Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg

Max Reger Gymnasium
type of school	high school
School number	0006
founding	1880
address	Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 7, 92224 Amberg, Germany
place	On the mountain
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 26 '34 "  N , 11 ° 51' 3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '34 "  N , 11 ° 51' 3"  E
carrier	Free State of Bavaria
student	450 (as of: 2018/19)
Teachers	49 (as of: 2018/19)
management	Wolfgang Wolters (headmaster), Michael Meier (boarding school director)
Website	www.max-reger-gymnasium.de

Main portal in the old building

The Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg is a music gymnasium and the only state boarding school in the Upper Palatinate . The school is named after the Upper Palatinate composer Max Reger .

Pedagogical model

The focus of the school program is:

• Formation of a reflexive-critical awareness
• Conveying value-related attitudes
• Development of the musical and aesthetic systems
• Responsible use of the achievements of democracy

Training direction

The focus is on the subjects of music (core subject, including instrumental lessons ), German and art . This manifests itself in:

• Music: free instrumental lessons. Choirs, vocal ensembles, chamber music, folk music, brass groups, big band, rock band, open-air concert in summer
• German: literature, rhetoric, acting, dramaturgy, "newspaper makes school"
• Arts and crafts

An introductory class has been offered since 2014 . It corresponds to year 10 of the Gymnasium and enables graduates of Realschulen, Business Schools and the middle-school-leaving classes of the Middle Schools to prepare for transfer to the Gymnasium. This offers an alternative route to the general university entrance qualification.

The following foreign languages (FS) are taught:

• English (1st FS) from year level (class, K) 5
• Latin (2nd FS) from K 6
• French (3rd FS, starting late) from K 10 instead of Latin and as an elective
• Spanish , Italian and Czech as electives

Social projects

• Membership in the nationwide school network School without Racism - School with Courage

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There are partnerships with group or individual student exchanges and sponsorships with schools and institutions in

• , Collège Michel Chasles, Epernon
• , Gymnázium Sokolov , Gymnázium Jesenik
• , Byron Nelson High School Texas

• Working group "sponsored children": Support for children from Central and South America, Africa and South Asia.

Awards

• 2002: Youth culture promotion award of the Upper Palatinate district for the school newspaper "r.reger" in the school newspaper category
• 2007: Youth Culture Promotion Prize of the Upper Palatinate District in the category of projects for joint cultural work between disabled and non-disabled youth

history

The development of the educational establishment:

• 1880: On October 2, the Kgl. Amberg teacher training institute opened.
• In 1934, instead of the teachers' seminar, the German advanced school was set up, which led to the Abitur in 7 years.
• In 1954 the German Gymnasium emerged from it after a few intermediate names.
• In 1965 the Musisches Gymnasium was renamed to the Max-Reger-Gymnasium ( MRG ) and expanded to include the long form (in 9 years to the Abitur).
• In 1970 the boarding school gained more space by adding stories to the old building.
• 1976: The expanding new building can be inaugurated on October 22nd.
• In 2001 the renovation of the west and north wing of the boarding school building (Malteser) was completed.
• In 2005 the school celebrates 125 years of the Max-Reger-Gymnasium
• In 2008 the west wing (old building) with a new kitchen and dining room went into operation. The baroque inner courtyard of the Maltese building is being rebuilt according to old plans.
• 2012: The north wing (old building) is completely restored.
• 2016: In December, the Bay's budget committee approved. State Parliament funds for the renovation and expansion of the east and south wing (old building)
• The associated work will begin in 2018

The namesake Max Reger (1873-1916) is considered the most important composer in the Upper Palatinate . In July 1889, 16-year-old Reger was the first to pass the entrance exams for preparation at the Royal Teachers Training Institute with a grade of 1 in all subjects. Only after this security did his parents give their consent to study composition in Sondershausen . On 30./31. August 1904 Reger gave a concert in the Amberg City Theater.

Known relatives

principal

Source: Festschrift 125 years of the Max-Reger-Gymnasium

• Albert Findel (1880-1901)
• Max Eichinger (1901-1919)
• Anton Strießl (1919–1927)
• Georg Rummel (1928–1931)
• Georg Joseph Stengel (1931–1943)
• Alfred Schön (1945–1957)
• Otto Mayr (1957–1966)
• Ludwig Guber (1966–1975)
• Erich Bauer (1975–1992)
• Heinz Dutz (1992–1997)
• Dieter Rohleder (1998-2003)
• Franz Gleixner (2003-2008)
• Wolfgang Wolters (since 2008)

