachers

Known students

Web links

Commons : Goethe-Gymnasium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Goethe-Gymnasium. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, September 19, 2008, accessed on October 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Two German high schools are aiming for world championship titles in eSports. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ ISF World Esports School Championship: Silver and Bronze for Germany. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).