Helene-Lange-Gymnasium (Hamburg)

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Helene-Lange-Gymnasium
Building of the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium (entirly) .jpg
type of school high school
founding 1910
address

Bogenstrasse 32

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '24 "  N , 9 ° 58' 25"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '24 "  N , 9 ° 58' 25"  E
carrier Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
student approx. 900
Teachers approx. 75
management Holger Muller
Website www.hlg-hamburg.de

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium Hamburg (short: HLG ) is a state high school in the southwest of the Hamburg district Harvestehude , on the border with Eimsbüttel . It was founded in 1910 as a state secondary school for girls and has been open to boys since 1969. Between 1910 and 1957 the name of the school changed a total of seven times. The grammar school has been a member of the network of UNESCO project schools since 1954 . This makes the school the oldest UNESCO project school in Germany . The school maintains school partnerships with schools in Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania ), Osaka ( Japan ), Havana ( Cuba ), Chicago ( USA ) and London ( Great Britain ). In all classes, from the seventh year onwards, some of the subjects are taught in English . In addition, it is possible for 24 students from all over Hamburg to take the International Baccalaureate (IB) at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium. With this degree in English, students can study at many international universities around the world. At the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium there are a total of 26 class groups and other upper-level courses in nine grades. The school has been an all-day school since 2003 .

building

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium was built between 1908 and 1910, the architect was Albert Erbe . The architecture was largely based on the buildings of the secondary schools for boys. But since the class frequency was only 30 instead of 50, as was usual in boys' schools, the classrooms were smaller. The classrooms are therefore relatively small for today's standards. Erbe also designed a smaller gym, which is still used today in a restored form. Another part of the physical education takes place today in the nearby sports hall in Bogenstrasse and in the sports hall of the upper level building.

The number of students is limited due to the size of the building, so registrations for the fifth grade must be rejected. In the school building there is an auditorium and several specialist rooms for music and natural sciences. The former Bismarckgymnasium is used as an upper school building, where most of the upper school lessons take place. This school building, founded in 1906, was also designed by Albert Erbe.

canteen

Due to the extended school hours due to the eight-stage Abitur , the school management introduced a 50-minute lunch break. To use the break, the school converted the entire basement. The cost of the renovation was € 410,000, some of which was borne by the proceeds from a sponsored walk for the student body. The basement can be freely used as a lounge. There is also a canteen there that offers both hot and cold cuisine.

In the upper level building there was also a canteen until 2013, in which hot meals could also be bought.

history

prehistory

There have been higher girls’s schools in Hamburg since 1872 . The St. Johannis monastery school was founded in 1872 and the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium in 1897. Both schools were made possible by private foundations. Due to the success, on June 22, 1904, a civil request was formulated to the Hamburg Senate , in which it was asked for the establishment of state higher schools for girls. The Senate then decided on January 15, 1908 to establish two state high schools for girls. As a result, the Lyceum Lerchenfeld (today Gymnasium Lerchenfeld ) and today's Helene-Lange-Gymnasium were created.

Beginnings

On April 1, 1910, the Senate opened today's Helene-Lange-Gymnasium under the name of the State Higher Girls' School on Hansastrasse . In 1913 the Hamburg city council decided to rename the school into a lyceum. The school was then called Lyzeum with Studienanstalt on Hansastraße . From now on there were three parallel classes for the lower three grades and two classes each for the upper two grades.

Since the teaching staff wanted a namesake for the school, the school had to be renamed from a lyceum to an upper secondary school. In 1926, for a short time, the school was called the Girls' Secondary School on Hansastrasse . At the request of the teaching staff, the Senate confirmed the renaming to Helene-Lange-Oberrealschule in the same year. A big disadvantage of the old name was that the school is not even a tenth on Hansastraße (today Helene-Lange-Straße) and there is no entrance on this side. In the same year Emmy Beckmann became headmistress, making her the first woman to become headmistress of a state secondary school in Hamburg. When she was appointed high school councilor just a year later - again as the first woman - her twin sister Hanna took over the management of the school.

