Heinrich Heine Comprehensive School Düsseldorf
| Heinrich Heine Comprehensive School Düsseldorf | |
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| type of school | comprehensive school |
| School number | 188232 |
| founding | 1981 |
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Graf-Recke-Strasse 170 |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '42 " N , 6 ° 49' 7" E |
| Website | www.ge-heinrich-heine.eschool.de |
The Heinrich Heine Comprehensive School Düsseldorf was the second comprehensive school - after the comprehensive school Kikweg (today Dieter Forte Comprehensive School ) - in Düsseldorf and was founded as part of the comprehensive school movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Today it is characterized by an artistically shaped profile and Italian as the dominant second foreign language.
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history
The foundation of a second comprehensive school in Düsseldorf was decided by the state capital's council on November 5, 1981 with a majority of one vote. At the same time, the council, which was dominated by the SPD at the time, decided that the Städtische Rethel-Gymnasium was no longer allowed to accept entry classes at the beginning of the 1982/83 school year. For this, the new comprehensive school should start in four classes - i.e. with four parallel entrance classes.
This was followed by the founding of a parents' initiative, Rettet das Rethel-Gymnasium , which placed full-page advertisements in the local press, tried administrative courts, reached hearings in the council, lodged a protest with the minister of education and took further measures to oppose the comprehensive school.
On March 4, 1982, the city council decided to keep the Rethel high school in two classes and at the same time to set up the second comprehensive school with four classes on Graf-Recke-Straße. Both schools were obliged to coexist peacefully in the Graf-Recke-Straße 170 building. Jürgen Pullwitt was appointed by the council as the founding school director. School operations began on August 31, 1982.
On April 24, 1983, the state capital's city council finally decided to merge the Rethel-Gymnasium with the Goethe-Gymnasium following the extremely successful second registration process in February 1983 with around 400 registrations from the comprehensive school . The comprehensive school was divided into six classes. In the initial phase, many functions had to be relocated to the staff room due to the limited space.
Since there was already a comprehensive school in Düsseldorf from the 1970s that exhibited a number of undesirable developments, attempts were made to circumvent these with new concepts. Since the early 1980s still offered a certain degree of freedom for school experiments in terms of school policy, especially in comprehensive schools, a number of new things were tried, especially in the area of promoting pupils. The founding college consisted of ten teachers.
In addition to new funding and homework concepts, the tradition of “assembly” was introduced. The word "assembly" comes from English and means "assembly". Following on from the tradition of English schools, where every morning the whole school gathers for a short meeting, the HHG tries to do something similar. Every six to eight weeks at that time, all pupils or the pupils of a year or the future pupils of a year gathered for one hour in the auditorium. In addition, the Open Day is firmly anchored in school tradition.
The name for this second comprehensive school in Düsseldorf was determined by vote. The names Gustav Heinemann , Heinrich Heine and Anne Frank were available. In a survey of parents and pupils, "Heinrich-Heine" emerged as the winner with 63 votes. The school conference unanimously agreed to this vote on February 28, 1983.
On March 10, 1983 - 50 years after the book burning , including that of Heinrich Heine's works - founding director Pullwitt applied for the school to be named "Heinrich-Heine-Gesamtschule". The school administration office and the council agreed.
Since the Heinrich-Heine-Gesamtschule became six-class, the building of the former Rethel-Gymnasium was soon no longer sufficient. The city of Düsseldorf then assigned the HHG the building to a low-capacity secondary school on another section of Graf-Recke-Straße. In this building, internally referred to as Dependance (from the French "branch"), grades 5, 6 and 7 were gradually accommodated from 1987 onwards. With the end of the secondary school, this building was finally taken over step by step. The transition phase of coexistence was very difficult for the overall school students , who were on average younger.
The first graduates with secondary school and secondary school qualifications came in 1988, the first high school graduates in 1991.
School profile
In North Rhine-Westphalia there is a four-tier school system consisting of the 3 classic school types and the integrated comprehensive school . The task of the comprehensive school is to enable children who have a recommendation for the secondary school to achieve higher school qualifications than the starting position in class 5 makes it likely if they are immediately assigned to a classic school type. In addition, the comprehensive schools are all-day schools, which can sometimes make them attractive for a classic high school clientele.
The Heinrich Heine Comprehensive School is located in the affluent Düsseltal , but in addition to the upscale Grafenberg residential area , the socially less structured Flingern is also part of its catchment area. The decline of the former trade union housing association Neue Heimat is noticeable in the catchment area.
However, the Heinrich Heine Comprehensive School also has its own professional profile: after the school under founding director Pullwitt was more scientific and modern-lingual (English, French, Italian, initially also Russian), it took a turn under director Heesen in the 1990s to an artistic profile that is unique even in the traditional art city of Düsseldorf. In 1993, it was the first school in North Rhine-Westphalia to introduce the subject of art, music and stage (performing and creating) as an option in addition to the traditional first elective subjects at comprehensive schools (French, Latin, natural sciences and industrial studies) in the first elective subject . The 2nd compulsory elective area from grade 9 also includes the possibility of artistic profiling. Another specialty is the strength of the subject Italian .
In the upper level next is mathematics , German , English and biology and art and history regularly in advanced courses represented, the once regular physics -LK however, ran out in 1996.
useful information
In the school auditorium, the scene of the election of the head boy in the film adaptation of Frank Goosen's novel Learn to lie down was filmed.
