Latvian Association

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Lette-Verein Foundation under public law
Lette-Verein at Viktoria-Luise-Platz
type of school Technical school (private), vocational school (private), vocational school (private)
School number 07P03
founding 1866
address

Viktoria-Luise-Platz 6
10777 Berlin

place Berlin-Schöneberg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 29 '46 "  N , 13 ° 20' 28"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '46 "  N , 13 ° 20' 28"  E
management Petra Madyda
Website www.letteverein.berlin

The Lette-Verein is a foundation under public law for school-based vocational training and is responsible for three vocational schools , one technical school and three health care schools in Berlin . The director of the Lette-Verein Foundation has been Petra Madyda since 2009 . Since August 1, 2014, Norbert Forstmann has been head of the seven schools in the Lette Verein Berlin, his deputy is Julia von Randow .

history

Report "In the housekeeping school of the Lette Association in Berlin" 1888 in Die Gartenlaube

On February 27, 1866 , Wilhelm Adolf Lette founded the association to promote the employability of women . The association was under the protectorate of Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia , who also supported the association financially. He was a member of the Federation of German Women's Associations .

At the time the association was founded, unmarried women from the middle class had only a few opportunities to earn their living appropriately, for example as a teacher or governess . The association supported the opening of further professional fields for women. In addition, he promoted training centers and institutions as well as sales opportunities for products made by women.

In contrast to the general German women's association (ADF), which advocated similar goals, the association was initially under male management. The founding chairman, Wilhelm Adolf Lette, advocated the education of girls and women, but rejected the political emancipation of women. The employment of women should not impair their role in the family, but rather secure the life of unmarried women in a socio-economic way. In this spirit, the leading women of the association and a. Jenny Hirsch , Ulrike Henschke , Franziska Tiburtius , Katharina von Haxthausen , who emphasized the personal intellectual development in the training of young girls and women to support their natural profession as mother and housewife . Only in the first half of the 20th century did the view prevail that gainful employment can also be a job for a woman. Marie Kundt and Anna Köppen played a key role in founding and developing the first professional association for technical assistants. The work-life balance began to play a role under the leadership of Clara von Simson in the 1950s.

After Wilhelm Adolf Lette's death in 1868, his daughter Anna Schepeler-Lette took over the chairmanship of the association. Under her leadership, the association became a school authority and began teaching in 1872. Training in the areas of trade and the textile industry initially played a central role. Telegraphists, electrical assistants, trade correspondents, typesetters, bookbinders, art embroiderers, estate secretaries, dieticians, handicraft and trade teachers, fashion draftsmen and directors and others were trained.

In 1890, under the direction of Dankmar Schultz-Hencke, the Photographic Training Institute was founded. Bourgeois women, who were not yet able to access university education, were able to receive training here on a scientific basis in order to later work in research and development alongside male scientists. Numerous professions developed based on the technology of imaging processes and are still of great relevance today. These include scientific photography, X-ray photography or microphotography and were the starting point for today's metallography , medical-technical assistance and chemical-biological laboratory assistance.

In 1902 the association moved into the building erected by Alfred Messel on Viktoria-Luise-Platz in Berlin. The building, designed as a school building for a women's school, is based on the basic idea of ​​communication and social action, but also on the principle of the women's cave. Six further courtyards are grouped in a circle around a large inner courtyard, the plan being in the form of a honeycomb. Benches in the courtyards and extended corridor corners create space and atmosphere for communication in the spirit of Socratic teaching. Administration, library and dining room were on the first floor and formed the center of the action.

In 1910 a photography class for men was set up under the direction of Carola Lohde .

In 1944 the association was converted into a foundation under public law. The schools of the Lette Association have been co-educational since 1982. From the existing training courses and in connection with the new technical developments as well as the needs of the job market, new training courses such as electrical assistant, pharmaceutical-technical assistant, media informatics | Interactive animation, nutrition and supply management.

In 1984 the building complex was expanded to include a new building that accommodated laboratories. Today the Lette-Verein is a co-educational vocational training center with the areas of nutrition and care, health, design and technology that emerged from its origins.

In 2003, the Lette-Verein took part in the self-reliant school model project run by the Berlin Senate Administration for Education, Youth and Sport. In 2006 a new school program was developed.

Training

125 years of the Lette-Verein: German postage stamp from 1991

The Lette-Verein is the sponsor of three vocational schools and three health care schools - the vocational school for design, the vocational school for nutrition and supply with the technical school for nutrition and supply management, the technical vocational school and the health care schools for medical-technical assistants Laboratory and Radiology ( MTA ) and Pharmaceutical Technical Assistants ( PTA ).