The school is named Helene Lange

The school was first named Helene-Lange in 1927

The renaming ceremony took place on February 2, 1927. Since then, with the exception of the years 1935 to 1945, the women's rights activist and pedagogue Helene Lange has been named . The then 78-year-old namesake took part in the celebration and gave a speech in which she made it clear to the students how much their situation has changed compared to previous generations:

“… You have one thing ahead of previous women: the possibility of thorough intellectual work and thus the possibility of independent shaping of your inner and outer life. That is now completely taken from you, this passive waiting to see where fate will push you. "

Jewish religious education

In 1928 Bruno Italiener , a teacher at the Helene-Lange-Oberrealschule, formulated a request to the high school authorities in which he called for Jewish religious instruction. The request was not granted, but an offer was made to use the school's classrooms free of charge for religious instruction after the end of regular classes. Further applications were submitted to the school authorities during the year. As a result, a survey was started to determine the student body's interest in Jewish religious education. Based on this result, the authorities decided on April 17, 1929 to introduce Jewish religious education as a school subject at the Heinrich-Hertz-Realgymnasium (today's Heinrich-Hertz-Schule) and at the Helene-Lange-Oberrealschule for the school year 1929/1930 . Lessons at both schools were led by the rabbis Italian and Paul Holzer. Until 1933, Jewish religious instruction was introduced at only two other state schools in Hamburg.

time of the nationalsocialism

The headmistress Hanna Beckmann was removed from office by the National Socialist regime in 1933. The successor Viktor Grüber called for the school to be renamed again, as the old name was no longer “up to date”. In 1935, during the celebration of the school's 25th anniversary, the school was renamed Hansa-Oberrealschule . During the celebration, the headmaster praised that the school was inspired by the new spirit. He emphasized that a fifth of the girls are already members of the Association of German Girls . In February of the same year he submitted an application to the school authorities that a change from the lower school to the higher school counted as a new registration. This should ensure that the proportion of officially newly registered Jewish schoolgirls is over 1.5% of the total number of schoolchildren. This would have enabled the headmaster to expel Jewish students from the school. However, this request was not granted. He later made further requests to expel individual students from the school. In 1938 it was deemed necessary to rename the school again. So the school got the name Hansa-Schule, secondary school for girls (linguistic form) . The school principal personally ordered that anti-Semitic texts be read in class.

Development of the proportion of Jewish schoolgirls

By 1933 nearly 300 Jewish pupils had passed through the school. The proportion of Jewish schoolgirls in the 1910s was about 15 percent. This proportion sank to less than 0.5 percent after 1935. In January 1933, 40 “fully Jewish” and ten “half-Jewish” students attended the school. Seven of them were able to take their final exams until 1936.

In 1937 and 1938 there were no more Jewish students at the school. Between 1933 and 1943, 65 Jewish, “non-Aryan” or “mixed-blood” girls left school, most of them voluntarily. Several retraining courses were carried out - even in the middle of the school year - at the Israelite Girls' School, in an environment “in which Jewish children’s everyday school life was not poisoned by intolerance.” Almost all of the fifty pupils who attended school in 1933 were able to emigrate and survived the Holocaust . Marion Werner was a Lutheran Protestant, but was classified as "non-Aryan" by the authorities and therefore had to leave school in autumn 1938, shortly after the official decision to exclude all "Jewish" children from schools. She and her parents were taken to the Litzmannstadt ghetto ( Łódź ) on October 25, 1941 , where she died. In 1991, 50 years after the deportation, a memorial plaque was put up in the school at the suggestion of the German-Jewish Society to commemorate the fate of Marion Werner. Despite the official ban, two “non-Aryan” students stayed at the school until autumn 1940. There were also seven "mixed bloods" who stayed at the school until 1943. They were covered by teachers.

Post war history

After the end of the war, on November 7, 1945, the school was renamed the Helene-Lange-Schule . Since then, the school has had its namesake in the school name again. Like all schools in Hamburg, the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium was controlled by the British military government shortly after classes were resumed . The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium has been the first German recognized UNESCO project school since 1954 . The reason for the choice was, on the one hand, that the UNESCO Institute for Pedagogy was in Hamburg and that the name "Helene Lange" can be ideally associated with the themes and ideology of UNESCO. In 1957 the school was renamed for the last time. Since then the school has been called Helene-Lange-Gymnasium . In 1969 co-education was introduced. The following year the Eimsbüttler model was founded. Also in 1970 there were bilingual classes for the first time at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium. Since 2003, up to 24 students have been able to take the International Baccalaureate (IB for short) at the school .

