Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium

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Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium
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type of school All-day high school
School number 04Y04
founding 1919
address

Olbersstrasse 38

place Berlin-Charlottenburg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 31 '44 "  N , 13 ° 18' 8"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '44 "  N , 13 ° 18' 8"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 650 (2018/2019)
Teachers 65 + 4 trainee lawyers (2017/2018)
management Uwe Kany
Website www.gks-berlin.de

The Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium is an all-day high school in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . The school was founded in 1919 as a secondary school and gradually expanded into a grammar school. In the 2010s it was the only grammar school in the district with full-time operation. The school is named after the Swiss writer and poet Gottfried Keller , who spent important years of his creative period in Berlin from 1850 to 1855.

Location and surroundings

The school complex is on Mierendorff Island, which is enclosed by the Spree , Westhafen Canal and the Charlottenburg connecting canal. The Schlosspark Charlottenburg and Mierendorffplatz are in the immediate vicinity .

School history

Exterior view with schoolyard (2015)

Construction phase and first years

The first plans to build the school go back to 1911. From the end of 1914, a community dual school was created based on a design by municipal building officer Hans Winterstein . In the middle of the war , in 1916, the shell was completed. Presumably, the first classes that had been relocated from the nearby Herder School moved into the southern part of the new building as early as 1917. At the end of the war in 1918, construction work came to a standstill before it was continued a little later as an emergency work. Although the northern part of the building could not be completed until May 1919, school operations in the building on Kamminer Strasse and the corner of Olbersstrasse officially began on April 8, 1919. The first official school names were Stadt Charlottenburg, Realschule II and Gem. Schule 35 ; only boys were taught at them.

The first expansion of the L-shaped building complex took place as early as 1930, as capacities were still required for an auxiliary school (since the 1980s Arno-Fuchs special school ). According to a design by the municipal building officer Josef Reuters, another wing was added, so that the building, which initially did not extend to Olbersstrasse, now opened up to it. The subsequent extension to the original school building can be recognized by the construction-related smaller section of the classrooms and the structural isolation of the building on the ground floor.

Frisian secondary school

At the request of its first director, the school was named Friesen-Realschule on May 1, 1923 in honor of the teacher Karl Friedrich Friesen, who died in the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 . As a result of a severe shortage of teachers (many teachers had died in the First World War), lessons had to be limited in terms of time and content: In May 1920, in addition to the director, only 14 senior teachers and 3 technical teachers were busy teaching a total of 390 students in 12 classes. In the following years the number of pupils increased steadily and the school developed a scientific as well as a sporting focus: In addition to a rowing club (1928), the Friesen-Realschule also founded a sailing group with its own dinghy and a glider group with borrowed aircraft. An in-house wind orchestra was also established.

Elevation to the upper secondary school

A ministerial decree of the State of Prussia of July 16, 1931 elevated the Friesen-Realschule to an upper secondary school . Since then, it has been possible to take the school leaving examination (Abitur) at the school without - as required at the Prussian grammar school - having consistently taken Latin from the 5th grade.

Period of National Socialism and World War II

The beginning rule of National Socialism (NS) increasingly shaped the image of the Friesen-Oberrealschule in the 1930s: The spirit of Friesen was reinterpreted in the sense of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi racial doctrine also found its way into everyday school life. Youth officers appointed by the NSDAP had the task of ensuring the political and racial purity of the teaching staff and the student body. In addition, regular roll calls were held at which the national anthem and the Horst Wessel song were sung and the Hitler salute was shown. During the Second World War , during the bombing of Berlin , the school was completely evacuated to Prussian Holland in the province of East Prussia in the administrative district of Königsberg. With the advance of Soviet troops towards the end of the war, the teachers and students fled back to Berlin via Thuringia. The school building suffered several bomb hits, in which a lot of documents from the early phase of the school were destroyed.

Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium

The reconstruction of the Friesen-Oberrealschule, which had been destroyed in the war, proceeded slowly at first. In June 1948, the headmaster at the time, Violet, applied for a name "appropriate to the spirit of the times" for the Friesen-Oberrealschule and suggested the Swiss writer and poet Gottfried Keller as patron saint. He had completed his main work The Green Heinrich and the first part of his work The People of Seldwyla during his stay in Berlin from 1850 to 1855. With the new name, the Friesen-Oberrealschule was transformed into a grammar school , which from then on bore the name Gottfried-Keller-Oberschule . At the same time, the first girls were admitted to the school.

The post-war period also saw the beginning of multiple use of the building: in addition to the Gottfried Keller secondary school, the West Prussian secondary school moved into the shorter wing of the L-shaped building to the south. In the 1970s, after they moved out, the Elisabeth Oberschule (Realschule) was established in this wing. The construction work in the 1970s when the U-Bahn line 7 was extended to Spandau caused severe damage to the school grounds and the school building, which was repaired in 1979 during a thorough renovation . In 1983 the Arno-Fuchs-School was moved to the new school building on Richard-Wagner-Straße. After the renovation, in addition to the two remaining schools, a day-care center in the Pestalozzi-Froebel House moved into the ground floor of the extension that had been built in 1930 for the auxiliary school .

Because of the architectural design (clinker brick construction, shaped stones, very restrained relief decoration) and the fitting into the architectural ensemble northwest of Mierendorffplatz, the school building was included in the Berlin list of monuments in 1998.

With the amendment of the School Act 2004, the advanced classes that had been preparing many students of the secondary and comprehensive schools from grade 9 for the Abitur examination at the grammar school over the decades no longer existed . After the daycare center moved into a separate building right next to the school in 2006, the premises were converted into a cafeteria for the two schools in 2007/2008. With the major school structure reform in Berlin in 2010, the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium was finally converted into an all-day high school . The necessary additional space for full-day operation was freed up by the fact that the Elisabeth Oberschule merged with the former Oppenheim secondary school to form the ISS school at the castle and moved out. Since then, all age groups have been accommodated in the vacant wing of the building. In 2011, the newly designed schoolyard was opened according to students' designs. The design ideas arose from participation in the Senate project Grün macht Schule .

All day concept

Media library
Learning landscape

The Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium has been in full-day operation since the 2010/2011 school year. The conversion is based on the long-term goal of decoupling educational success from social origin in the socially burdened north of Charlottenburg. This goes hand in hand with a conceptual further development of the learning structures, which a. Manifested in the creation of individual learning times ( study periods ), the keeping of a learning diary ( study time book ) and in the supervision by class teams.

The pupils of lower secondary level (grades 7 to 10) are in the school Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. to around 4 p.m. and on Fridays from 8 a.m. to around 2 p.m. In addition to regular lessons, they have study times four times a week during this time, which take place in rhythm in the classroom, in the media library and in the learning landscapes. In the one-hour lunchtime band, the pupils can have lunch , relax in several common rooms that are looked after by social workers, do sports or voluntarily take advantage of individual learning opportunities. In grades 7 and 8, the pupils take part in working groups for two hours per week. In grade 9 they instead complete a self-organized 30-hour social internship.

Study time and study journal

The central task of the study periods is to enable the students to take responsibility for their own learning progress. You work on the tasks from the subject lesson according to your own choice and your own learning speed and increasingly dedicate yourself to self-identified problem areas and areas of interest. The study times are organized and supervised by the class teams in consultation with the subject teachers. The most important tool is the study journal, in which tasks are noted and learning progress is documented and reflected on. The study journal also serves as a means of communication between teachers and legal guardians. All students must acquire and keep the study journal bindingly.

In addition to the classrooms, the learning landscapes in the hallways offer the opportunity to carry out targeted individual, partner and group work. Computer workstations are available in the media library, which are used for silent, self-organized learning. In addition, the reference inventory of the school library can be used there.

