Thilo Rothacker / The Mirror
We were ten years old and had to decide how our life would go on. We were sitting in the primary school auditorium, my girlfriend and I, it was the summer of 2000, we were thinking about which school we should go to.
There was the mixed grammar school, a boring building next to the old ice rink in Bad Tölz. And then the castle in Lenggries. It is light yellow, has a tower and a church clock and stands on a hill by a forest, it was once the hunting lodge of the Luxembourg Grand Dukes. It has hall stairs that creak when you sit on them during break, it has old statues and ballrooms and haunted stories to tell.
I wanted to go to the castle. I accepted that the Catholic girls' school St. Ursula-Gymnasium Schloss Hohenburg, founded by religious sisters, was located there. The word girls' school sounded dusty to me, but that did. On the other hand, it also sounded like calm from disturbers.
Whether girls need a "sanctuary" is currently being discussed again, so I remembered my girls' school. The President of the Conference of Ministers of Education recently promoted separate classes in physics and mathematics. Otherwise, so their argument, girls would not choose the path to such subjects, neither in their studies nor in their work.
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