The school today

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium teaches around 900 students from many nations from the fifth grade to the Abitur, i.e. currently up to the twelfth grade.

About 75 teachers are available for teaching. There are a total of 25 classes in the lower and middle grades and other upper grades.

English is the first foreign language for all students from grade five. From year six onwards, either Latin or French is taught as a second foreign language. A third foreign language is not compulsory, but can be chosen from grade ten. The foreign languages Spanish and Japanese are offered .

In addition to the regular subjects, other subjects are offered in the compulsory elective area. Depending on the grade level, it is possible, for example, to take the subjects of stock exchange, performing games, mediation , volume, business practice and computer science.

Eimsbüttler model

Building of the former Bismarck High School, where most of the upper school classes take place

The Eimsbüttler model has been a joint upper level of the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium, the Gymnasium Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer and the Bismarckgymnasium since 1970 . After the Bismarckgymnasium closed, the project was continued by the other two schools. Almost all of the upper level classes take place in the upper level building, the building of the former Bismarck high school. With over 600 students, the Eimsbüttler model, in which some teachers and students from the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium also participate, is the largest upper school in Hamburg. This has the advantage that due to the large number of teachers and students participating in the system, the range of courses is much larger than in smaller systems. The Eimsbüttler model will also be continued with the introduction of the upper level profile for the 2009/2010 school year. The two schools together offer eight to ten profiles.

Bilingual teaching

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium was the first bilingual school in Hamburg. Since 1970, some subjects have been taught in English. Initially, bilingual classes were optional. However, since 1996 it has been compulsory for all students. In order to prepare and support subject teaching in English, students from grade five receive extended English lessons. From grade seven, history is taught in English. Geography and biology are added in grades eight and nine. If a new subject is taught in English, this takes place in the first year with one lesson per week than usual. The same curriculum is fulfilled in class as in monolingual high schools. Linguistic errors are usually not included in the grading.

International Baccalaureate

As part of the Eimsbüttler model, it is possible for high school students to complete the so-called International Baccalaureate (IB for short). The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium is the first state school in Hamburg to offer this special and internationally recognized university entrance. To take advantage of the offer, you have to apply. In the selection process, school performance, social behavior, motivation and extracurricular activities of the applicants are assessed. The offer was made possible by the successful bilingual teaching and the work as a UNESCO project school for international understanding. There is no free choice of subjects. The three subjects at the higher level are biology, English and German. In addition to the IB, all students must also complete the normal German Abitur. With the introduction of the upper level profile in the 2009/2010 school year, the offer was integrated into the International Baccalaureate profile . The three subjects at an elevated level were retained. For the Hamburg Abitur, biology must be taken as a four-hour profile subject. The costs amount to 26,000 euros annually, of which the Hamburg school authorities take over the majority, so that the individual student only has to pay the 650 euros examination fees. In order to preserve the chance of the IB for socially disadvantaged students as well, a support association with extracurricular organizations was set up, which, if necessary, takes over the examination costs.

Career orientation

As part of the vocational orientation, all students in the ninth grade complete a three-week internship. All upper school students also take part in a career orientation trip to Sylt, where the topic is dealt with intensively for five days. The subject economics can also be taken (in grade ten in the third elective area and in the upper level as a subject at the basic level), which conveys economic relationships.

Partner schools

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium has partner schools on four continents. On the one hand, the school maintains lively contact and student exchanges with schools in English-speaking countries. Schools include Lake Park High School (in Chicago ), City of London School ( London ) and Sevenoaks School in Kent . As part of the exchange with the City of London School, there is also the offer of a short company internship for 11th grade students. English students come to Hamburg as an exchange.

On September 23, 2009 a school partnership agreement between the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium and the Asahi High School was signed. Asahi High School is located in Osaka, Japan. Student exchanges have been taking place between the two schools for several years.

As part of its activities as a UNESCO project school, the high school established a school partnership with the Kiluvya Secondary School in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania .

Media education

In the fifth grade, all students have computer lessons in which they acquire basic computer skills. In the upper school, in cooperation with the Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer grammar school, the subject of computer science is offered as an elective. The topics there are programming in Java, cryptology , simulation and robotics . The school also has a website that provides general information about the school as well as current dates such as parents' evenings and the current substitution plan.

Working groups

There are many working groups at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium. Among them are scientific, artistic, mathematical, sporting, linguistic and social offers for all grades.

