Queen Luise Foundation
| Queen Luise Foundation | |
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| type of school | Primary school, integrated secondary school, high school |
| founding | 1811 |
| address |
Podbielskiallee 78 |
| place | Berlin-Dahlem |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '37 " N , 13 ° 18' 8" E |
| student | about 840 |
| Website | www.koenigin-luise-stiftung.de |
The Queen Luise Foundation comprises three state-approved, privately owned schools and a boarding school in Berlin-Dahlem . The non-profit Queen Luise Foundation is itself the sponsor of the schools (elementary school, secondary school with upper level, elementary grammar school) and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz Diakonie.
history
The Foundation was at Louise's first death on July 19, 1811 under the name "Luise-Stiftung" as educational - institution for female educators founded. In memory of Queen Luise , who died in 1810 , she bears her name. The foundation should not be confused with the " Luisenstift ", an educational institution for poor boys, founded in 1807 while Luisen was still alive .
Originally, further Luisen foundations were to be established in other cities, but this was not crowned with the hoped-for success. In Berlin , however, the foundation continued to develop. At the beginning 25 students were looked after by 6 teachers, in 1830 there were already 55 students. At that time it was very progressive that physical exercises and even swimming were taught to girls at all and then also .
Girls from needy families and orphans were exempt from school fees of 200 thalers per year .
At the beginning, the Luisen Foundation was housed in the former Palais of Baron de Vernezobre on Wilhelmstrasse and the corner of Kochstrasse , but had to move in 1830 after Prince Albrecht claimed the palace . In 1867 the Luisen Foundation moved into a house built by Georg Heinrich Bürde in Markgrafenstrasse. On June 13, 1907, the new building on Podbielskiallee in Dahlem was handed over after the previous location on Markgrafenstraße had become too small. In the presence of Empress Auguste Viktoria , the foundation was renamed the Queen Luise Foundation on the occasion .
The Oberlyzeum Foundation has been in operation since 1928 .
After the Second World War , the Red Army briefly used the little damaged property, but teaching began again on May 28, 1945. The school, located in the American sector , was also attended by girls from East Berlin and the GDR until the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 .
The construction of a primary school began in 1953, and the Königin-Luise-Stiftung has not been a purely girls' school since 1956. In 1982 the Realschule was established, which became an integrated secondary school in 2011 as part of the Berlin school reform.
The school today
Today the Königin-Luise-Stiftung consists of three schools: a primary school, an integrated secondary school with an upper level and an undergraduate grammar school . The Königin-Luise-Stiftung also has a boarding school that accepts students of all grades; up to 56 of the almost 900 students are so-called internal students. All schools, as well as the boarding school, are located on the campus at Podbielskiallee in Berlin-Dahlem.
In the primary school sector, two Montessori classes are offered in addition to the regular classes .
The 5th and 6th grades of the Gymnasium have two classes, the 7th to 10th grades of the Gymnasium and the secondary school have three classes. The transition to the grammar school can already take place after the 4th grade, since the grammar school of the Königin-Luise-Stiftung has a basic structure. The class frequency of the schools is around 20 students. In addition to all other degrees, the Königin-Luise-Stiftung offers the Abitur in 12 and 13 years.
The upper secondary school, which comprises around 120 students, is a. characterized by a range of subjects that also includes advanced courses in art and political science, additional courses such as “text production”, “film” and the subjects of economics and philosophy.
The guiding principle of the schools is "Being yourself - with one another - getting ahead". According to the school management, it refers to the spirit of shared learning, the permeability of the various types of school and the quality concept of the 200-year-old foundation.
The school fee is based on income and is currently 100 to 355 euros per month, although there may be total exemption from school fees. Sibling discounts are granted upon request.
The Abitur average was z. B. 2017 with 2.2 for high school (ISS: 2.8) better than the Berlin average. The pass rate for qualifications by boarding school students is traditionally very high.
The work in the foundation is supported by a socio-educational network and a school station (“school oasis”).
Projects
The Queen Luise Foundation is a UNESCO project school and is involved in a variety of ways.
Students and parents, as well as the staff support z. B. the teaching project "Perspectives on Syria", which u. a. Promotes lessons for many Syrian children by trained teachers in a refugee village in Turkey. There is a lively exchange with a partner school in France and the Trialog project brings young people from Germany, Poland and Israel together. Since 2017, a partnership has developed with a school on Borneo, with which a wide variety of projects are to be worked on together, mainly via digital contacts.
As part of the compulsory elective courses in ethics / religion, the project "Responsibility" is carried out across schools in grade 8. With the support of the Bertelsmann Foundation's jungbewegt initiative, it promotes volunteer work by schoolchildren. As part of an internship in the second half of the year, these students take on a. Tasks in old people's homes or other charitable institutions.
In 2017, the KLS golf team achieved sixth place in the national finals in the “Youngsters train for the Olympics ”.
Former students
- Minu Barati (film producer)
- Alice von Gaudy (writer)
- Klaus Herlitz (entrepreneur)
- Paul Herwig (actor)
- Raúl Richter (actor)
- Bettina Röhl (journalist)
- Mike Zobrys (film actor)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Hentschel: Help for impoverished girls in Brandenburger Blätter (supplement to the Märkische Oderzeitung ), April 9, 2010, p. 14
- ↑ Gernot Ernst and Ute Laur-Ernst: The city of Berlin in print graphics , Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 151, ISBN 978-3-86732-055-9