Lycée Français de Vienne

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Lycée français de Vienne
Main entrance
type of school French-speaking pre-school ,
elementary school and high school
School number 909036
founding 1946
address

Liechtensteinstrasse 37A

place Vienna , AustriaAustriaAustria 
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 13 '15 "  N , 16 ° 21' 33"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '15 "  N , 16 ° 21' 33"  E
carrier France
student 1,821
Website www.lyceefrancais.at

The Lycée français de Vienne (LFV) is a French school abroad in Vienna and was founded in 1946 by Général Béthouart . It is a private school, but it has public rights. Today it enjoys an excellent reputation and shares a boarding school with the well-known Theresianum . The Lyceum is one of 494 schools affiliated with the Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger (AEFE) school network.

history

Ecole Maternelle in Grinzing

The school opened on 11 May 1946, 77 students in temporary premises and moved subsequently in that of Karl Kupský (1906-1984) with planned, solemnly released on May 8, 1954 school buildings within the park of the Clam-Gallas Palace between Liechtensteinstrasse and Währinger Strasse in the 9th district of Vienna . It has been a mixed school for Austrian and French students since the beginning. The premises of the “Studio Molière”, the former “Aviator Cinema”, also belong to the school.

On March 15, 1947, a first contract between the Austrian and the French Republic was concluded to promote cooperation in the fields of education, training and the university as well as in the literary, scientific and artistic fields.

In 1950 the school had 500 students and in 1953 1,350, with 20% of French origins even then. Since the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien closed numerous Jewish institutions, including some schools, after the Second World War , many Jewish students attended the Lyceum. So completed there among other Ben Segenreich , Ariel Muzicant and Ronald Barazon their schooling.

Another contract dated February 22, 1952 defined the relationship between Matura and Baccalauréat as well as the respective importance of Austrian and French teaching. This contract was updated in 1960, 1962, 1968 and most recently on January 27, 1983.

In the 2005/06 school year, 1,821 pupils attended the Lycée , 362 of them in kindergarten, 604 in elementary school and 855 in lower and upper levels of grammar school. Today there are kindergarten and some elementary school classes in the premises in Grinzing, the remaining classes are housed in the buildings on Liechtensteinstrasse.

Structure and direction

Ecole Elementaire

According to the French school system, the Lycée français de Vienne includes :

  • the Ecole Maternelle (kindergarten age) located in Grinzing
  • the Ecole Elementaire (elementary school) with its main location in the 9th district
  • the Collège (four-year middle school)
  • the Lycée (three-year high school), also in the main building in the 9th district

As in France, the school is run as an all-day school with French as the language of instruction. For Austrians, additional lessons in German are compulsory from kindergarten to Matura; non-Austrians are offered German as the first living foreign language from kindergarten. There are also special classes for English-speaking students, which then allow them to attend an English-speaking university. At lunchtime there is local food, and the school country weeks are mostly spent in France. With the degree you receive both a French Baccalauréat and an Austrian Matura , if the additional lessons were taken in German. Other languages ​​offered are Spanish, Arabic and Latin. Almost since the beginning, 70% of the students have come from Austria, 20% from France and the remaining 10% from over 50 countries around the world, but in the recent past the proportion of non-Austrians has risen to around 40%.

Process and meaning

Due to the large number of visitors, the safest way to secure a place at the school is to go to kindergarten there, which is also recommended for non-French-speaking children and is possible from the age of three. In any case, you must enroll before your tenth birthday. For non-French-speaking children between the ages of six and ten (1st grade elementary school to 1st grade AHS) there is an entry-level class with a maximum of twenty people, in which the prerequisites for integration into normal school operations are created. The pupils are in their regular class and are brought out of the class for six teaching units per week according to a set schedule. During the time, the additional German-language lessons also ensure that if there are any problems, integration into an Austrian school does not cause any problems.

Classes start at 8:25 a.m. and last until 12:30 p.m. in the morning. The afternoon classes start at 1:30 p.m. and can last until 6:25 p.m. One lesson is approximately 55 minutes. There is a 10-minute break in the morning and afternoon.

In an evaluation by the magazine Profit , the school came fourth behind BG Parhamerplatz , BG Rahlgasse and the Theresianum .

Well-known graduates

Web links

Commons : Lycée Français de Vienne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorable to France and Vienna. The Viennese French School opens . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 9, 1954, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).