Heinz Berggruen High School

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Heinz Berggruen High School
Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium.jpg
type of school high school
School number 04Y06
founding 1945
address

Bayernallee 4
14052 Berlin

place Berlin-Westend
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '38 "  N , 13 ° 16' 1"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '38 "  N , 13 ° 16' 1"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 903 (2017/2018)
Teachers 76
management Dirk Kwee
Website hbgym.de

The Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium is a state high school in the Westend of Berlin in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district , near the Theodor-Heuss-Platz and the exhibition center . The school is named after the art dealer Heinz Berggruen . The building of the former Erich Hoepner-school with its gymnasium and auditorium stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The grammar school was founded after the Second World War as the successor to the Kaiserin Augusta grammar school and the Mommsen grammar school. In September 1945 this new school was named "Charlottenburger Gymnasium". Today's school building was ceremoniously handed over on June 30, 1956 and was given the name Erich-Hoepner-Gymnasium on September 14 of the same year by a BVV resolution of the Charlottenburg district of Berlin , which was given to the executed Colonel General and resistance fighter Erich Hoepner (1886-1944 ) remembered, who was a student at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium . Even then, there was resistance to the renaming on the part of the then headmaster Rudolphi and large parts of the parents and the teaching staff, for various reasons. The right of co-determination was seen to be ignored, parts of them preferred to see a humanist like the original namesake Mommsen as the namesake, Rudolphi, who was himself a victim of National Socialism and had previously held celebrations at the school to commemorate July 20, 1944, and other parts also found that Hoepner's role as a resistance fighter (appearance before the People's Court) is not exemplary. Rudolphi therefore stayed away from the renaming celebrations. The person of Hoepner is controversial today due to his ambiguous biography. - Although he was early on in circles of resistance against National Socialism , as a tank general he had ordered shootings and called for the defense against Jewish Bolshevism . - On the occasion of the school's 50th anniversary in 2006, the school management initiated a process to rename the school again. Since August 1, 2008, the grammar school has been named after the art collector and patron Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007).

The Mommsen-Gymnasium was built from 1901 and opened in 1903 (Wormser Straße, later also Waldschulallee), because the existing schools could no longer meet the needs in Charlottenburg.

School profile

The Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium has an ancient language, an artistic and a musical focus. The artistic and musical focus has its origins in the 50s. In the school year 1953/54, the school was the first grammar school in Germany to set up a “new language train of musical direction”, which became a model for many other schools. The school has a large number of musical ensembles in which students from the 5th grade can participate. The school's Christmas concerts take place annually in the concert hall of the University of the Arts ; the summer concerts in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic .

School newspaper OHnE

The OHnE school newspaper of the Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium is run completely independently of the school by around 20 students. It has been published twice a year since 1998 and, in addition to school issues, also deals with current world problems and events that it tries to make understandable to the students. Since 2011 there has also been a subsidiary magazine for the 5th to 7th grades, the OHnE junior . The OHnE has already attracted attention through numerous awards and honors throughout Berlin and Germany . From 2005 to 2009 she won the Berlin school newspaper competition four times and since 2006 has always been awarded in the Spiegel school newspaper competition.

Well-known graduates

Well-known high school graduates include: B.

She conceived in 1988 with the involvement of many students - including the later Berlin jazz musicians Sarah Kaiser and Finn Wiesner - as well as all the choirs and orchestras of the school together with the teachers Michael Pabel (large choir / orchestra), Hartmut Hübner (girls' choir) and Peter Messinger (light and sound control) as part of the fifty-year commemoration of the Reichskristallnacht , the German November pogroms in 1938 , the evening-length concert “Commemoration of the Pogrom Night” (November 8-10) in front of around 300 spectators in today's Heinz auditorium -Berggruen-Gymnasium (at that time still Erich-Hoepner-Oberschule / Gymnasium ) with, among other things, the presentation of contemporary witness literature and Yiddish resistance songs , which found great resonance among Jews who were previously persecuted .
Two years earlier, as editor of the school newspaper of the school at the time - STULLE - under her real maiden name Solveig Kratzer at the instigation of Michael S. Cullen at a press conference under Rolf Bothe in the Berlin Museum, she conducted a first exclusive interview with the packaging artists Christo and Jeanne- Claude on their preparations for the Wrapped Reichstag project , which was finally implemented in the capital in 1995.

See also

literature

  • Inventory Charlottenburg . Berlin 1961, p. 299 f .
  • BusB VC 991 . In: Berlin and its buildings . 1991, p. 201, 418 .
  • Rolf Rave, Hans-Joachim Knöfel: Building since 1900 . G + H Verlag, 1968, ISBN 978-3-920597-02-7 , pp. Architects directory .

Web links

Commons : Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Berggruen High School. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, September 19, 2008, accessed on April 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  3. ^ Freisler haunted Berlin , Die Zeit, September 27, 1956
  4. ↑ Sofia Shteingold: A Yiddish singer in Berlin - people from all over the world talk about themselves . In: Inlaender - Newspaper for Understanding & Integration , No. 19, June 2008, p. 14.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bint-berlin.de  
  5. ↑ "SoHaR" ;-) Solveig oo Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harold HAMMER-SCHENK b. Solveig Kristin KRATZER, Berlin / D