Status: 18.11.2023, 16:00 PM
By: Michaela Sperer
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Due to lack of space, the grammar school is to be extended at the current location on Weindorfer Straße. © Dominik Bartl
Whether it's old school newspapers, unpleasant references, love letters secretly tucked under the table that you've kept, or maybe even one or two cheat sheets that you can still find: In 2024, the Staffelsee-Gymnasium Murnau will celebrate its 100th anniversary - and this already requires the help of all Murnau residents, or rather all those who once went to this school. We are looking for old memorabilia and memories of all kinds.
Murnau - The history of the Staffelsee-Gymnasium (SGM) began in January 1924, when a Protestant school association was founded in Murnau on a private initiative. As early as 5 May 1924, the "school-organised private lessons", as the school inspectorate sceptically noted at the time, could be started at the new "Protestant Private Higher School for Girls" – with nine pupils. This was the beginning of today's Staffelsee-Gymnasium Murnau – which has undergone several moves and rapid development over the past 100 years. Soon boys joined them, and the number of pupils rose steadily. The locations of the school changed several times until 1966, when the ground-breaking ceremony was held for a large building on Sollerstraße, today's Christoph Probst Middle School. In 2001/2002, the legendary building exchange of the grammar school and the former secondary school on Weindorfer Straße was completed.
Until 2001, the Staffelsee-Gymnasium was housed in the building on Sollerstraße, today's Christoph-Probst-Mittelschule.photo: mm/Archiv © Münchner Merkur/Archive
The 100th anniversary of the SGM is to be celebrated extensively in the week from 18 to 24 July 2024. Plans include a play rehearsed by students, a colorful dance and fashion show that revives the past 100 years, as well as exciting, thoughtful or funny stories from former students and teachers. "In our anniversary year, however, we would also like to take a close look at our school history," explains headmaster Tobias Schürmer. In addition, there will be an exhibition entitled "100 Years of SGM in the Mirror of World and Contemporary History", which is conceived by the students of the current P-Seminar under the direction of Konrad Kustner. And for this, the high school students already need support or memories or exhibits. "Hence the request to all former students and teachers to take a look into their own past and to search through their own drawers and chests for memorabilia from their school days in Murnau," says Kustner. Perhaps, he hopes, it will be possible to find old school notebooks or books, old works with good or not so good grades, photos or even videos, school or high school newspapers, references, annual reports, love letters or cheat sheets, which can be made available in the original or as a copy for the planned exhibition or for the accompanying homepage.
"It doesn't matter whether these objects make us smile, amaze us or make us shake our heads," adds Schürmer. "All memorabilia helps with the conception of the exhibition and can of course be presented in such a way that no conclusions can be drawn about one's own person."
To ensure that there is no great effort for those who want to participate, the copies can be sent to the school in different ways. Either write an e-mail to sgm100@sgmu.de or call 0 88 41/6 12 80. But if you prefer that, you can also come by directly and deliver the "treasures" you have found yourself on Mondays, 11 and 18 December, between 17 and 19 p.m. and tell a little bit about it over punch and cookies. If you don't want to give up the original, it will be scanned (this is also possible every Monday between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.).
"We would also be delighted to welcome any contemporary witness who has a typical or unusual story to tell from his or her school days," says Schürmer. "So, with all your material and spiritual memories, help to revive the time and find forgotten puzzle pieces from your school days!" Michaela Sperer