Sophie Charlotte High School

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Sophie-Charlotte-Gymnasium
Fürstin-Bismarck-Schule - Sophie-Charlotte-Schule, Sybelstr. 2-4 (Berlin-Charlottenburg) .jpg
type of school high school
School number 04Y03
founding 1857
address

Sybelstrasse 2-4

place Berlin-Charlottenburg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '8 "  N , 13 ° 18' 45"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '8 "  N , 13 ° 18' 45"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 891 (2016/2017)
Teachers 71 + 16 trainee lawyers (2016/2017)
management Christoph Schmerling
Website http://www.scgberlin.de

The Sophie-Charlotte-Gymnasium is a bilingual high school in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . It is one of the oldest grammar schools in Berlin. The name bearer is the Prussian Queen Sophie Charlotte of Hanover .

history

The then Fürstin-Bismarck-Lyceum was founded in 1857 as a high school for girls. The current building on Sybelstrasse, with a representative facade of almost 90 meters, was planned for 1200 schoolgirls and was designed by the architect Walther Spickendorff and built in 1913-16. For the time, the school was modernly equipped with scientific rooms (with laboratory spaces), a gym and a paneled auditorium, which also had an organ. Older schoolgirls were allowed to use the roof garden as a break location. The Jewish director Dr. Robert Burg, who taught science subjects, signed the first high school diploma in 1919. Overall, he introduced a liberal style of upbringing and successfully implemented the reform plans of the Prussian Ministry of Culture. Some teachers saw themselves as "staunch reformers". In Ferch am Schwielowsee , the school acquired a popular school camp called "RoBuLa Hut" (Robert-Burg-Landschulheim). In 1939 all Jewish schoolgirls were expelled and Burg emigrated to the USA in 1939. From 1942 onwards, because of the ongoing bombardment by the expanded Kinderlandverschickung , the pupils were distributed and the building was converted into a hospital. After the end of the war, the school was renamed and was called the Ricarda Huch School for twelve years . In 1957 the Ricarda-Huch-Schule, the Lietzensee-Schule and the municipal Sophie-Charlotten-Schule in Charlottenburg were transferred to the grammar school. Christoph Schmerling has been the headmaster of the grammar school since 2003.

Course offer

The Oberschule is a four-course grammar school from grade 7. As a rule, four bilingual classes are set up (from grade 7), of which two classes are purely bilingual and two classes are mixed (bilingual / regular train). In the 2011/2012 school year, six 7th grades were enrolled for the first time in order to do justice to the size of the year. Students in the bilingual train are taught in English in the subjects geography (from grade 8), biology (grade 9) and political science (grade 11). Since it was founded, the school has focused on language subjects. In grade 7, French is added as a second foreign language. From year 9 onwards there is also the option of Latin and Spanish.

Commemoration

The grammar school is best known for its events in honor of former students of Jewish origin. The best known are the author Inge Deutschkron and the composer Ursula Mamlok . For the 150th anniversary, the film of a schoolboy (Lost Youth) was presented in the presence of famous personalities from politics and culture . Since August 2011, there have been multiple political and social panel discussions and lecture series, organized and carried out by the school representative and the student council.

Well-known graduates

School partnerships

Web links

Individual evidence

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