Class teams

The class teams, which are made up of two class teachers and a social worker, are the linchpin of the development of the bound all-day operation. Your core task is to comprehensively analyze, accompany and promote the individual development of the students. For this purpose, team meetings take place weekly in which the joint approach is planned and reflected upon.

Profile classes

Foreign language profiling

Since the 2009/2010 school year, the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium has been working closely with the nearby Mierendorff primary school as part of the "Foreign Language Profiling" trial. Interested students from grade 5 onwards are taught in English and Spanish by teachers from the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium. This special support is then continued from grade 7 at the grammar school through the establishment of a foreign language class. Students from other schools can also be admitted to this class across districts. B. as a native speaker have special knowledge of Spanish.

Profile class sport

Gym

In cooperation with the German Handball Federation and the German Basketball Federation , talented girls and boys with high school and performance-oriented sports have been led to the Abitur in the sports profile class since 2013/14. In addition to the three-hour sports lessons in the regular classes, three additional hours a week are taken in handball or basketball in the sports profile. The classes are managed by sports teachers, who can all look back on a successful handball or basketball career. Together with the trainers of the professional associations, the training process is controlled from a sports science and educational point of view. Since the 2017/18 school year, there has also been a football profile, which was launched in cooperation with the Berlin football club Tennis Borussia .

Profile class music

In the winds class, which was newly established in 2015, musically interested students receive three additional hours of orchestral and instrumental lessons a week in addition to regular music lessons. They learn to play a wind instrument in small groups - guided by professionally trained instrumental teachers - and they also get to know orchestral playing under the guidance of music teachers from the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium.

Welcome classes

Since the 2013/14 school year, pupils from immigrant and partly refugee families have been taught in welcome classes at the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium . In these multi-year classes, which are led by specialists with a focus on German as a foreign language , you learn the German language in a targeted manner in order to then be successfully integrated into regular classes. Students from Syria , Macedonia , Bulgaria , South Korea , the People's Republic of China , Spain , Bosnia , Iceland , Iran and Serbia are currently represented in the welcome classes (as of July 2015). In the school year 2018/19 there are two welcome classes and two transition classes (called S and F classes).

Furnishing

Biology department

Interactive whiteboards are installed in a large number of specialist rooms and in almost all classrooms . The school also has a school library with a reading island, where students can spend their lunch break or free hours. Furthermore, an artificial turf soccer field, two sports halls and a fitness room are part of the school's sports facilities. The grammar school also houses a cafeteria, where school meals take place during the lunch break. In the two school stations , which are supervised by the school's social workers, there are other leisure activities. There is a separate lounge for the upper level, in which free hours and breaks can be spent. In addition, there is a supervised youth club straks , in which there are ping-pong tables , foosball tables and computers.

Others

The school participates in the Berlin program for in-depth professional orientation (BvBO) and offers its students support in professional orientation and career choice. In addition, both the DELF (French) and the DELE language diploma (Spanish) can be acquired at the school. Since 2018, the school has been the official preparatory school for the Cambridge language certificate and is also preparing for the DSD exam (German language diploma of the Conference of Ministers of Education).

Well-known former students

- sorted by year of birth -

Web links

Commons : Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, January 18, 2017, accessed on September 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Charlottenburg> Kamminerstr. 16/17 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, V, p. 5947.
  3. ↑ Arno-Fuchs-Sonderschule at www.berlin/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf
  4. ↑ Project page of the BERLIN all-day school network . Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ All -day concept. School website. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ Study journal. School website. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ study time. School website. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ Foreign language profiling in cooperation with the Mierendorff primary school. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 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. School website. Retrieved July 19, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gks-berlin.cidsnet.de
  9. ^ School and TeBe website of Tennis Borussia Berlin. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  10. ↑ Blog GKS wind class. Retrieved July 19, 2015.