Französisches Gymnasium Berlin
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The Französisches Gymnasium — Collège Français Berlin is a long-existing francophone
gymnasium
in Berlin
, Germany
.
for the children of the Huguenot
families who had settled in Brandenburg-Prussia
by his invitation, being persecuted for their Protestant
beliefs in the Catholic Kingdom of France
after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
by King Louis XIV
in October 1685. Its first headmaster was the French jurist Charles Ancillon
from Metz
.
Since its foundation, the school has had an almost continuous history, occupying several buildings in Berlin. In the beginning, the faculty comprised Huguenot refugees only and the language of education was French
. The school soon was attended also by numerous German
children of school fee paying Prussian
nobles and officials, and developed into an elite school.
In the course of the Prussian reforms
, the Collège Français became a common public school in 1809. In view of the growing numbers of pupils, it moved into a larger building built on Reichstagsufer in the Dorotheenstadt quarter in 1873. The school was attended by an above-average number of Jewish pupil, who during the Nazi regime
—like Jewish teachers— were harassed and finally relegated in 1938. However, despite all nationalist
efforts, the French language remained the medium of teaching. After 1943 the school was evacuated from Berlin and the historic school building on Reichstagsufer was destroyed in 1945.
After the war, the school moved to the Wedding
district in the French
sector of what was to become West Berlin
. In 1952 the Französisches Gymnasium — Collège Français Berlin was re-established by merging the traditional Huguenot school with the Berlin collège of the French Armed Forces.
Several of its pupils (though not all graduated) became prominent in later life, among them the poet Adalbert von Chamisso, the authors Maximilian Harden
and Kurt Tucholsky
, the engineer Wernher von Braun
and the resistance fighter Adam von Trott zu Solz
, the songwriters Reinhard Mey
and Ulrich Roski
, as well as political scientist Gesine Schwan
, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
in 2009.
(on Derfflingerstraße not far from Nollendorfplatz
) in 1972, having been located in Berlin-Reinickendorf
before. It educates both German
- and French
-speaking pupils from Francophonic countries all over the world. Grades are from 5 to 12, bilingual classes and teaching starting in grade 7. Other taught languages are English
, Latin
, Ancient Greek
and Spanish
. The pupils can graduate with either of two diploma
s (though many Germans pass both): the Abitur
(German high school diploma) and the Baccalauréat
(French high school diploma).
On June 15, 2002, a gang of ex-pupils burglarized the school, vandalizing many facilities and stealing electronic equipment to sell in the street. The damage was estimated at 100,000 euro
s. Their motivation was apparently vengeance for their problems at the school, since they also destroyed personal belongings of the teachers.
Francophone
The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....
gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
History
It was founded in 1689 by Elector Frederick III of BrandenburgFrederick I of Prussia
Frederick I , of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia in personal union . The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia . From 1707 he was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
for the children of the Huguenot
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
families who had settled in Brandenburg-Prussia
Brandenburg-Prussia
Brandenburg-Prussia is the historiographic denomination for the Early Modern realm of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollerns between 1618 and 1701. Based in the Electorate of Brandenburg, the main branch of the Hohenzollern intermarried with the branch ruling the Duchy of Prussia, and secured succession...
by his invitation, being persecuted for their Protestant
Protestantism
Protestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...
beliefs in the Catholic Kingdom of France
Early Modern France
Kingdom of France is the early modern period of French history from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century...
after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Edict of Fontainebleau
The Edict of Fontainebleau was an edict issued by Louis XIV of France, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes of 1598, had granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion without persecution from the state...
by King Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
in October 1685. Its first headmaster was the French jurist Charles Ancillon
Charles Ancillon
Charles Ancillon was a French jurist and diplomat.Ancillon was born in Metz into a distinguished family of Huguenots...
from Metz
Metz
Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place...
.
Since its foundation, the school has had an almost continuous history, occupying several buildings in Berlin. In the beginning, the faculty comprised Huguenot refugees only and the language of education was French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. The school soon was attended also by numerous German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
children of school fee paying Prussian
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...
nobles and officials, and developed into an elite school.
In the course of the Prussian reforms
Prussian reforms
The Prussian reforms were a series of constitutional, administrative, social and economic reforms of the kingdom of Prussia. They are sometimes known as the Stein-Hardenberg Reforms after Karl Freiherr vom Stein and Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg, their main instigators...
