Wasagasse grammar school

Wasagasse grammar school
type of school	General secondary school (grammar school)
School number	909016
founding	1871
address	Wasagasse 10
place	Vienna
state	Vienna
Country	Austria
Coordinates	48 ° 13 '0 "  N , 16 ° 21' 42"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '0 "  N , 16 ° 21' 42"  E
carrier	Republic of Austria
student	about 650
Teachers	64 (as of 2019/20)
management	Johannes Bauer
Website	www.bg9.at

Wasagasse High School (2010)

The Gymnasium Wasagasse ( Bundesgymnasium Vienna IX , shortly BG9 or Wasagymnasium ) is a school in the 9th Viennese district of Alsergrund .

history

The entrance to the school

The Wasagymnasium was built according to plans by Heinrich von Ferstel from 1869 to 1871 at Wasagasse 10 (still in the area of ​​the Vienna city ​​expansion zone ) and on October 16, 1871 as the KK Real- und Obergymnasium in the XI. Districts opened in Vienna . The building complex, a raw brick construction, also includes an adjoining rental house. From 1877 to 1895 the grammar school was officially called the KK Staatsgymnasium in the XI. Districts of Vienna , from 1895 Maximilians-Gymnasium .

For decades it was one of the gathering points for the sons of the cultivated Jewish bourgeoisie. By 1900 70% of the students were Jewish; In 1938 it was 50%. With the beginning of Nazi rule in 1938 this was put to an end. The building that drew Gauleitung of Niederdonau one. (From 1938 to 1945 the school premises of the abolished Schottengymnasium were used by the Wasagasse grammar school.) The third floor, which housed offices, was not used again for school purposes until decades later: 1938–1945 there were offices of the NSDAP here , 1945–1953 the central committee of the KPÖ , the Communist Party of Austria, has its seat. (The KPÖ later built the Globus publishing house for itself .)

In 2003, the teacher Renate Mercsanits and her students was the school project on the initiative Remind started to investigate, among other things, the fates of former Jewish students.

In 2007 the City School Board for Vienna examined incidents at the Wasagymnasium. A third grade student threatened to bring a gun to school and tortured classmates. As a result, his father, Georg Zakrajsek, press spokesman for the Austrian Chamber of Notaries, resigned from his position. The thirteen-year-old learns to shoot from his father. Shortly after this incident, the student changed schools.

After long-time director Michael Sörös was appointed state school inspector, he was succeeded as provisional director by Helmut Langegger. Johannes Bauer has been the headmaster since the 2009/10 school year.

