Hermann Lietz School Spiekeroog

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Hermann Lietz School Spiekeroog
Spiekeroog-Lietz-Schule 2.jpg
Hermann Lietz School
type of school High school with boarding school
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
management Florian Fock
Website www.lietz-nordsee-internat.de
School building from the air

The Hermann-Lietz-Schule Spiekeroog (spelling: Hermann Lietz-Schule Spiekeroog ) is a state-recognized grammar school with boarding school on the East Frisian island of Spiekeroog in the district of Wittmund . The school is one of the five Hermann Lietz schools , but has been legally and economically independent from them since 1984. Like the other schools in this group, it is committed to Hermann Lietz's educational reform concept .

It was founded in 1928 by Alfred Andreesen , who was a close colleague of Hermann Lietz. In the spirit of the rural education center movement, the school was founded far away from the big cities. The brick buildings of the school are located roughly in the middle of the island, about two kilometers east of the village. The school is therefore, in addition to the isolation of the island itself, a kind of “island within the island”.

school

The Hermann-Lietz-Schule has around 90 pupils from the fifth grade onwards with the state high school diploma. Grades 5 to 7 are taught across grades with the children of the island school (Northern Lights program). Five to ten students live together in what is known as a family, which is looked after by a teacher. Since 2006, the school has also been accepting pupils for the fifth and sixth grades, who are taught in a nationally unique model together with the pupils of the Spiekerooger Inselschule.

The headmaster is Florian Fock.

Guilds and AGs

The school away from the village

The educational concept of the school includes so-called "guilds". The students have to work around three hours per week in one of these profitability-oriented groups, for example in the areas of boat building , dyke building , gardening or animal husbandry. The “OT” (Open Meeting), an in-house café and the “Beathaus”, an in-house disco that is open on Saturday evening, are also operated as a guild. There are also working groups (AG) that promote the individual interests of the students.

sailing

In the seventh and eighth grades, a 40-hour sailing course on the school's three dinghies is an integral part of the curriculum and an assessed subject. Subsequently, in the ninth and tenth grades, voluntary training as a boat driver is possible, which can be followed by the BR license examination at the German Sailing Association (DSV) and the sports boat license for the lake . The school's guilds also include the “Boat Building and Sailing Guild”, which is responsible for the repair and maintenance of the dinghies.

High Seas High School

The Johann Smidt 2007 off Lanzarote on her first voyage for High Seas High School

Since 1993, the will of the school outdoor education High Seas High School organized. Initially up to 30 pupils of the 11th grade (ages 15-18) from boarding schools and state high schools sail on a traditional ship from Germany via the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, to the South or Central American mainland and to Cuba and finally across the Azores back to Germany. In addition to a complete sailing training, the trips are characterized by lessons on board, which are related to the project and the guidelines of the 11th school year: On the six to seven month trips, the students are integrated into everyday life on board and the sailing maneuvers as fellow sailors on the other hand, receive regular school lessons on board (e.g. German, English, Spanish , mathematics, physics, etc.). Stays on land from the ports called (for example in Mexico , Costa Rica , Guatemala ) and short language courses on land provide deeper insights into the countries visited; During these times, the sailing ship is used for two-week trips with adult fellow sailors.

The voyages have so far taken place on different traditional ships : in the winter of 1993/1994 on the three-masted topsail schooner Fridtjof Nansen , then until 2006 on the three- masted topsail schooner Thor Heyerdahl (on which a similar project has been taking place since 2008, the “classroom under sails”). The “High Seas High School” trip 2000/01 was accompanied by a professional film team (director: Torsten Truscheit ); The recordings resulted in the documentary series Junge Herzen , which was broadcast on ZDF in 2002 . From 2007/2008 to 2014/2015, the two-masted schooner Johann Smidt was used for the project , supported by the Dutch brig Astrid in 2008/2009 . For the winter of 2015/2016 we switched to the brig Roald Amundsen .

In summer, three or four-week summer schools on traditional ships with sailing, English lessons and other shore activities are offered for younger pupils : From 2002 to 2006, a four-week "Summer High Seas High School" was held on the Thor Heyerdahl for seventh and eighth grade pupils. with destinations in the UK . Since then, the "Summer High Seas High School", like the Caribbean cruises for many years, has been offered on Clipper sailing ships, and more recently on the wooden ketch Seute Deern .

ecology

View over the school with the wind turbine
Hermann-Lietz-Schule courtyard with Vestas wind turbine

A core theme of the school concept is ecology. In 1986, an Aeroman wind turbine from MAN was installed for the first time with federal funds . The current wind turbine, a Vestas built in 1995 with a nominal output of 220 kW, supplies three times the amount of electricity required by the school. With a mast height of around 30 meters, it can also be seen from Neuharlingersiel in good weather . In the school year 1991/92, the students built the first solar panels to relieve the hot water supply on the roofs of the school. In addition, organic vegetables are grown and a seawater aquarium with local fish, crabs, crabs and mussels is looked after. In March 2006 an environmental education center ("Wittbülten") was opened on the school premises.

Former students and teachers

student

Teacher

Web links

Commons : Hermann Lietz-Schule Spiekeroog  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anke Lübbert: Metamorphosis by the sea . In: Time School & Education , No. 45, October 2016, p. 28.
  2. ↑ a b c Hermann Lietz School Spiekeroog: History of the Hermann Lietz School Spiekeroog . lietz-nordsee-internat.de; Retrieved April 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Michael J. Neufeld: Wernher von Braun. Visionary of space, engineer of war . 2009, p. 37-49 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ 6.4 "  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 39.2"  E