Community school on the Rütli campus

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Community school on the Rütli campus
Ruetli2 School Neukoelln.JPG
type of school Community school
founding 1909, merger in 2009
address

Rütlistraße 41
12045 Berlin

country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 29 '15 "  N , 13 ° 26' 1"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '15 "  N , 13 ° 26' 1"  E
carrier District Office Neukölln of Berlin
student 632 (status: school year 2010/2011)
management Cordula Heckmann
Website campusruetli.de

The community school on the Rütli campus (formerly: Rütli-Oberschule , Heinrich-Heine-Oberschule and Franz-Schubert-Grundschule ) has been a community school in the Berlin district of Neukölln since 2009 . In the 2005/2006 school year, the Rütli School had only 267 students and was known nationwide when teachers sent a " fire letter " to the Berlin Senator for Education in March 2006 . This led to an internal political debate about the school system in Germany , violence in schools and the integration of children with a migration background .

history

The school building was built as the 32nd / 33rd Community school in Rixdorf (Neukölln) inaugurated in October 1909. During the First World War it served as a barracks, from January 1920 again as a teaching building. In 1921 1,400 students attended the school. From Easter 1923 two schools in the building, the 31st and the 32nd, were officially permitted to function as secular community schools (without religious instruction and with mixed classes). The third school, the 41st / 42nd, was newly founded and only run as a secular school / collective school for boys and girls. The educational views of their rectors Wilhelm Wittbrodt and Adolf Jensen as well as the educational policy commitment of many teachers and parents were decisive for the democratic-reformist approach of the schools ; Mention should be made of Käthe Draeger , who taught there after 1926. Working groups, trips and other reform-pedagogical teaching forms and methods shaped many school years.

Immediately after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , the school was closed in the form mentioned. From 1943 a military hospital was set up in the building .

Plaque

As a school, the building was reopened in June 1945. In 1960 the school - after the name of the street in which it is located and which is named after the Swiss Rütli - was officially renamed the Rütli Oberschule . From 1966 it was possible to complete a voluntary 10th grade in secondary school , which in 1979 made it compulsory for the extended secondary school leaving certificate and, with higher performance requirements and a good grade profile, also the possibility of a secondary school leaving certificate .

Student demographics at the time of the crisis

In the 2005/2006 school year there were 13 classes with 142 boys and 126 girls. Of the students, around 35% were of Arab , 25% of Turkish and 17% of German descent. Around 80% of the students were Muslim . The different origins of the students represented a high educational challenge. As early as 2004, the school's headmistress at the time, Brigitte Pick, reported in the press that the multicultural integration attempts threatened to fail (“I see great despair among the teachers”). She herself had also been threatened (threatening letter, "Islam wins"). According to Brigitte Pick, “the real problem lies neither in the Arab, Turkish or Serbian, but in the social origin of the students and their lack of prospects. In the last school year, for example, no pupil received a training position. On the other hand, teacher training fails that does not prepare future teachers for social reality. "

In March 2006, the school hit the headlines when it became public that teachers had allegedly called for the school to be closed. This was later denied as untrue, rather the teachers had demanded from the Senate a solution to the problem of violence at the school and the transfer of the school to a different type of school.

Rütli school

The then Berlin Senator for Education, Klaus Böger , said that no school location in Berlin should be given up. Police protection is available to the teachers in order to be able to take up appropriate lessons. In an interview with the broadcaster RBB , those responsible stated that in the future three social workers would help to get the problems under control. In April 2006, the new interim rector Helmut Hochschild and the head girl Katrin El-Mahmout asked the media and politicians not to include the school in the upcoming election campaign in Berlin or to call the facility a “hate school”. In particular, there were allegations that journalists paid students to portray scenes of violence. Aleksander Dzembritzki was entrusted with the management of the Rütli School from October 2006 to summer 2009 . In February 2007 Brigitte Pick published a book in which she summarized her experiences as the director of the Rütli School. The title was supplemented by a media-effective series in the tabloid Bild .

New school organization approaches

From the school year 2009/2010, Cordula Heckmann will head the newly founded community school on the Rütli campus, in accordance with a model test by the Senate, which provides for at least one community school per district, to which, in addition to the classes from grades 1, 2, 7 and 8, also grades 3 to 6 belong to the former Franz-Schubert-Schule (elementary school) and grades 9 and 10 of the former Rütli-Schule (secondary school) and Heinrich-Heine-Schule (secondary school). A "secondary level II" is planned. The community school is the center of the Rütli campus and the key school of the 'One square kilometer education' project.

In the last school year, the first construction phase began on the “Campus Rütli”, and the community school received a cafeteria, state-of-the-art science rooms, new class teachers' rooms and secretarial rooms. In addition to subject rooms for chemistry , physics , biology , music and the visual arts , the school has a school kitchen, a wood and metal workshop, four PC rooms and two gyms . The school museum was created in collaboration with the artist Günter Evertz.

There were 17 classes in the 2009/2010 school year. 90% of the students were of non-German origin. In the Berlin community schools, the composition of the student body should remain the same from school enrollment to graduation. The aim is for all pupils to learn together with and from one another, regardless of the recommendation of the primary school and their social, cultural or ethnic origin and gender, regardless of religious affiliation and regardless of disability. The focus of the lesson design lies in the internally differentiated, student-centered handling of heterogeneous classes and individual support. The motto is: “A school for everyone! No student is left behind ”(model experiment).

Community schools are all-day schools. This means that the school day lasts from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. four days a week. The pupils have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of compulsory electives, which mainly take place in the afternoon. This is followed by an extensive tutoring program to prepare the tenth graders for the secondary school leaving certificate in German, English and mathematics. Additional preparatory courses may take place as holiday camps during the school holidays. There is a lunch break with food options in both the cafeteria and the cafeteria. This is followed by a “lunch band” with a wide range of leisure and learning opportunities. Courses for climbing , chess , drums , table tennis , computers , theater , Turkish , Arabic and instrumental lessons are offered on the Rütli campus .

