Eppendorf high school

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Eppendorf high school
Eppendorf High School - panoramio.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1904
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 35 '6 "  N , 9 ° 59' 4"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '6 "  N , 9 ° 59' 4"  E
carrier City of Hamburg
student 890
Teachers 70
management Maike Languth
Website www.gymnasium-eppendorf.de

The Eppendorf grammar school is an eight-level modern-language, mathematical and scientific grammar school with a bilingual education in Hamburg-Eppendorf .

history

German Empire and Weimar Republic

The Eppendorf grammar school was founded on April 18, 1904 as a pre-school and secondary school for boys on the site of its current location, in Hamburg , Hegestraße 35. The school regulations introduced in 1908 stipulated: Beginners do not want to have knowledge of school when they are admitted. For the transition to the 6th grade (i.e. 4th school year) reading German and Latin print, knowledge of the parts of the speech, clean and sufficiently well-trained handwriting in German and Latin, rewriting what has been said without gross mistakes against the spelling (dictation), confidence in the 4th grade. Basic calculation types; Obligation to participate in religious education - with the exception of other than possibly Lutheran students: Jewish students exempt from attending school on Saturday and on Jewish holidays, writing exempted upon written application. Obligation of the student to obedience and deference to the teacher; Private lessons and tuition are to be reported to the class teacher, by the school teacher reporting to the principal. Bringing anything other than school books is prohibited. Holiday regulations ,. Quarterly reports. Relegation possible after repeating it twice. Annual school fees for secondary school are 144 marks, pre-school 120 marks, quarterly payment is permitted. At that time between 150 and 190 boys attended school.

Following a decision by Citizenship and Senate in October 1910, the extension was to Oberrealschule decided. The corresponding structural and personnel expansion followed from 1912, which was completed in 1914. The school received chemistry and physics rooms with appropriate laboratory facilities. She also had collections of animals and plants for biology and materials for geography lessons. A music room and a large auditorium equipped with an organ were also part of the facility. Below the auditorium was a gym, to which another smaller and lower one was added in the mid-1930s. (Both rooms were used for grain storage during World War II ). A library supplemented the school's equipment.

After the school had retrospectively been allowed to issue certificates for the academic qualification for one-year voluntary military service for those who left the school in 1908 , schooling could be concluded from 1912 with the school leaving examination (Abitur). The school thus fulfilled all the requirements for university studies.

National Socialism and World War II

According to surveys of the schools under National Socialism , the Oberrealschule Eppendorf is said to have been a refuge for National Socialist ideas early on. In 1936 the school time for higher schools was generally shortened by one year to eight years, two years later, at the beginning of the school year 1938, the previous upper secondary schools were renamed uniformly throughout the empire as high schools. The Oberrealschule was now called Oberschule in Eppendorf. Political change made itself felt in the school as early as 1934. The institution of the Hitler Youth School Leader was set up as a liaison to the Hitler Youth , the youth organization of the NSDAP . This was determined in consultation between the party and the school authorities. Günter Bock was the first school leader, followed by Walter Meyer-Hübner after his departure. a. Konrad Henckell. The school rules for public elementary, middle and high schools or superstructure in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg on January 24, 1939 included u. a. exemption from teaching due to participation in NSDAP events.

classes

Until 1939/40, classes were regularly taught between five and six hours a week, Monday to Saturday, and occasionally seven hours. However, with the beginning of the school year from Easter 1940 this number was drastically reduced to four hours a day, alternating in the morning and in the afternoon. From this point on, the pupils of the Lyceum Curschmannstrasse, whose building was set up as a reserve hospital due to the expansion of the war and in view of the proximity to the Eppendorf General Hospital , sat in on Hegestrasse, with the opposite teaching cycle . Some of the students went class by class with their teachers to the Kinderlandverschickung (KLV) in Bistritz in the Bavarian Forest. During the bombing war , the Hegestrasse school complex was largely spared. Incendiary bombs fell in the wing on the Hegestieg without causing any major damage.

After 1945

After the Second World War, the school was continued as a high school in Eppendorf and from 1947 as a scientific high school for boys in Eppendorf (known as WOEpp), from 1957 as a high school for boys in Eppendorf. The college has been co-educational since 1971 and is called the Eppendorf Gymnasium. After the war, some classrooms at the schoolyard entrance at Hegestieg were used for the public library in Eppendorf. There is a side entrance to the school here. The rooms became vacant in 1963 after a new building at the Hamburg-Nord district office. The school could then use the premises as workrooms after renovations.

principal

  • 1904–1924 Wilhelm Röttiger
  • 1924–1932 Dieter Lauenstein
  • 1932–1933 Bernhard Studt
  • 1933–1945 Rudolf Schmidt
  • 1945–1947 Hensell (provisional)
  • 1947–1953 Walther Franck
  • 1953–1962 Walter Kurenbach
  • 1962–1972 Julius Kollwitz
  • 1972–1984 Hans König
  • 1984–1996 Jürgen Lienemann
  • 1996–2011 Brigitte Grosse-Stölten
  • since 2011 Maike Languth

School magazines

  • "the swam" from June 1954 until it was banned.
  • "Das Periskop" from June / August 1962 (issue 1, edition 600) to 1965. Special issue on the visit of Queen Elisabeth (June 1965, edition 2000).

