The masterminds from Weilheimer Gymnasium

Created: 06/23/2022, 16:00

Five of the nine best high school graduates from the Weilheim high school: (from left) Fabian Hruschka, Marie Kuhar, Franziska Schuch, Antonia Siebel and Lukas Finsterwalder.

© Photo: Gallmetzer

This year's Abitur class at the Weilheim Gymnasium set a new record: Nine students managed to complete their matriculation examination with a grade of 1.0.

Five of the best of the year gave the local newspaper an insight into their preparations and plans for the future.

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– Fabian Hruschka is an ambitious guy who approached the Abitur project with a plan.

“The 1.0 was the goal.

The fact that it actually works was a gradual process,” explains the 18-year-old.

Already at the beginning of the upper school he had created an Excel spreadsheet in which he noted all the grades.

The final grades were calculated on a daily basis.

In this way, Pollinger had a clear view of the results he still needed to achieve his dream.

An internship inspired him for media

Nevertheless, always delivering top performance was a challenge for him - especially during the lockdowns.

"Keeping up the motivation wasn't always easy," admits Hruschka.

But he succeeded.

"In the end, I would have only needed twelve points in all subjects" - so he started the final of his school career with a good feeling.

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Despite this, he had prepared himself intensively for the final exams, but he also tried not to lose sight of other aspects of life.

"I like doing sports," says the passionate soccer player, who plays in a club in Polling.

He is also interested in political topics: "I always try to keep myself up to date." He would like to use this quality in his planned data journalism study.

The application for the Technical University of Dortmund is already in progress, because this course is only offered there in Germany.

"An internship at BR got me excited about media, I'm good at math and I'm interested in computers," he says.

Hruschka believes he has found the perfect combination for himself.

She studies jazz trombone

Marie Kuhar also knows exactly how things should continue in the future.

"I'm going to study jazz trombone," says the 18-year-old with a gleam in her eyes.

“Now I can turn my hobby into my job.” She is looking forward to being able to play music for hours and that will then be part of her studies.

The Weilheimerin already has a commitment in her pocket for Vienna, but she would prefer it if it worked out in Munich.

She'll find out in a few days.

It came as a surprise that she got the best grade.

"I toyed with a 1.0, but it wasn't my main focus," she admits.

She sees an advantage in her personality: "I get excited about a lot of things very quickly." She always enjoys learning new things.

She didn't have a favorite subject all the time, but had a wide range of interests.

"It always depends on the teachers and the topics," says Kuhar.

"The upper school was called Big Band for me"

But her great passion was and is music.

"For me, upper school was called big band," she says and is already mourning the loss of this experience.

She regrets that there was no final concert due to the pandemic.

However, she is certain that she will continue to keep in touch with her bandmates and does not rule out further music projects with them.

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Long active in the Catholic Church

Franziska Schuch is also musical and prefers to play the piano in her free time.

She has always been good at school and was clear about getting a good high school diploma.

"But I wasn't aware until the grades were announced that it would actually be 1.0." So the result came as a surprise to the 17-year-old.

She is glad that the effort put in was worth it.

“In the weeks before, especially during the Easter holidays, I learned a lot for the written Abitur subjects,” she reveals.

The Weilheim native has been active in the Catholic Church for a long time and now wants to get even more involved with people.

In autumn she will therefore probably start a voluntary social year and then study: "I don't know what and where exactly."

First various internships, then medical studies

Antonia Siebel, on the other hand, already knows exactly where to go professionally.

She has long-term plans to study medicine.

For orientation, however, she would like to get a taste of different areas first: "I will complete various internships in the coming year to find out which areas appeal to me the most."

The woman from Unterhausen did a lot to achieve the 1.0.

"Nevertheless, free time and variety were not neglected," she reports.

She also paid attention to the balance to studying, met with friends and played in the school orchestra and the big band of the high school, among other things.

Sport in the fresh air also gave the 18-year-old new energy in the stress of exams.

Preferably in the mountains

Lukas Finsterwalder also regularly recharges his batteries in nature.

Whenever possible, Forster is outside and does sports: "I prefer to go hiking and climbing in the mountains." When preparing for the Abitur exams, he relied on his instincts.

"I hadn't drawn up a concrete learning plan," explains the 18-year-old.

Since the carnival holidays he has started to study continuously – about the same amount for each subject.

He had good grades all his school life.

That didn't change in high school either.

But for a long time it was not clear to him that he would really achieve a 1.0.

"I knew based on the points at the end of the twelfth grade that it would be good, but not how good it would be." With this excellent result, Finsterwalder now wants to start studying mathematics.

Also a great vintage on a human level

The A-level students agree that they belong to a great school-leaving year – both personally and in terms of their performance.

The young people are particularly impressed that the corona problem was mastered so well by the majority of their classmates.

"That requires a lot of talent and self-management," says Marie Kuhar and Fabian Hruschka adds: "Respect for everyone else with a 1.0."