Current educational projects

Project "Elective WG Boxing"

On September 1, 2006, the elective boxing started . The offer is an attempt to convey rules and values ​​to young people through sport. The initiator and trainer of this project, Michael Bensch, documents the progress of this project in the internet blog.

Entrance Rütli-Straße left ...
"Rütli Wear" project

The "Rütli Wear" project was started in 2006/2007. Students in grades eight to ten can use the screen printing process to produce T-shirts with their own graphics and market them online. In doing so, they acquire graphic, technical and computer skills both in the classroom and in the workshop of a printing company. There are also plans to set up the “T-Shirt-Produktion” student company, the profits of which will flow into a school fund, so that the commercial aspects of the project can also be transferred from the three student initiators to the student hands.

... and right
Workshop of the show group "Young Americans"

From May 22nd to 24th, 2006, a three-day workshop took place with the American show group The Young Americans, founded in 1962. At the end of the workshop, the students performed a musical in front of a good 900 spectators .

"Back to the Future" project

“School dropouts” should be brought back into the life process with a future by means of a variety of measures.

Sponsorship

In 2007 a sponsorship agreement was signed between the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Rütli School.

Cooperation agreement

The school is supported by a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG to support the early career guidance of the pupils .

Prominent former students

  • Horst Bosetzky , student from 1946 to 1951, well-known Berlin crime writer ( pseudonym -ky )
  • Arno Funke , department store blackmailer, known under the pseudonym Dagobert
  • Hanno Günther , pupil 1928–1934, communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Hildegard Jadamowitz , communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Walter Ruge (1933 with brother Wolfgang in the Soviet Union, there from 1939/1940 to 1954 in labor camps)
  • Wolfgang Ruge (1933 in the Soviet Union, labor camp until 1956, later SED historian)
  • Werner Steinbrink , communist resistance fighter against National Socialism, member of the Herbert Baum group
  • Stefanie Stappenbeck , actress

Prominent former teachers

  • Herbert Busse , reform pedagogue and education politician, communist; Teacher, vice-principal (31st community school) and city councilor (1945) in Berlin-Neukölln, later various offices in the Soviet Zone / GDR
  • Käthe Draeger , communist politician, educator and psychoanalyst. Teacher (hired in 1926)
  • Fritz Hoffmann , reform pedagogue, “singing” teacher and school principal at the then “31. Community School ”and from 1948/49 an important unified school in Berlin-Neukölln ( Britz ), today's Fritz Karsen Community School 08K06
  • Adolf Jensen , social democratic reform pedagogue a. a. in Hamburg and Berlin-Neukölln, professor in Braunschweig
  • Fritz Lange , teacher (1919–1924 at the 32nd community school), communist journalist, education politician, city councilor, minister of education in the GDR
  • Bruno Lindtner , educational reformer, a Social Democrat and an active member of the Red fighters in Berlin-Neukölln, penitentiary , penal battalion , head of an anti-fascist school , the SED - party school Grunau , the community college Berlin-Koepenick
  • Friedrich Weigelt , social democratic reform pedagogue, trade unionist, publicist and journalist, school councilor
  • Wilhelm Wittbrodt , social democratic reform pedagogue, politician and Esperantist . Teacher, then school director (1925–1933) and after 1945 Hauptschulrat

literature

Web links

Commons : 1. Community School  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint. In: campusruetli.de. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Julia Schaaf: Always the full droning Heckmann . In: www.faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 8, 2011, accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wibke Bergemann: Islam in the class test - talking or regulating? In: www.taz.de. the daily newspaper , March 8, 2004, accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rütli-Rector condemns the “school system from the empire”. In: www.spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , April 3, 2006, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Peter Nowak: Terror school or media terror? Telepolis , April 8, 2006, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Plutonia Plarre: "This is media terror". In: www.taz.de. the daily newspaper , April 5, 2006, accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Jan-Martin Wiarda: Two worlds in Neukölln. Die Zeit , February 1, 2008, accessed on April 28, 2020 (No. 6/2008).
  8. ↑ Brigitte Pick: headshots. If you don't understand PISA, you have to calculate RÜTLI. Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-89965-222-3 .
  9. ↑ Brigitte Pick: Horror Hauptschule. Series. In: Bild , 7. – 10. March 2007. Part 1. In: www.bild.t-online.de. Archived from the original on March 8, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 . Part 2. In: www.bild.t-online.de. Archived from the original on March 9, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 . Part 3. In: www.bild.t-online.de. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 . Part 4. In: www.bild.t-online.de. Archived from the original on March 12, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ title. In: www.campusruetli.de. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ title. In: www.ein-quadratkilometer-bildung.eu. Retrieved April 28, 2020 . - Program sponsored by the Freudenberg Foundation, the Karl Konrad and Ria Groeben Foundation and Campus Bildung im Quadrat gGmbH
  12. ↑ Elective subject "Boxing". In: ruetli-projekt.blog.de. Archived from the original on November 17, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  13. ^ Project Rütli. In: www.ruetli.biz. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  14. ^ Workshop of the show group Young Americans. In: www.youngamericans.org. Archived from the original on November 27, 2006 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  15. ^ Workshop of the show group Young Americans at the Rütli-Oberschule. Gesellschaft für Energie und Wirtschaft Berlin, archived from the original on October 8, 2006 ; accessed on April 28, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Rütli Group. (Pdf) In: www.gdw-berlin.de. SS 25 , accessed on April 28, 2020 (p. 25).