Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium (Munich)

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Thomas Mann High School
The municipal Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium Munich
type of school Linguistic and scientific - technological high school
founding 1969
address

Drygalski Allee 2

place Munich
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 5 '53 "  N , 11 ° 30' 26"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '53 "  N , 11 ° 30' 26"  E
carrier State capital Munich
student 927 (school year 2018/19)
Teachers 87
management Bärbel Ebner
Website www.tmg.musin.de

The Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium (short: TMG ) is a Munich high school in the Forstenried district , which was named after the Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, who lived in Munich from 1894 to 1933 . The high school was created in the late 1960s to remedy the school emergency in the south of Munich. In the 2006/2007 school year, the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium was recognized as an environmental school in Europe for the second time . Representatives from 30 to 40 schools from all over Bavaria came to the gym of the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium for the award ceremony for Bavaria.

Specifics of the lesson

The Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium offers around 25 elective subjects from different areas of interest. These include various musical offers, large-format painting, photography, the administration of the school website, an environmental team and self-assertion for girls, as well as various courses as (sometimes free) tutoring , such as basic knowledge and students help students in several subjects.

Since the second half of the 2005/2006 school year, there have been "Zeit-für-Uns" ( ZfU ) hours for grades 5–10 , in which classes are given the opportunity to work on class projects and problems in one hour every three weeks discuss.

Student exchange

Since the 2006/2007 school year there has been a three-week student exchange with the United States for 11th grade students every two years . The exchange with Grand Haven in Michigan , which is part of the German-American Partnership Program, took place for the first time in 2007. In the eighth grade, students have the opportunity to take part in a student exchange with Marckolsheim ( France ) and in the tenth grade, in a student exchange with Helsinki ( Finland ). Here, the participants drive once to the exchange partner and then live there with a host family; the exchange partners spend another week with the families of the TMG students in Munich.

Buildings and school grounds

For reasons of time and money, the Thomas Mann Gymnasium is based exactly on the construction plans of the Michaeli Gymnasium , which was built at the same time and which opened at the beginning of the 1971/1972 school year. The naming ceremony to celebrate the name "Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium", which until then had the working title "Pro Gymnasium Süd", took place in April 1969. The Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium, which was built shortly afterwards in the Bogenhausen district, was also built according to identical construction plans, but was expanded to include a full third floor.

As a construction measure for the eight-year high school (shortened course - G8 ), an extended dining room with amphitheatrical steps for lunch was built in the basement and a second pavilion was built for further specialist lessons.

As of 2018, the school is suffering from space problems; there are more classes than classrooms.

3. Gym

Approx. In 1985 a building plan for a third gymnasium was drawn up. However, due to the demographic development at the time, this was not implemented. Only with the growing number of pupils was the idea taken up again and addressed in particular by the parents' council.

Container construction / pavilion

Due to the considerable new residential development in the Obersendling district, there have been 5 or 6 entrance classes since the 2017/2018 school year. In order to cover the increased space requirement, a container was built on the sports field in 2019. This has 11 classrooms and additional specialist rooms. From February 2020 this will be used for the 5th and 6th grades.

Relocation to Gmunder Strasse

Container construction will no longer be sufficient at the latest with the changeover from G8 to G9 . In order to reunite the whole school, the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium will move there as a 6-class gymnasium after the completion of the new building on Gmunder Straße (probably for the school year 2023/2024). The old building on Drygalski-Allee is to be structurally upgraded after moving out and then used as a four-class state high school.

Outstanding activities

Former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ Jürgen Wolfram: Protest against pavilion. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. December 3, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Parents 'council successful at the citizens' meeting. In: www.eb-tmg.de. March 31, 2019, accessed February 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ TMG for Haiti. In: tmg-for-haiti.jimdo.com. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015 .;
  5. ^ Project Jugend forscht on the website of the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium