Goethe School Wetzlar

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Goethe School
logo
Former building
type of school Upper secondary school
founding 1799
address

Bergstrasse 45 (temporarily)

place Wetzlar
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 33 '11 "  N , 8 ° 30' 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '11 "  N , 8 ° 30' 40"  E
carrier District committee of the Lahn-Dill district
student 1240 (school year 2012/13)
management Carsten Scherlass
Website www.goetheschule-wetzlar.eu

The Goetheschule is the general upper level high school for the city and the old district of Wetzlar . It was built in 1799 and is now the largest upper secondary school in Hessen .

The Goetheschule is the only independent upper-level high school in the Lahn-Dill district and the largest of its kind in Hesse with over 1000 students in the introductory and qualification phase. Goetheschule pupils can choose from a range of 17 performance subjects. A visit to the Goethe School leads to a general university entrance qualification .

School history

In 1799 a so-called secondary school was opened in Wetzlar in the building of the Masonic Lodge Joseph zu den drei Helmen (corner of Zucker- and Kornblumengasse). It is considered to be the basis of today's Goethe School. In 1810 the private high school was combined with a Catholic school to form a public royal high school . In 1819 the first high school graduates left the grammar school, which had been housed in the Arnsburger Hof since 1817 . When the company moved into a new building in the same location in 1872, an average of five to nine high school graduates passed their exams each year. Between the street and the Bergstraße No. 45 building, a war victims memorial commemorates the teachers and students who died in World War I in 1914/1918

In 1925, at the request of the school principal and the teaching staff, the Royal High School was named the State Goethe High School . Four years later, it merged with the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule on the so-called Spilburg grounds to form the state-owned Goethe-Gymnasium with a Stein advanced school .

In the time of National Socialism , the Goetheschule had to return to the Arnsburger Hof due to its military use as the Spilburg barracks . As a result of the law on the unification of the higher education system , it lost its humanistic character. In 1939 the grammar school on today's Bergstrasse received a new building. After the beginning of the Second World War , the school principal and numerous teachers, and from 1940 also students, were drawn into the war. In November 1944, heavy bombing damage to the school building put an end to the already limited lessons. By the end of the war, 300 Goethe students lost their lives in the various theaters of war. In December 1945, the high school reopened with the approval of the American military government, which had confiscated the school building.

In 1966 the Goetheschule moved to its current location on Frankfurter Strasse. At the time, the school building was one of the largest and most modern in Germany. In the course of the introduction of the integrated comprehensive schools in the district of Wetzlar, the district council decided in 1969 that the students of the comprehensive schools should be admitted to a new upper secondary school GOW . In 1975 the first grade 11 of the comprehensive schools was accepted into the new upper secondary school in the building of the Goethe School. The school building had been modified for this task and an extension was added.

When, in 1977, the last group of students who attended grammar schools at the beginning of class 5 obtained the Abitur, the Goetheschule (boys 'high school) and the lottery school (girls ' high school), which had existed since 1909, ceased to exist. The high school was given back its traditional name on June 6, 1978 by the district president in Darmstadt based on a resolution by the district council. Since then it is no longer called GOW, but again as the Goethe School.

It maintains a partnership with the Goetheschule Ilmenau .

Since August 1, 2014, Carsten Scherlaß has been the new headmaster to succeed Dieter Grebe. The senior director of studies previously headed the Liebig School in Giessen .

The school building has been in great need of renovation for years. For a long time , the Lahn-Dill district ignored an earlier statement by the school authorities that a new building would have to be occupied by 2013 for security reasons . Instead, only isolated renovation measures were carried out on the ceilings and the so-called fire protection established.

For the 2018/2019 school year, the Goetheschule temporarily moved to the building of the former Kestnerschule at the Bergstrasse location, as the building on Frankfurter Strasse is being demolished and replaced by a new building. However, some of the lessons continue to take place at the previous location or in the premises of the other schools at the school center there. Accordingly, the terms “Goetheschule (Bergstrasse location)” and “Goetheschule (Frankfurter Strasse location)” are used in school operations.

Musical group

The musical group has existed since 1979 and, according to its own information, is the oldest amateur musical group in Germany. It was founded by English teacher Peter Merck (* 1939 in Darmstadt) and music teacher Peter Marschall (1932–2019). Merck has been an actor and journalist at the English-language The Keller Theater in Gießen since 1964. Peter Merck headed the group until 1993, since 1995 the group has been working independently.

Since 1979 the musical group has performed productions annually - with the exception of 1985 and 1994. The group has consisted of students from the Goethe School, alumni and foreigners since 1994. The performances of the pieces take place at the end of the school year in the school auditorium and, since 1995, at the Wetzlar Festival . Until 1991 the group also gave guest performances in Gießen, Braunfels, Büdingen and Fulda.

The productions also include the German premieres of Andrew Lloyd Webber's " Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat " in 1980, Lionel Bart's " Oliver! " In 1981, Nick Munns' "Swan Esther" in 1986 and Harvey Schmidt's "Celebration" in 1987, the European one First performance of the South African musical "Christian" in 1982 and the German-language premiere of "Moby Dick" in 2002. In 2020 the musical group will perform the piece Atomic for the first time in Europe .

In the musical group, among others, the director, dramaturge and actor Christoph Drewitz , the tenor, musical performer and singing teacher Christian Schleicher , the musical performer Kurosch Abbasi , the conductors Martin Spahr and Jesko Sirvend gained their first stage experience.

Personalities

Well-known graduates

Teachers, professors and directors

literature

  • State Goetheschool Wetzlar. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the institution . Wetzlar 1953

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Log Chronicle. Masonic Lodge Wilhelm on the three helmets i.Or. Wetzlar CR, archived from the original on February 10, 2018 ; accessed on February 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b press information. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Particular preference for bizarre and weird characters. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 6, 2016 ; accessed on May 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Festspiele_Spielplaene_seit_1953. (PDF) Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  5. ^ Gießener Allgemeine, February 4, 1980
  6. ^ Gießener Anzeiger, February 5, 1980
  7. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of June 18, 1980
  8. ↑ 1981: Oliver! Retrieved November 28, 2017 (German).
  9. ↑ 1985/86: Swan Esther. Retrieved November 28, 2017 (German).
  10. ↑ 1987: Celebration. Retrieved November 28, 2017 (German).
  11. ^ "The Star," Johannesburg, May 10, 1982
  12. ^ "The Star," Johannesburg, May 2, 1982
  13. ^ Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung from June 9, 1982
  14. ^ Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung
  15. ↑ 1997: Glory. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  16. ↑ 1996: The Beauty and the Beast. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  17. ↑ 2007: Assassins. Accessed November 14, 2017 (German).
  18. ↑ 2009: Jekyll & Hyde. Accessed November 14, 2017 (German).
  19. ↑ "Beauty and the Beast" - musical group from the Goetheschule, Wetzlar . In: Musicals - Das Musical Magazin . October 2004, p. 82 .
  20. ↑ Johann Samuelansch (ed.), Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner (arrangement): Wiedasch (Ernst) , in this .: The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the German writers now living , starting with Georg Christoph Hamberger, continued by Johann Georg Meusel, vol 21, 5th, increased and improved edition, Lemgo: Verlag der Meyerschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1827, p. 545; Preview over google books
  21. ^ Archives for Hessian History and Archeology , Volume 10, self-published by the Historisches Verein für das Großherzogtum Hessen, 1914, pp. 148, 263; Preview over google books