Kaiser Karl School (Itzehoe)
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1866 |
| address |
Behind the Sandberg 1–3 |
| place | Itzehoe |
| country | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 55 '31 " N , 9 ° 31' 20" E |
| carrier | City of Itzehoe |
| student | approx. 750 |
| Teachers | 60 |
| management | Regina Huebinger |
| Website | www.kks-itzehoe.de |
The Kaiser-Karl-Schule (KKS) in Itzehoe is a municipal high school for boys and girls in which around 800 students are taught by around 60 teachers. The school director is Regina Hübinger. There is a wide range of working groups in the KKS, such as an internationally active theater group, a basketball group, an art group and a volleyball group. The Kaiser-Karl-Schule is a support school of the Enrichment -verbund Steinburg and bears the title of European School and Culture School.
building
The school located in the center of Itzehoe has an old building with teachers' rooms and classrooms, as well as the auditorium, a new building for the orientation level with grades 5 and 6, a scientific building for biology and chemistry, two sports halls and the so-called pavilions for grades 10 to 12. An extension with a cafeteria and new physics and IT rooms was completed in April 2012.
history
The school was founded in 1866 as the Municipal Evangelical Realschule and was recognized as a Higher Citizens School as early as 1869 . From 1903 to 1909 there was an expansion to a reform secondary school with secondary school. In 1909 the first Abitur certificates were issued. In 1910 the name Kaiser-Karl-Schule was approved. In 1920 the state took over the school, but since 1982 it has been urban again. In 1955 one began to row in a rowing team. The school had its boats (two gig strap fours ) in a small shed on the Störwiesen. This was abandoned in 1972 and the boats were housed in the boathouse of the Itzehoer Rowing Club from 1966 .
Media interest
In 2010, the satirical program Extra3 filmed a report about the school's expensive, then new lighting system. This didn't work properly and so the students often sat in dark classrooms during the winter months.
Theater group
The KKS theater group was started more than 40 years ago by Doris Brandt-Kühl and is still led by her. Until the premiere in 2004, the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare was rehearsed, which was performed on May 23, 2014 for the last time. In the summer of 2014, the group traveled to the United States with the English-language version of the play and had great success there. On February 8th, 2008 the premiere of the in-house production "North of the Arctic Circle is Hamarøy" was celebrated in theater itzehoe . In February 2009 the theater group performed "Der Kick" , a modern play about a neo-Nazi incident in Brandenburg in 2002. On February 13, 2010, the premiere of the play "What you want" by William Shakespeare took place with great success . In 2013 the theater group performed ["1,2,3"]. The next premiere was "Extremely Loud and Unbelievably Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer in an in-house production on February 6, 2016 in theater itzehoe. The second performance took place on May 20, 2016. The next piece (an operetta) is called "Die Banditen" and was written by Jacques Offenbach. The premiere took place on February 11, 2017, followed by a second performance on May 13, 2017, also in the theater itzehoe. In 2018 the Theater AG went. with "Die Banditen" in English on another US tour in cooperation with the "Blue-Lake Fine Arts Camp Michigan" (in Middleville, Linden, Sebewaing, Freeport). The event ended with three days in Chicago with the entire group. The next project with the "Blue-Lake Fine Arts Camp" is due in 2019, but this time in Germany. From June 22nd to 25th the symphony orchestra came to Itzehoe and gave a concert on June 24th in the theater itzehoe. [outdated]
Student cooperative
The cooperative school company 4X-Tours was founded at the Kaiser-Karl-Schule in 2008 and organizes group tours for schoolchildren and young people. The student company is supported by the alumni association of the school and the Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Itzehoe , among others, and took part in the German Founders Prize competition.
Alumni Association
In 1903 the association of former students of the Itzehoer Realschulen was founded by 13 former students of the then Realschule . In 1922, the name of the association was changed to the form of Association of Former Kaiser Karl Students, which is still in force today , and entered in the register of associations. The association has (as of 2009) over 1,300 members.
The aim of the association is to maintain the connections between the former students, the teachers, the KKS and the city of Itzehoe. The association supports around 5 to 8 year-old or class reunions each year. Special events such as school theater, school exchanges, class trips etc. are financially supported.
Regular meetings take place on Maundy Thursday (general assembly) and on Christmas day (Christmas meeting) of each year. Since 1922 the association has published a newsletter for the members and students of the KKS, in which letters from the members, reports about the school, contact addresses and family news are published. Since 2005, this information has also been available to members on the Internet.
Personalities
student
- Thomas Carstens (1881–1926), politician of the Schleswig-Holstein State Party, officer, lodge master and large landowner
- Kurt Gudewill (1911–1995), musicologist and university professor (Abitur 1929)
- Karl-Emil Schade (1927–2007), pastor and Bible translator
- Bazon Brock (* 1936), professor emeritus for aesthetics and cultural mediation, artist and cultural theorist
- Peter Longerich (* 1955), contemporary historian
- Jörn Thießen (* 1961), SPD politician (Abitur 1981)
- Britta Reimers (* 1971), farmer and former MEP for the FDP (Abitur)
Teacher
- Edgar Rabsch (1892–1964), music teacher and composer (teacher)
- Klaus Lange , captain of the national handball team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich (former director)