Known students

Memorial plaque at the grammar school

Cultural workers

• Muhammad Asad (1900–1992), Islamic scholar, diplomat, journalist
• Andre Asriel (1922–2019), composer
• Gustav Bamberger (1861–1936), painter, architect
• Ernst Benedikt (1882–1973), journalist, writer, painter, publicist
• Josef Bergauer (1880–1947), actor, writer
• Felix Braun (1885–1973), writer, poet, playwright
• Robert Braun (1896–1972), poet, essayist
• Oskar Maurus Fontana (1889–1969), writer
• Ernst Décsey (1870–1941), writer, musician
• Max Deutsch (1892–1982), composer, conductor, music teacher
• Paul Deutsch (1873–1958), journalist
• Birgit Doll (1956–2015), actress
• Georg Drozdowski (1899–1987), writer, journalist, translator, actor
• Andrea Maria Dusl (* 1961), film director, author, illustrator
• Robert Eisler (1882–1949), art historian
• Otto von Falke (1862–1942), art historian
• Erich Fried (1921–1988), poet, translator, essayist
• Albert Fuchs (1905–1946), cultural historian
• Hans Gál (1890–1987), composer
• Gustav Glück (1871–1952), art historian
• Ernest Gold (1921–1999), composer, Oscar winner
• Felix Grafe (1888–1942), poet, translator
• Wilhelm Grosz (1894–1939), composer, conductor, musicologist
• Peter Hammerschlag (1902–1942), poet, writer, cabaret artist, graphic artist
• Eva-Maria Höhle (* 1948), art historian
• Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889–1967), journalist, writer
• Carl Junker (historian) (1864–1928), journalist
• Fritz Kalmar (1911–2008), author, stage artist
• Erich Kleiber (1890–1956), conductor
• Otto Koenig (behavioral scientist) (1914–1992), zoologist, publicist
• Franz von Krauss (architect) (1865–1942), architect
• Josef Krips (1902–1974), conductor
• Otto Leichter (1897–1973), socialist, journalist, author
• Peter Nagy (* 1955), TV director and producer
• Robert Neumann (1897–1975), writer, publicist
• Heinz Politzer (1910–1978), writer, literary scholar
• Marcel Prawy (1911–2003), dramaturge, opera connoisseur, opera critic
• Heinrich Reif-Gintl (1900–1974), artistic director, director of the Vienna State Opera
• Felix Salten (1869–1945), writer
• Fritz Saxl (1890–1948), art historian
• Harry Seidler (1923–2006), architect
• Adalbert Seligmann (1862–1945), painter, art critic
• Heinz Sichrovsky (* 1954), journalist, moderator
• Götz Spielmann (* 1961), film director, screenwriter
• Fritz Stiedry (1883–1968), conductor
• Sophie Stockinger (* 1997), actress
• Daniela Strigl (* 1964), literary scholar
• Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), writer, journalist, editor
• Diego Viga (1907–1997), physician, writer
• Egid Filek von Wittinghausen (1874–1949), writer
• Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer

scientist

• Michael Haberlandt (1860–1940), folklorist, Indologist
• Richard Wettstein (1863–1931), botanist
• Armin Ehrenzweig (1864–1935), legal scholar
• Gustav von Arthaber (1864–1943), paleontologist
• Ludo Hartmann (1865–1924), historian, politician
• Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), pathologist, serologist, Nobel laureate
• Max Haitinger (1868–1946), microscopist
• Julius Tandler (1869–1936), doctor, politician
• Hans Benndorf (1870–1953), physicist
• Hermann von Schrötter (1870–1928), physician, physiologist
• Arthur Szarvassi (1873-1919), physicist
• Emil Abel (1875–1958), chemist
• Ludwig Adler (1876–1958), gynecologist
• Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten (1876–1930), meteorologist, geophysicist
• Lukas Waagen (1877–1959), geologist
• Felix Ehrenhaft (1879–1952), physicist
• Hanns Sachs (1881–1947), lawyer, psychoanalyst, member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association
• Eduard Helly (1884–1943), mathematician
• Philipp Frank (1884–1966), physicist, mathematician, philosopher
• Ernst Kurth (musicologist) (1886–1946), music theorist and music psychologist
• Franz Selety (1893–1933?), Philosopher and cosmologist
• Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002), chemist
• Otto Koenig (behavioral scientist) (1914–1992), zoologist, publicist
• Gerald Holton (* 1922), science historian
• Norbert Leser (1933–2014), political scientist, social philosopher, lawyer