Pedagogical focuses and special features

Music at school

The school building on Hegestrasse did not have a stage in the auditorium. Only about a 20 cm high platform on which there was an organ console with two manuals. In the middle the eye fell on the organ prospect. The podium made it possible to place not only an orchestra but also large choirs across the entire width of the auditorium. This equipment had a major impact on school operations until the renovation of the auditorium in 1967 provided a stage. The organ disappeared behind a wall of wooden sticks and a curtain. The organ console was placed behind a curtain on the stage.

  • Heinz Hamm's musical era (1914–1949)

In the school year 1914/15 Heinz Hamm began his service as a music teacher. From him the organ was included in music lessons. Singing lessons turned into music lessons and the school choir was built. The school choir was not only active in the school, but also in performances in the Eppendorfer St. Johanniskirche and in the main church St. Petri . Since 1926 the St. Matthew Passion by JSBach has been sung in the music hall (Laeiszhalle) under the conductors Spengel, Eugen Papst and Eugen Jochum , this under the latter (1938?) Also in the main church St. Michaelis . From then on, boys of the school choir appeared in the opera ( Carmen ) and on the radio (Bach cantatas). Heinz Hamm retired in 1949.

  • Richard Bloh's musical era (1949–1955)

In 1948, the trained pharmacist Richard Bloh (1900–1955) began his service after completing his training as a music teacher. He had already been in contact with Heinz Hamm during his music training so that he could continue to follow his path and continue to train the boys' choir for tasks in the State Opera and on the radio. Particular highlights of his work were the performance of Haydn's Creation in the St. Johannis Church in Harvestehude with the boys' choir and the Messiah in the main church of St. Petri in the city center. In the difficult post-war years Bloh undertook trips with the school choirboys and financed them with choral performances on the trip at various locations. In 1955 Richard Bloh was killed in a traffic accident.

  • Heinz Zabel's musical epoch (1955–1977)

The music teacher Heinz Zabel (1912–1994) joined the college of the scientific high school for boys in Eppendorf in 1949 and gave music lessons at the school together with Richard Bloh. In 1950, Zabel implemented the idea of ​​a mixed choir with the female voices from the "Oberschule for Girls on Curschmannstrasse". After Richard Bloh's death, Heinz Zabel took over all of the music lessons, the choirs (boys' choir with A choir, male choir, mixed choir), the school orchestra and the rehearsal of the singing parts of the soloists for opera , radio , television and for records . He spoke to talented students for choir work and was thus able to continuously provide young choir boys after their voices broke. The high quality of the rehearsals by the choirs and soloists was due in particular to his perfect pitch. He demanded choral discipline, which the students mostly gladly took on due to the successes in public. The boys 'choir became particularly well known: Joseph Keilberth spoke of "seraphic sound brightness", Wolfgang Sawallisch of "rare purity and devotion", Kurt Thomas said: "By far the best boys' choir that a school for passion has ever offered me". " Zabel has accompanied Hamburg's musical life for almost three decades with the school choirs of the Eppendorfer grammar schools in the music hall, in the State Opera , in the main churches of St. Michaelis , St. Jacobi , St. Petri and St. Nikolai .

International choral associations

Between 1951 and 1967 there were 20 international encounters between the school choirs of the school last named Eppendorf Gymnasium.

  • 1951 to 1953 boys' choir twice in Denmark and once in Sweden on tour
  • 1954 boys' choir travels abroad to Southampton
  • 1954 mixed choir in St. Petri with the school choir of the Aalborg Katedralskole, further Danish-German school concerts in Eppendorf: 1956, 1958 and 1960
  • 1955 mixed choir played together with the Aalborg Katedralskole in Aalborg and further in 1957, 1959 and 1961
  • 1960 mixed choir invitation to the Rödovre Statsskole in Copenhagen for a joint school concert and further in 1962, 1964 and 1966
  • 1961 mixed choir for joint school and church concerts with the Rödovre Statsskole in Eppendorf as well as in 1963, 1965, 1967

Records

  • 1958/59 Boys' Choir Two recordings of 2 Christmas carols and 2 folk tunes
  • 1962 Teldec A-Choir and men's voices touring songs "Am Campfire"
  • 1962 Archive production (Deutsche Grammophon) Christmas motets with the municipal choir under Adolf Detel
  • 1963 Philips -Phonographische Industrie boys' choir "Silent Night, Holy Night" Orpheus D 1409 L
  • 1963 Archive - Production of 15 cantus firmus boys sing in the North German Singing Circle under Gottfried Wolters
  • 1965 Teldec men's choir continued travel songs "Auf grosser Fahrt"
  • 1965 Teldec men's choir "Well, the time has come"
  • 1965 Teldec men's choir "Sing man to"
  • 1966 Teldec boys' choir holiday songs

watch TV

  • 1964 Studio Wandsbek: Boys Choir: Folksong Variations
  • 1964 Studio Rahlstedt: Boys' Choir: "The Crusade"
  • 1965 Studio Wandsbek: Male choir: Singing for a film about the FDJ