Teacher

• Sigrid Bloch (* 1958), music pedagogue, boarding school director, since 2015 school director and seminar director at Kepler-Gymnasium Weiden
• Walter Dolch (1894–1970), art teacher, portrait and landscape painter
• Rudolf Kleinöder MA (* 1961), Ev. Religion, German, boarding school director, since 2014 school director at the Roth high school
• Franz Prechtl (1927–2018), German, geography, history, 1970–1990 Lord Mayor of the City of Amberg
• Max Sturm (1891–1958), music teacher, composer, pianist
• Josef Trykar (1914–2008), music teacher, composer
• Clement Utz (1921–2005), music teacher, boarding school director, 1969–1985 headmaster at the Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Gymnasium Cham
• Peter Welnhofer (* 1955), German, English, headmaster at Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium (Amberg) since 2011
• Karl Winkler (1891–1961), local history researcher
• Josef Zilch (* 1928), music teacher, conductor, composer, Prof. em. at the University of Music and Theater in Munich

student

• Andrea Bauer (* 1966), Professor of Dermatology at the Dresden University Hospital
• Martin Bauer (* 1967), Ministerialrat in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, for Regional Development and Homeland
• Hans Baumann (1914–1988), elementary school teacher, poet and Nazi functionary
• Anton Beer-Walbrunn (1864–1929), composer, professor for composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich
• Norbert Bender, organ builder (* 1966): Orgelbau Sandtner
• Hans Daucher (art educator) (1924–2013), professor for art education at LMU Munich
• Claudia Gesell (* 1977), middle-distance runner
• Helmut J. Geist (* 1958), Prof. for geography
• Christoph Hammer (* 1966), fortepiano player, since August 2017 Prof. for historical keyboard instruments at the Leopold Mozart Institute of the University of Augsburg
• Heiner Hopfner (1941–2014), singer
• Hans Hummel (1929–2015), secondary school teacher, from 1996 to 2011 city home administrator in Amberg
• Max Jobst (1908–1943), composer
• Rainer Kilbert (* 1964), organ builder in Hönighausen (Lappersdorf near Regensburg)
• Ernst Kutzer (1918–2008), teacher and composer
• Johann Baptist Laßleben , senior teacher, founder of the publishing house of the same name (Kallmünz). Local researcher, 1907 founder of the magazine "Die Oberpfalz"
• Wolfgang Lehner (* 1969), Prof. for databases at the TU Dresden
• Oliver Lieleg (* 1980), Prof. for Biomechanics at the Technical University of Munich
• Joseph Loritz (1864–1908), chamber singer. Friend and concert partner of Max Reger
• Karl Peissner (1890–1952), music director and composer
• Helmut Pöser (* 1956), violin maker in Regensburg
• Florian Post (* 1981), Member of the Bundestag
• Christoph Schindler (* 1963), organ builder: Hoffmann and Schindler
• Jörg Schindler-Schwabedissen (* 1960), piano maker, he heads the organ building museum Ostheim vor der Rhön
• Helmut Schwämmlein (1944–2003), high school teacher, musicologist, founder of the “Musica Antiqua Ambergensis” Regensburg, music teacher and music researcher
• Karl Schwämmlein (1917–2009), teacher and music researcher
• Leonhard Stark (1894–1982), elementary school teacher and traveling preacher in the 1920s
• Stefanie Steiner-Grage (* 1970), research assistant at the Max-Reger-Institut Karlsruhe (new RWA)
• Max Sturm (1891–1958), music teacher and pianist
• Karl Winkler (1891–1961), local history researcher
• Stephan Zippe (* 1972), professor for Gregorian chant and German liturgy at the Munich University of Music and Theater

Winner of the promotion prizes of the city of Amberg

Youth music promotion prizes (1998-2004):

• 1998 Karin Allgeier, violin - Oliver Prechtl, piano and composition
• 2000 Michael Rupprecht, violoncello
• 2002 Anton Kölbl, piano
• 2004 Georg Birner, trumpet

Culture sponsorship awards (from 2011):

• 2011 Anna Godelmann, violin - Christof Weiss, composition and physics
• 2013 Michael Karg, double bass - Christopher Kott, violin - Igor Lichtmann, guitar
• 2015 Katrin Klose, composition and violin - Anna-Sophie Kraus, violin
• 2017 Vox Aeterna (vocal ensemble from former choristers of the MRG)

literature

• Festschrift: 125 years of Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg. Amberg 2005

Web links

• Website of the Max-Reger-Gymnasium
• Website of the Max Reger boarding school

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg on the pages of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (km.bayern.de, accessed on July 25, 2019)
2. ↑ http://max-reger-gymnasium.de/phocadownload/Leitbild/leitbild.pdf
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Youth Culture Promotion Prize of the Upper Palatinate District: The Prize Winners 2000–… ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. District Upper Palatinate.
6. ↑ http://www.onetz.de/amberg-in-der-oberpfalz/vermischtes/sanierung-des-max-reger-gymnasiums- geht-weiter-millionen-aus-muenchen-fliessen- d1716236.html
7. ↑ 125 years of the Max-Reger-Gymnasium, Festschrift, Amberg 2005, page 20
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ http://gymnasium-roth.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1070/
10. ↑ https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/de/das-klinikum/kliniken-polikliniken-institute/der/lehre-forschung/profs
11. ↑ http://www.stmflh.bayern.de/ueber_uns/organisationsplan/organisationsplan_stmf.pdf
12. ↑ http://www.oberpfalznetz.de/zeitung/4763605-125-ein-guter-geist-ist-abgitann,1,0.html
13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ http://www.imetum.tum.de/mitarbeiter/mitarbeiter-details/?no_cache=1&tx_vamitarbeiter_pi2%5Buid%5D=290
15. ↑ http://www.der-geigenbaumeister.de
16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.