People from other areas

• Alfred Braunthal (1897–1980), social democrat, trade unionist, social scientist
• Walter Breisky (1871–1944), politician, former Austrian Vice Chancellor and Federal Chancellor
• Siegmund Feilbogen (1858–1928), lawyer, economist, writer, translator
• Otto Fend (* 1938), former Austrian politician
• Hans von Frisch (1875–1941), lawyer
• Walter Grab (1919–2000), historian
• Robert Hecht (1881–1938), lawyer and civil servant in the Austrian corporate state
• Jakob Hegner (1882–1962), printer, publisher, translator
• Martin Jäggle (* 1948), theologian
• Peter Karner (* 1937), theologian, journalist, author
• Karl Anton Klammer (1879–1959), Austrian kuk officer, literary translator
• Helmut Krätzl (* 1931), auxiliary bishop
• Karl Luick (1865–1935), English studies
• Ignaz Maybaum (1897–1976), rabbi
• Beate Meinl-Reisinger (* 1978), politician
• Rainer Nowak (* 1972), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse
• Ari Rath (1925–2017), journalist, publicist
• Herbert Otto Roth (1917–1994), socialist, librarian, historian
• Walter Schiff (1866–1950), statistician, sociologist, political economist
• Herbert Steiner (1923–2001), politician, historian
• Henry Strakosch (1871–1943), banker, businessman
• Hans Thalberg (1916–2003), diplomat, resistance fighter
• Richard Wagner (1887–1974), pediatrician
• Karl Wahle (1887–1970), judge
• Otto Zsigmondy (1860–1917), dentist, mountaineer
• Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885), doctor, mountaineer
• Paul Zulehner (* 1939), theologian, priest

Known teachers

• Friedrich Cerha (* 1926), composer
• Karl Exner (1842–1914), mathematician, physicist
• Josef Golling (1848–1916), pedagogue, classical philologist
• Franz Joseph Grobauer, historian and classical philologist
• Friedrich Hirth (comparator) (1878–1952), comparator
• Adalbert Horawitz (1840–1888), historian, philologist and classical philologist
• Eduard Hula (1862–1902), archaeologist
• Hugo Jurenka (1858–1920), classical philologist
• Ernst Kalinka (1865–1946), classical philologist
• Alfred Kappelmacher (1876–1932), classical philologist
• Gottfried Kinsky-Weinfurter (* 1958), composer and author
• Heinrich Krause (1885–1983), painter
• Wilhelm Kühnert (1900–1980), church historian
• Friedrich Lessky (* 1934), choir director, music teacher
• Joseph Machold (1824–1889), painter
• Max Margules (1856-1920), meteorologist
• Hans Molisch (1856–1937), botanist
• David Ernst Oppenheim (1881–1943), educator, psychologist
• Karl Penka (1847–1912), philologist and anthropologist
• Karl Prinz (classical philologist) (1872–1945), classical philologist
• Wilhelm Sanz, Germanist
• Karl von Spieß (1880–1957), botanist, folklorist
• Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944), philosopher, sociologist

Educational offer and activities

Graphic of the educational offer

The Wasagymnasium has been a humanistic grammar school since its foundation, where Latin and ancient Greek are taught. There is also a choice of the modern language branch (with Latin and French as the second and third foreign language) and the secondary school.

Students from the Wasagymnasium regularly take part in various competitions, such as B. the Vienna English / French speech competition and the Latin and Greek Olympiad.

About 90% of the pupils attend the upper level after the lower level of the Gymnasium.

The grammar school uses the possibilities of the Autonomy Ordinance of December 2003 and has developed and implemented new upper school models.

The Wasagymnasium also serves as a host school for Chinese children in Vienna, and the optional Chinese is also taught.

The school has a small and a large gym, the latter is located at Wasagasse 20.

Since 2007 the Wasagymnasium has been a venue for the Nox Latina, the Long Night of Latin.

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Wasagymnasium. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 598 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• School website
• Unveiling of the memorial plaque in the AHS Wasagasse . In: Rathauskorrespondenz from March 22, 2006 (accessed on January 6, 2010).
• To the school project "Remember"
• Wasagymnasium in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Incidents at Wasagymnasium I - Diepresse.com
2. ^ Incidents at Wasagymnasium II - Diepresse.com
3. ↑ PDF letter to parents on the change of director ( Memento from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Diepresse.com : "Presse" editorial team confirms Rainer Nowak as editor-in-chief. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
5. ↑ Teacher advertisement of the Wasagasse grammar school with photo. bg9.at, accessed on February 23, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna (Anthropological Society in Vienna, 1912, p. 222)