Fight in the classroom

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Movie
Original title Fight in the classroom - German students in the minority
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length about 45 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Nicola Graef / Güner Balci
script Nicola Graef / Güner Balci
production Marek Bruns
camera Alexander Rott

Kampf im Klassenzimmer is a WDR documentary about a tenth grade at the secondary school in the Essen district of Karnap . In it, the problems of living together between a minority of students of German origin and a majority of students from immigrant families are discussed. The film was produced in 2009 by Güner Yasemin Balcı and Nicola Graef .

The documentary was first broadcast on July 22, 2010 from 0:15 am to 1:00 am and July 23, 2010 from 3:40 am to 4:25 pm on the public television program Das Erste . The secondary school in Essen-Karnap had already been closed a few weeks earlier.

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In the 45-minute documentary, teachers were accompanied in their work who taught in a school in which around 70 percent of the students came from Turkish , Kurdish or Lebanese families and which was also in a socially disadvantaged area. The German students - according to the authors - got into the role of victims and were sometimes verbally abused and beaten. According to the directors, the students with a migration background “clearly had the say”, to which the German students reacted “with aggression or overadaptation”. Teachers and school management tried to resolve the conflict situations that occurred through clear rules and additional offers. According to the documentary film working group , the focus is on “2-3 German schoolchildren” and the question of how they “experience the situation”. The documentation should show "situations of understanding and not understanding" of a school class.

Reactions

The first publication in July 2010 triggered controversial reactions from viewers and media coverage, according to the WDR. While Guido Reil - at that time still councilor of the SPD in Essen-Karnap - or the school and social department head Peter Renzel saw the documentation as a representation of reality, Helmuth Schweitzer, educational director of the office for intercultural work, criticized the film as "voyeuristic" and claimed that nothing else could have been expected from the director Güner Balcı: “You know the author and you could have known what would come of it”. In her program recommendation for the first broadcast, the FAZ editor Regina Mönch wrote that both authors understood how "in intensive conversations and discussions, conducted over a long period of time, to show the difficult situation in which the staff and the students find themselves". The documentary was "the story of a manifesting intolerance, against which all attempts by the educators to break open, rebounded." After the broadcast, however, the Ruhr parents' association criticized the documentation. The report hinders “the success of integration” and accelerates “undesirable developments”. The former school director called the impression given that the school was the scene of violent clashes between students from the Muslim majority and an oppressed German minority, a caricature. In the course of the debate about the integration problems in Germany, excerpts of the documentation were shown in the talk shows Menschen bei Maischberger and Hart, but fairly .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrich Führmann: When the classroom becomes a battlefield. WAZ media group (derWesten), July 23, 2010, accessed on November 15, 2012 .
  2. ^ Combat in the classroom , Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm , accessed on November 16, 2012
  3. ↑ Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): "Battle in the classroom". Archived from the original on April 24, 2013 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Frank Stenglein: Integration at the Karnap secondary school was a foreign concept. WAZ media group (derWesten), July 22, 2010, accessed on November 18, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Regina Mönch: Kulturkampf in the classroom: What do you think of the Germans? , faz.net of July 21, 2010
  6. ↑ Parents criticize Karnap documentary from ARD , WAZ from August 16, 2010
  7. ↑ Ulrich Führmann: "Karnap was never Essen's horror school" , WAZ of July 23, 2010
  8. ↑ Bastian Brinkmann: A smart head can wear a headscarf. Süddeutsche Zeitung (Süddeutsche.de), October 14, 2010, accessed on November 16, 2012 .
  9. ^ Patrick Bahners: The late substitution of Nicola Graef. faz.net , October 14, 2010, accessed November 20, 2012 .