, the Collège Français became a common public school in 1809. In view of the growing numbers of pupils, it moved into a larger building built on Reichstagsufer in the Dorotheenstadt quarter in 1873. The school was attended by an above-average number of Jewish pupil, who during the Nazi regime
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
—like Jewish teachers— were harassed and finally relegated in 1938. However, despite all nationalist
Nationalism
Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...
efforts, the French language remained the medium of teaching. After 1943 the school was evacuated from Berlin and the historic school building on Reichstagsufer was destroyed in 1945.
After the war, the school moved to the Wedding
Wedding (Berlin)
Wedding is a locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany and was a separate borough in the north-western inner city until it was fused with Tiergarten and Mitte in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform...
district in the French
French Fourth Republic
The French Fourth Republic was the republican government of France between 1946 and 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Third Republic, which was in place before World War II, and suffered many of the same problems...
sector of what was to become West Berlin
West Berlin
West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
. In 1952 the Französisches Gymnasium — Collège Français Berlin was re-established by merging the traditional Huguenot school with the Berlin collège of the French Armed Forces.
Several of its pupils (though not all graduated) became prominent in later life, among them the poet Adalbert von Chamisso, the authors Maximilian Harden
Maximilian Harden
Maximilian Harden was an influential German journalist and editor.- Biography :...
and Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of...
, the engineer Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that.A former member of the Nazi party,...
and the resistance fighter Adam von Trott zu Solz
Adam von Trott zu Solz
Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative opposition to the Nazi regime, and who played a central part in the 20 July Plot...
, the songwriters Reinhard Mey
Reinhard Mey
Reinhard Friedrich Michael Mey is a German singer-songwriter, known to fans as "Liedermacher". In France he is known as Frédérik Mey....
and Ulrich Roski
Ulrich Roski
Ulrich Roski was a German singer-songwriter who achieved his greatest successes in the 1970s. His songs describe the little quirks hidden in everyone's everyday life, mixing laconic humour with linguistic skill...
, as well as political scientist Gesine Schwan
Gesine Schwan
Gesine Schwan is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, she was defeated by the Christian Democrat and former president Horst Köhler...
, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
in 2009.
The school today
The school moved to its current building in Berlin-TiergartenTiergarten
Tiergarten is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin . Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin...
(on Derfflingerstraße not far from Nollendorfplatz
Nollendorfplatz
Nollendorfplatz is a square in the Schöneberg district of Berlin. Colloquially called Nolli it was named in 1864 after the village of Nakléřov , a site of the 1813 Battle of Kulm....
) in 1972, having been located in Berlin-Reinickendorf
Reinickendorf
Reinickendorf is the twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest of the city area, including the Berlin-Tegel Airport, Lake Tegel, spacious settlements of detached houses as well as housing estates like Märkisches Viertel.-Subdivision:...
before. It educates both German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
- and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
-speaking pupils from Francophonic countries all over the world. Grades are from 5 to 12, bilingual classes and teaching starting in grade 7. Other taught languages are English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. The pupils can graduate with either of two diploma
Diploma
A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...
s (though many Germans pass both): the Abitur
Abitur
Abitur is a designation used in Germany, Finland and Estonia for final exams that pupils take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling, see also for Germany Abitur after twelve years.The Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife, often referred to as...
(German high school diploma) and the Baccalauréat
Baccalauréat
The baccalauréat , often known in France colloquially as le bac, is an academic qualification which French and international students take at the end of the lycée . It was introduced by Napoleon I in 1808. It is the main diploma required to pursue university studies...
(French high school diploma).
On June 15, 2002, a gang of ex-pupils burglarized the school, vandalizing many facilities and stealing electronic equipment to sell in the street. The damage was estimated at 100,000 euro
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
s. Their motivation was apparently vengeance for their problems at the school, since they also destroyed personal belongings of the teachers.
Faculty and staff
- Charles AncillonCharles AncillonCharles Ancillon was a French jurist and diplomat.Ancillon was born in Metz into a distinguished family of Huguenots...
(1659-1715), jurist and diplomat - Paul ErmanPaul ErmanPaul Erman was a German physicist from Berlin, Brandenburg. He was the son of the historian Jean Pierre Erman , author of Histoire des refugis....
(1764–1851), physicist - Georg Adolf ErmanGeorg Adolf ErmanGeorg Adolf Erman was a German physicist.Erman was born in Berlin as the son of Paul Erman. He studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey round the world, an account of which he published in Reise um die Erde durch Nordasien und die...
(1806–1877), physicist - Ernst CurtiusErnst CurtiusYou may be looking for Ernst Robert Curtius .Ernst Curtius was a German archaeologist and historian.-Biography:...