Participation in several student competitions is made possible as part of lessons or working groups. For example, students take part in the Mathematics Olympiad , Jugend Forscht and Jugend debattiert . The students participate particularly actively and successfully in the annual foreign language competition. In recent years, national victories have been won both in the foreign language competition and in the youth debates.

Choir

In 1997 a choir school was introduced. From the fifth grade to the Abitur, over 200 students attend one of the four graded choirs (Choir 5, Choir 6, Middle School Choir, Upper School Choir). For talented students there are opportunities for targeted voice training and extracurricular performances in the CANTiLENE children's choir. This choir has been involved in some major professional productions outside of school. It is possible for students in the tenth grade as well as the upper grades to choose choir as a course subject.

Mediation

Mediation is offered at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium as a subject in the third free elective area. The aim of this subject is to attract students who, after training as a mediator, try to resolve minor conflicts between their classmates in a mediation meeting. A room is available for this, which is occupied by mediators during breaks.

Wenningstedt school camp

School camp in Wenningstedt

In 1920 the Bismarck-Gymnasium founded a school camp in Wenningstedt on Sylt . After the Bismarck-Gymnasium was closed and all of its facilities were taken over by the Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer and the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium, these two schools together run the school camp. The plot is 20,000 m². The country home is used regularly for school and summer trips.

additional

There is also a school association at the school that supports financially disadvantaged students in paying for school events that are subject to a fee. Schoolchildren have the opportunity to purchase school clothes. Since the school year 2008, the school management has been publishing the information sheet Spotlight every quarter, which provides information on the latest at the school. Which appears annually at Christmas Yearbook "Yearbook". There is currently no school newspaper published by students.

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium as a UNESCO project school

Statue ( UNESCO ball ) in front of the school building

The Helene-Lange-Gymnasium has been a member of the international school project since 1954, the umbrella organization of which is the UN special agency UNESCO . This makes the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium the first school in Germany and the second in the world to be part of the global network of now 200 schools.

Work at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium

The work of the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium as a UNESCO project school is broad. It supports schools in developing countries, takes part in various projects and communicates the values ​​of UNESCO to the student body. Teachers, parents and students are involved.

There are two working groups for students for different age groups. These groups work on a wide variety of ecological, economic, social, political and cultural topics. It is particularly often about children's rights and poverty as well as animal welfare . The school is also committed to combating racist prejudice and has been a non-racist school since 2012 . The work of the working groups consists in informing themselves and then the entire student body. In addition, there is participation in various actions and competitions of humanitarian organizations. Often the entire student body is involved in activities. The organization and implementation of these activities and competitions is also done by the school groups. Furthermore, some older students of the UNESCO AG are given the opportunity to take part in various international UNESCO student seminars.

The school also takes part in the international project days that take place every two years . For this purpose, a project day or an action is carried out in the school and the celebration that takes place in the St. Michaelis Church is involved.

The grammar school has been providing financial support to schools in developing countries for a long time. The money is collected at various benefit events. For example, a Christmas bazaar is held annually, with annual revenues in the four-digit range. Schools in Cuba , Brazil , Gambia , Sri Lanka and Tanzania have already received money from the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium.

Project Tanzania

A project in Gambia was supported for years, but it was terminated due to coordination problems. However, as there was still the desire to support a project in Africa , a meeting with the Kiluvya Secondary School , a secondary school in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , took place in autumn 2006 with the aim of building a long-term partnership. Two members of the school administration and 11th grade students attended this first meeting. This partnership was also of political interest, as Hamburg and Dar es Salaam entered into an official city ​​partnership in 2010 . The City of Hamburg also supported the school partnership financially. An annual exchange has been taking place since 2007. In 2008, as part of one of these visits, the headmistresses of both schools signed an official school partnership. In the summer of 2009 Hamburg's Second Mayoress Christa Goetsch visited the Kiluvya Secondary School as part of a delegation trip in which a teacher from the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium also took part .

level

The level at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium is considered high. One reason is the bilingual teaching. In addition, the students did very well in the Central Abitur , which was introduced in 2001 . High school graduates have repeatedly achieved the best average grade in Hamburg.

