Jürg Jegge

Jürg Jegge (born July 29, 1943 in Zurich ) is a Swiss educator and author . He has also worked as a songwriter, television presenter and radio staff member.

Act

Jegge was a primary school teacher and a special school teacher in Embrach in the Zürcher Unterland for 20 years . His first work, Dummheit ist lernbar , appeared in 1976 and became a bestseller with more than 200,000 copies sold; For a long time it was considered a standard work of reform pedagogy and stood for pedagogy without constraints. The original German version was published in 28th editions until 2007 and has also been translated into several languages. To this day, Jegge has remained a sharp critic of the Swiss school system, accusing it of beating all children over a ledge and putting too much emphasis on their weaknesses. He advocates the thesis that training programs should be adapted to people and their individual strengths and not the other way around.

In 1985 he founded the Märtplatz Foundation in Freienstein , a vocational integration center for young people with «starting difficulties». After 26 years as Märtplatz manager , Jegge retired in 2011 and became honorary president of the foundation. Since then, Kuno Stürzinger has headed the Märtplatz .

Jegge lives in Rorbas and Vienna .

Sexual abuse of underage students

In April 2017, Jegge's former student Markus Zangger, together with the journalist Hugo Stamm, published the book Jürg Jegge's dark side, in which he accused him of years of sexual and psychological abuse. From a legal point of view, the attacks in the case of Markus Zangger over 30 years ago were statute-barred.

Jegge subsequently admitted to the media that there had been sexual contacts with Markus Zangger and other students, with a total of “less than ten”. He saw it as a form of therapy for children within the framework of reform pedagogy . He would no longer use this type of therapy today.

After the Board of Trustees distanced itself from Jegge, he resigned as Honorary President of the Märtplatz Foundation . The Zytglogge-Verlag , with which most of Jegge's books were published, stopped working with him. The public prosecutor dropped the child abuse proceedings against Jegge due to the statute of limitations, the costs were charged to Jegge by the public prosecutor, against which he first objected, but then accepted.

Awards (selection)

• 1977: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich .
• 1999: Robert Mächler Prize for critical education and humanitarian commitment.
• 2011: Doron Prize for his social commitment.

Works

• Stupidity can be learned. Experiences with «school failures». Zytglogge, Gümligen 1976; as paperback: ISBN 978-3-7296-0058-4 .
• Fear makes you crooked. Education or cog grinding. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1979; as paperback: ISBN 978-3-7296-0392-9 .
• Emphasis. Speeches, essays, etc. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1980, ISBN 3-7296-0118-0 .
• Bartli (children's book, with Dieter Kuhn ). Kaktus, Bern 1981, ISBN 3-906590-01-1 .
• 8424 Embrach. Our attempt to live there. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1982, ISBN 3-7296-0148-2 .
• Waste gold. About how to deal with “difficult young people”. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1991, ISBN 3-7296-0414-7 .
• About professional integration. From unwieldy people. Herbstpresse, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900476-21-7 .
• The curvature of the cucumber. People - not stackable. Zytglogge, Oberhofen am Thunersee 2006, ISBN 3-7296-0721-9 .
• Fit and ready. Against saving people and for an open future. Limmat, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85791-589-5 .

documentary

• Karin Bauer: The Jegge system. Abuse in the shadow of reform pedagogy. In: SRF 1 of October 5, 2017.

literature

• Markus Zangger: Jürg Jegge's dark side. The assaults of the model educator. Recorded by Hugo Stamm . Wörterseh, Gockhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-03763-080-8 .
• Florian Schoop: Fatal Freedoms for a Pedagogue , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 30, 2018, p. 32. + Interview with Markus Zangger.
• Damian Miller, Jürgen Oelkers (ed.): Can stupidity be learned? Re-reading of an educational bestseller. Zytglogge, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7296-5001-5 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Jürg Jegge  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Jürg Jegge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Jürg Jegge in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Entry about Jürg Jegge in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Author portrait from Zytglogge Verlag
• Christel Müller: Pressure on the weak is growing ( Memento from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: New Bülacher Tagblatt . February 9, 2007

Interviews

• Andrea Sailer: "The world around is different". In: Zürcher Unterländer . December 7, 2005 (Interview with Jürg Jegge on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Märtplatz Foundation ; PDF; 106 kB)
• Andrea Söldi: “There is a silver lining on the horizon”. In: Tages-Anzeiger , December 15, 2009 (Interview with Jürg Jegge on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Märtplatz Foundation )
• Rico Bandle: «Problem children are more interesting». In: Die Weltwoche . No. 36, September 8, 2016. (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Marcel Gyr, Angelika Hardegger: Jegge is no longer Honorary President of Märtplatz. In: NZZ Online. April 5, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Angelika Hardegger, Marcel Gyr: Happige allegations in book form. Allegations of abuse against the «teacher of the nation». In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 4th April 2017.
3. ↑ Visit to Jörg Jegge and his foundation: märtplatz. ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 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: eLearn.ch , March 5, 2010. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Märtplatz Foundation - Chronicle 1985 to 2015. ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2016 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: Website of the Märtplatz Foundation (PDF; 165 kB). 
5. ^ Märtplatz Foundation. Board of Trustees. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
6. ↑ Rico Bandle: «Problem children are more interesting». ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2018 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: Die Weltwoche . No. 36, September 8, 2016. (PDF)
7. ↑ Livio Brandenberg: allegations of abuse to the pedagogue Jürg Jegge. In: Lucerne newspaper . April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Serious allegations: Swiss star pedagogue is said to have abused boys for years. In: Aargauer Zeitung . April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Jürg Jegge admits sexual contact with "fewer than ten" students. In: Aargauer Zeitung of April 7, 2017.
10. ↑ Jürg Jegge: "There was sexual contact" In: Berner Zeitung of April 7, 2017.
11. ↑ Daniel Gerny: Abuse of a student: the fault is alone Jürg Jegge In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 7, 2017.
12. ↑ Marcel Gyr: Sexual abuse: Zytglogge-Verlag distances itself from Jürg Jegge In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 10, 2017.
13. ↑ Andreas Maurer: The suspicious underpants in Jürg Jegge's closet - and why he still did not come to court. In: Switzerland on the weekend of March 31, 2018.
14. ^ Entry about Jürg Jegge in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland . Retrieved April 7, 2017.
15. ↑ Laureates 2011 ( Memento from May 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Website of the Marc Rich Group .
16. ↑ The curvature of the cucumber. People - not stackable. In: Website of the Zytglogge Verlag (with table of contents).
17. ↑ Fit and ready. Against saving people and for an open future. In: Limmat Verlag website (with table of contents).
18. ↑ Liliane Minor: Jegge's therapy concept unmasked. In: Tages-Anzeiger from January 18, 2019.
19. ↑ Review From a special side: Counter-speech. Online in: FORVM April 2019.