broadcast

  • 1954 Boys' Choir in "Ja oder Nein" from the NWDR
  • 1954 Boys' Choir NWDR borrows "silver light" sopranos for 4 Bach cantatas
  • 1954 Boys' Choir NWDR Performance of the 8th Symphony by Gustav Mahler (Symphony of a Thousand)
  • 1957 NDR boys choir participation in Igor Stravinsky " Persephone " for the new work
  • 1958/59 A-Choir Six Bach cantatas and seven Bach cantatas for NDR
  • 1960 Boys' Choir in Honegger "Johanna on the Stake" NDR
  • 1960 Boys' Choir in Zoltán Kodály "Psalmus hungaricus" NDR
  • 1960 Boys' choir nine Bach cantatas for NDR
  • 1961 A-Choir another nine Bach cantatas for NDR

Economics as a subject

The Eppendorf high school has been the only general high school in Hamburg that has been able to offer an advanced course in economics on a regular basis since 1975. Since the introduction of the upper level profile in Hamburg in 2009, this focus has been continued within the framework of the profile "Economy and Society".

Bilingual education

Since 1991, the Eppendorf high school has offered English-language specialist courses in history, geography and biology as part of a bilingual education . In order to provide the necessary basis for this, all students in grades 5 and 6 have English lessons that are reinforced by two hours per week. In the upper level there is the possibility of choosing between two variants of the bilingual Abitur.

Maintain helping hands

"Hege Helping Hands" is the name of a working group of students from the Eppendorf grammar school that has set itself the task of helping people in need all over the world. It was initiated by the lower level coordinator Norbert Grote in 2003 and, in addition to many small campaigns, has meanwhile carried out two large events to collect donations:

  • In 2009, "Wheels of Emotion" raised a unicycle marathon world record in a two-day charity campaign to collect around 25,000 euros for the Friends of the Children's Clinic of the UK Eppendorf to alleviate the suffering of children with NCL .
  • In January 2010, the Hege Helping Hands collected 5000 euros for the victims of the Haiti earthquake within a very short time with their "Hege Hilft Haiti" campaign . Then they were invited by Thomas Gottschalk for their commitment to the ZDF donation gala. During his return visit to the school, the students offered Mr. Gottschalk the bet that the donation would be increased to 50,000 euros within a month. With the support of many celebrities (including Marc Bator , Jasmin Wagner , Bastian Reinhardt , Ian K. Karan , Alfons , Rhea Harder , Michael Stich , Rodolfo Cardoso , Udo Lindenberg ), two Hamburg shopping centers ( Europa Passage and Alstertal shopping center ) and many business people and private donors they managed to win this bet.

In 2007, the Hege Helping Hands were awarded the badge of honor by the Hamburg-Nord district assembly for their commitment .

Partner schools

The Eppendorf grammar school runs regular exchange programs

  • three schools in Ipswich , England (Ipswich School, Ipswich High School for Girls, St. Joseph's)
  • the Huntington School in York, England
  • the Collège Lavoisier in Paris , France
  • of Spruce Grove Composite High School in Spruce Grove near Edmonton , Canada

Well-known alumni

Engagement of the alumni

Around 1954, W. Schneider and K. Kiessner were asked by the school to maintain and promote the cohesion of the former students of the Scientific Oberschule for Boys in Eppendorf. Both of them did this without founding an association. They set up a special student account to support the school work in terms of public relations and the connection with the alumni. The printing of the annual reports was also supported by donations from the alumni. In 1960, K. Kiessner and W. Schneider wrote "vom Siechtum" to the former association. In 1961 the former association of J. Metzinger and G. Schroeder was continued as a bridge between the "former Eppendorfern" and the "old school". In 1964 the "Association of Alumni of the Eppendorf Grammar School" was founded. The student councilor Menzel acted as contact person. The school magazine "Das Periskop" and the annual report would be sent for an annual amount of at least 5 DM. The commitment of the alumni was limited. The association "Hegemalige" existed since the year 2000 and supported the educational work of the school, for example by co-organizing the annual career fairs or through the foundation of the student prize "Open Door" for social commitment. The association "Hegemalige eV" was deleted from the Hamburg register of associations in May 2018.

literature

  • "Where celebrities went to school". In: Alstertal Magazin , pp. 24–25.
  • Hamburger Abendblatt - Gymnasium Eppendorf - January 15, 2009 p. 33
  • Anniversary commemoration of the Oberschule Eppendorf 1904–1954
  • Annual report 51st year 1954/55
  • Annual report, 52nd year 1955/56
  • Annual report 54th year 1957/58
  • Annual report 55th year 1958/59
  • Annual report, 56th year 1959/60
  • Annual report, volume 57, 1960/61
  • Annual report, 58th year 1961/62
  • Annual report, volume 59, 1962/63
  • Annual report, volume 60, 1963/64
  • Annual report, volume 61, 1964/65
  • Annual report 62/63. Born in 1965/67

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Eppendorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About our school. In: www.gymnasium-eppendorf.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Marlies Fischer: The helping hands from the Eppendorfer Gymnasium . January 7, 2012.