(1814–1896), archaeologist and historian - Alfred ClebschAlfred ClebschRudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch was a German mathematician who made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He attended the University of Königsberg and was habilitated at Berlin. He subsequently taught in Berlin and Karlsruhe...
(1833–1872), mathematician - Hermann Wilhelm EbelHermann Wilhelm EbelHermann Wilhelm Ebel was a German philologist.Ebel was born in Berlin. He displayed in his early years a remarkable capacity for the study of languages, and at the same time a passionate fondness for music and poetry....
(1820–1875), philologist - Karl PloetzKarl PloetzKarl Julius Ploetz was a German author of scholarly works, most notably his Epitome of History published in the English language in 1883....
(1819-1881), author
Alumni
- Johann Heinrich Samuel FormeyJohann Heinrich Samuel FormeyJohann Heinrich Samuel Formey was a German author who wrote in French.-Life:Formey was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of immigrant Huguenots. He was educated for the ministry, and at the age of twenty became pastor of the French Protestant church at Brandenburg...
(1711-1797), essayist and philosopher - Ludwig RobertLudwig RobertLudwig Robert born 1778, died 1832. He was born into a well-off Jewish family, a brother of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense. He wrote plays, including the tragedy Die Macht der Verhältnisse which deals with the position of Jews in society....
(1778-1832), writer - Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
(1781-1838), poet and botanist - Franz von GaudyFranz von GaudyFranz Bernhard Heinrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Gaudy was a German poet and novelist.His family came from Scotland. He got his education first in the Collège Français in Berlin, then in Schulpforta. In 1818 he entered the Prussian army, but applied for his discharge in 1833 in favor of the life of a...
(1800-1840), poet and novelist - Karl Ludwig MicheletKarl Ludwig MicheletKarl Ludwig Michelet , German philosopher, was born at Berlin.He studied at the gymnasium and at the university of his native town, took his degree as doctor of philosophy in 1824, and became professor in 1829, a post which he retained till his death...
(1801-1893), philosopher - Heinrich GirardHeinrich GirardHeinrich Girard was a German mineralogist and geologist born in Berlin.He studied natural sciences in Berlin, receiving his habilitation in 1845. Afterwards he became an associate professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Marburg, and in 1854 a full professor at the University of...
(1814-1878), mineralist and geologist - Emil du Bois-ReymondEmil du Bois-ReymondEmil du Bois-Reymond was a German physician and physiologist, the discoverer of nerve action potential, and the father of experimental electrophysiology.-Life:...
(1818-1896), physician and physiologist - Carl BolleCarl BolleCarl August Bolle was a German naturalist and collector.Bolle was born at Berlin into a wealthy brewing family. He studied medicine and natural science at Berlin and Bonn...
(1821-1909), naturalist and collector - Max von BrandtMax von BrandtMaximilian August Scipio von Brandt was a German diplomat, East Asia expert and publicist.- Biography :...
(1835-1920), diplomat, East Asia expert and publicist - Gustav MützelGustav MützelGustav Mützel was a German artist, famous for his animal paintings, including the illustrations for the second edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm's Thierleben.-External links:...
(1839-1893), artist - Paul GüssfeldtPaul GüssfeldtDr Paul Güssfeldt was a German geologist, mountaineer and explorer.-Biography:Güssfeldt was born in Berlin, where he also died almost 80 years later...
(1840-1920), geologist, mountaineer and explorer - Alfred WoltmannAlfred WoltmannAlfred Woltmann was a German art historian. He was born at Charlottenburg, studied at Berlin and Munich, and was appointed professor of art history successively at the Polytechnicum in Karlsruhe and at the universities of Prague and Strasbourg...
(1841-1880), art historian - Ernst von WildenbruchErnst von WildenbruchErnst von Wildenbruch was a German poet and dramatist.-Biography:Wildenbruch was born at Beirut in Lebanon, the son of the Prussian consul-general, Ludwig von Wildenbruch...
(1845-1909), poet and dramatist - Albert Moritz WolffAlbert Moritz WolffAlbert Moritz Wolff was a German sculptor and medallion-designer....
(1854-1923), sculptor - Adolf ErmanAdolf ErmanJohann Peter Adolf Erman was a renowned Egyptologist and lexicographer.-Life:Born in Berlin, he was the son of Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of Paul Erman....
(1854-1937), Egyptologist - Richard WittingRichard WittingRichard Witting was a Prussian politician and financier. He was mayor of Poznań in 1891–1902. From 1902-1910 he was director of Nationalbank für Deutschland .- References :...
(1856-1923), politician and financier - Maximilian HardenMaximilian HardenMaximilian Harden was an influential German journalist and editor.- Biography :...
