Children's home AS Makarenko

The AS Makarenko children's home is a children's home opened in 1953 in the Johannisthal district of Berlin in Treptow-Köpenick . It was a normal children's home and later an auxiliary school home in the system of children's homes of youth welfare in the GDR . Due to its capacity for 600 children, it was the largest children's home in the GDR .

Wall painting in the entrance area

history

course

On May 30, 1952, Friedrich Ebert junior and Herbert Fechner laid the foundation stone for the new main children's home of the Magistrate of East Berlin in Berlin's Königsheide . After 18 months of construction, the official inauguration took place on December 2, 1953. In its early years, the facility, designed as a normal children's home, mainly took in children whose parents could not look after them due to the effects of the Second World War . On November 30, 1968, the home previously known as a children's home in the Königsheide was given the name AS Makarenko . From September 1, 1981, only children in care homes with auxiliary school status were accepted. The two school buildings on the home grounds were converted from a polytechnic high school into an auxiliary school. After the reunification of Germany it became the sponsorship of the youth development organization. In 1995 the facility was converted into a social educational youth center (SPJZ) until it was closed at the end of March 1998. For many decades there was a close partnership with the Children's Town of Fót in Hungary ( Gyermekváros Fót ). The children's home was also a member of FICE . In the early years of the facility, extensive expansions with leisure facilities were carried out as part of the National Construction Works (NAW). The children's home also had its own holiday camps in Prieros and Kastaven at different times.

Directors

1953–1965: Günter Riese
1965–1972: Dr. Siegfried Graupner
1972–1975: Ruth Dreßler
1975–1981: Horst Binder
1983–1984: Irene Kompass
1987–1988: Hans-Joachim Spielmann
from 1989: Achim Rebbig
until 1998: Michael Hütte

building

School building of the children's home 1953
School building of the children's home 2019
House 1 (house for 120 children)
House 2 (house for 120 children)

Todays use

Memorial plaque at the entrance area

The site has been used as a residential park since 2016. On September 29, 2018 the information and meeting center Königsheide , IBZ Königsheide for short, opened in the entrance area of the residential park , which also sees itself as an international research and documentation center for home education.

Personalities

Ernst-Georg Schwill (1939–2020), actor
Heinz Klevenow junior (* 1940), actor and theater director
John Erpenbeck (* 1942), scientist and book author
Klaus Kordon (* 1943), writer
Detlef Soost (* 1970), dancer and choreographer
Jacqueline Boulanger, jazz musician
Knut Strittmatter

Web links

Commons : Children's home AS Makarenko - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Founding initiative of the Königsheide Foundation: Heim-Echo Volume 1 A home - and yet a home ISBN 978-3-936103-38-0 .
Founding initiative of the Königsheide Foundation: Heim-Echo Volume 2 Strange-determined life paths? ISBN 978-3-936103-44-1 .
Ursula Burkowski: Weeping in the Dark: The Fate of a Home Child in the GDR ISBN 978-3897736474 .
Paul Schikora: From the life of a home educator: Memories of life (writing workshop) ISBN 978-3867850186 .
Detlef Soost, Anne Ascher: Heimkind - Negro - Pioneer. My life . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-499-61647-5 .
Ernst-Georg Schwill : Isn't a question: Memories of an actor ISBN 978-3360019523
Klaus Kordon : Crocodile in the Neck: Novel ISBN 978-3407786326
John Erpenbeck : Analysis of a Guilt
Hedda Zinner: On the red carpet

Individual evidence

52.45561 13.49997Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 20.2 " N , 13 ° 29 ′ 59.9" E

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