Well-known alumni

Student:

Teacher:

  • Emmy Beckmann , headmistress 1926/27, politician and women's rights activist

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Cf. Forum 3/2003 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. Newspaper of the UNESCO project schools p. 9. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.up-schulen.de
  2. List of all-day schools in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. on. www.ganztagsschulen.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ganztagsschulen.org
  3. See Dieter skull (ed. For the Fritz-Schumacher Institute): How the work of art Hamburg came about. P. 91.
  4. ^ A b Christoph Scheurmann: Global City Hamburg: Die Welt-Schüler . In: Wissen.spiegel.de. August 20, 2007.
  5. Helene-Lange-Kantine: On the first day there was turkey . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 16, 2004.
  6. See Hermann Hipp, DuMont art travel guide for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster (p. 387)
  7. ^ Vg. Ernst Christian Schütt: The Chronicle of Hamburg. P. 370.
  8. a b c Wilhelm Mosel Buildings Integral to the Former Life and / or Persecution of Jews in Hamburg - Eimsbüttel / Rotherbaum I.
  9. ^ Ina Lorenz: The Jews in Hamburg at the time of the Weimar Republic. Volume 2, pp. 746 f, 772 f.
  10. See Uwe Schmidt: Active for the high school. P. 365.
  11. Helga Raape: The fate of Jewish students and teachers at the Helene Lange School. In: Reiner Lehberger , Hans-Peter de Lorent (ed.): “Raise the flag” School policy and everyday school life in Hamburg under the swastika. Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-18-7 , p. 332 (first published in: 50 Jahre Helene-Lange-Schule. Hamburg 1960, p. 8 ff)
  12. Helga Raape: The fate of Jewish students .... p. 332.
  13. See Harald Vieth: Here they lived together ... in Harvestehude-Rotherbaum. P. 74 f.
  14. See Schmidt p. 677
  15. a b A school with world level on Welt Online from September 9, 2003.
  16. Is the Eimsbüttler model about to end? on: Abendblatt.de , January 15, 2010.
  17. Helene-Lange-Gymnasium on www.schulweb.de
  18. We are doing a high school diploma that is valid all over the world. on www.abendblatt.de from April 27, 2004.
  19. Helene-Lange-Gymnasium: 19 graduated from high school in English. on: Abendblatt.de , September 5, 2005.
  20. Lake Park ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lphs.dupage.k12.il.us
  21. THE HAMBURG SCHOOL EXCHANGE on the school website of the City of London School (English)
  22. News ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2007 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. on hlg-hamburg.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hlg-hamburg.de
  23. Offer on hlg-hamburg.de
  24. About us ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at nordseeheim-wenningstedt.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nordseeheim-wenningstedt.de
  25. Carsten Vitt: Helene-Lange-Gymnasium becomes “School without Racism” ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 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. . In: Elbe Wochenblatt. May 10, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elbe-wochenblatt.de
  26. ^ Anti-racism title: Helene-Lange-Gymnasium "courageous school" . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. April 20, 2012.
  27. Address pool on Tansania-network.de
  28. hamburg.de
  29. ^ Tanzania - two weeks as a guest in Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . November 26, 2005.
  30. a b Hamburg's new friends on the Indian Ocean on Welt.de from June 11, 2009.
  31. Cooperation with Dar es Salaam / Tanzania on Entwicklungspolitik.hamburg.de from April 20, 2007.
  32. Cooperation with Dar es Salaam / Tanzania  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) on gal-fraktion.de from December 19, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gal-fraktion.de  
  33. Gymnasium invites you to Africa Evening on Abendblatt.de on February 7, 2008.
  34. Hamburg's Abi average is 2.6 on Abendblatt.de from June 24, 2004.
  35. Abitur 2007: Less diarrhea on Abendblatt.de from July 10, 2007.
  36. Our plans, our goals on mopo.de from July 15, 2008.
  37. Hamburg's Abitur average of 2.49 is the best in years. on: Abendblatt.de , July 8, 2010.
  38. 22 questions to Frederik Braun on welt.de from July 13, 2009.
  39. Don't say anything now, Jan Delay ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin from July 12, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de
  40. Career of Prof. Dr. Laszlo Goerke on wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de
  41. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt: Reinhard Grindel from Harvestehude: The President
  42. Åsa Larsson: Weisse Nacht ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2007 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. on literaturkreis.eu from August 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literatur approximately.eu
  43. Beckmann's biography ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on biografien-news.blog.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / biografien-news.blog.de