(1861-1927), journalist and editor - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964), general
- Adolf Otto Reinhold WindausAdolf Otto Reinhold WindausAdolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.Adolf Windaus was born in Berlin. His interest in...
(1876-1959), chemist, Nobel laureate - Edmund LandauEdmund LandauEdmund Georg Hermann Landau was a German Jewish mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.-Biography:...
(1877-1938), mathematician - Victor KlempererVictor KlempererVictor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life under successive German states—the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German...
(1881-1960), journalist and literary scholar - Walther von BrauchitschWalther von BrauchitschHeinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch was a German field marshal and the Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres in the early years of World War II.-Biography:...
(1881-1948), field marshal - Leonard NelsonLeonard NelsonLeonard Nelson was a German mathematician and philosopher. He was part of the Neo-Friesian School and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert, and devised the Grelling–Nelson paradox with Kurt Grelling...
(1882-1927), mathematician and philosopher - Kurt TucholskyKurt TucholskyKurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of...
(1890-1935), journalist and writer - Erich AuerbachErich AuerbachErich Auerbach was a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times.-Biography:Auerbach, who was Jewish, was born in...
(1892-1957), philologist and literary scholar - Adam von Trott zu SolzAdam von Trott zu SolzAdam von Trott zu Solz was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative opposition to the Nazi regime, and who played a central part in the 20 July Plot...
(1909-1944), lawyer, diplomat and resistance fighter - Joachim WernerJoachim Werner (archaeologist)Joachim Werner was a German archaeologist who was especially concerned with the archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Germany...
(1909-1994), archaeologist - Wernher von BraunWernher von BraunWernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that.A former member of the Nazi party,...
(1912-1977), rocket scientist - Gottfried Reinhardt (1913-1994), film producer and director
- Albert O. HirschmanAlbert O. HirschmanAlbert Otto Hirschman is an influential economist who has authored several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics. Here he emphasized the need for unbalanced growth...
(born 1915), economist - Ken AdamKen AdamSir Kenneth Adam, OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam , is a motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.-Childhood in Germany:...
(born 1921), film designer - Wolfgang GewaltWolfgang GewaltWolfgang Gewalt was a German zoologist, author and former director of the Duisburg Zoo.-Biography:After the study of zoology, botany, chemistry and anthropology, his main focus was research of the Great Bustard. He recorded his observations in the breeding grounds and his experience with hand...
(1928-2007), zoologist - Reinhard MeyReinhard MeyReinhard Friedrich Michael Mey is a German singer-songwriter, known to fans as "Liedermacher". In France he is known as Frédérik Mey....
(born 1942), singer-songwriter - Gesine SchwanGesine SchwanGesine Schwan is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The party has nominated her twice as a candidate for the federal presidential elections. On 23 May 2004, she was defeated by the Christian Democrat and former president Horst Köhler...
(born 1943), political science professor - Ulrich RoskiUlrich RoskiUlrich Roski was a German singer-songwriter who achieved his greatest successes in the 1970s. His songs describe the little quirks hidden in everyone's everyday life, mixing laconic humour with linguistic skill...
(1944-2003), singer-songwriter - Dominique HorwitzDominique HorwitzDominique Horwitz is a German film and television actor and singer.-Life:Dominique Horwitz grew up in Paris where his parents ran a delicatessen shop. In 1971 the family moved to Berlin. He attended a Franco-German grammar-school. He has a sister and a brother. About twenty years Horwitz was...
(born 1957), actor and singer - Christian BerkelChristian BerkelChristian Berkel is a German actor.Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor.From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin...
(born 1957), actor - Peter Fox (born 1971), musician
- Alexandra Maria LaraAlexandra Maria LaraAlexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-born German actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of historical and crime films...
(born 1978), actress
See also
- Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen KlosterBerlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen KlosterThe Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster is the oldest Gymnasium in Berlin and continues to this day as the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. It is a private school with a humanistic profile and known as one of the most prestigious schools in Germany...
- Canisius-Kolleg BerlinCanisius-Kolleg BerlinThe Canisius-Kolleg is a coeducational, private and Catholic Gymnasium in Berlin, Germany directed by the Jesuits. The school is named for Saint Petrus Canisius. It is known as one of Berlin's most prestigious schools.- Environment :...
- Education in GermanyEducation in GermanyThe responsibility for the German education system lies primarily with the states while the federal government plays only a minor role. Optional Kindergarten education is provided for all children between three and six years of age, after which school attendance is compulsory, in most cases for...