The Lette-Verein is subject to state control and the training at the Lette-Verein is recognized by the state. In some training courses, the MSA as well as the BBR and eBBR and the technical college entrance qualification can be acquired. As a public law foundation , the Lette-Verein has the freedom to choose its teaching staff.

Vocational school for design

At the Vocational School for Design, photo, graphic and fashion designers are trained for three years on the basis of a secondary school leaving certificate and a passed aptitude test in theoretical and practical subjects, with the graphic and fashion design courses currently being taught in a modular manner. In addition to the acquisition of artistic, creative, technical and craft knowledge and skills, the skills for independent planning, work organization, concept development and evaluation of results are developed in initial vocational training.

Master class fashion design

Since 2016 there has been a master class in the fashion design branch. Every year, eight particularly talented graduates of the fashion design training area are given the opportunity to be coached for an additional year in the master class with a studio in the premises of the Lette Verein. This offer supports the talents to qualify for competitions and to sharpen their personal handwriting and often also to gain experience in film and television productions (including Berlin Babylon). In 2016, Sascha Johrden won the “Leipzig Opera Ball Sophisticated Fashion Award” as one of 100 participants at the Leipzig Opera Ball with a handmade evening dress. The master class is led by Jochen Pahnke, Lette graduate, co-owner of the Kratzert & Pahnke fashion label in Berlin-Schöneberg and a specialist in design, cutting and production.

The master class is sponsored by the Senate Department for Labor, Integration and Social Affairs.

Schools for nutrition and care

At the schools for nutrition and supply, assistants for nutrition and supply as well as in a two-year further education business economists are trained for nutrition and supply management. There is also the one-year Integrated Vocational Training Preparation | in this training branch IBA. The intermediate school leaving certificate (MSA) can be obtained during the assistant training. In business administration training, the technical college entrance qualification with the further option of the trainer certificate is obtained at the same time as the professional qualification.

Technical vocational school

State-certified technical assistants for computer science with a focus on interactive animation, state-certified technical assistants for metallography and material analysis, and state-certified technical assistants for chemical-biological laboratories, a combination of CTA and BTA, are trained at the technical vocational college. These training courses are two-year for high school graduates (with the exception of media IT) and three-year for young people with a secondary school leaving certificate. The latter also acquire the technical college entrance qualification with the professional qualification.

The three schools of health care

The School of Health Care for Medical-Technical Assistants ( MTA ) offers two training courses - one for radiology assistants (MTR) and one for laboratory assistants (MTL). The School of Health Care for Pharmaceutical Technical Assistants ( PTA ) offers a course of the same name.

The Lette Design Award by Schindler

Since 2015, the Lette Verein Berlin has been presenting the Lette Design Award by Schindler together with Schindler. The company's three design training areas are honored every year. As a long-term cooperation partner, Schindler Deutschland AG & Co. KG is the main sponsor of the award and, in addition to hosting the event, also sponsors the audience award, which consists of prize money and a paid contract. This includes the large-scale design of the Schindler canteen by the winner in the graphic design category.

15 selected Lette graduates from the annual graduation classes photo, graphic and fashion design in the Lette Verein are nominated by the instructing designers. A winner will be chosen from the five theses in each of the three design directions. All prizes are awarded by successful graduates from the Lette Verein Berlin. Since the first Lette Design Award by Schindler, long-term business relationships and jobs have grown out of these networks. These include companies like Foto Meyer, Michalsky , Zalando or agencies like Goldener Hirsch or HeymannBrandt.

Personalities

Teachers and learners:

literature

  • Doris Obschernitzki: The woman her work! Lette-Verein: on the history of a Berlin institution, 1866–1986. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926175-06-0 .
  • Lilly Hauff: The Lette Association in the history of the women's movement . Berlin 1928
  • Jenny Hirsch: History of the twenty-five-year effectiveness (1866 to 1891) of the Lette Association for the promotion of higher education and employability of the female sex, which is under the protectorate of Her Majesty the Empress and Queen Friedrich. Berlin 1891; d-nb.info (PDF; 88 MB)
  • Anna Schepeler-Lette . In: The Gazebo . Issue 18, 1897, pp. 308 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Max Ring: The house of the Berlin women . In: The Gazebo . Issue 25, 1874, pp. 400–402 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Lette-Verein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Lette Verein Berlin , accessed on December 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ The expression “teachers and learners” is used in the annual report of the Lette-Verein, Berlin 1900.