As of: February 5, 2024, 5:00 p.m
By: Andreas Baar
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The VHS team looks back on 75 years: (from left) Stephanie Berger, Ines Jäschke, Melanie Hahner, Eva Holzer, Katharina Behling, Walter Fiorio and Inge Schäfer.
© Meggy Schäfer
The Garmisch-Partenkirchen Adult Education Center (VHS) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
The new program is available - including topics that are still current.
GAP - On November 5, 1949, the constituent meeting took place in the Hotel Neu-Werdenfels with the decision to found an adult education center.
The Viennese Germanist and language methodologist Professor Dr.
Ernst Häckel, who had found a second home in Werdenfels, campaigned for the foundation.
The example of 120 Bavarian communities was followed, because expellees and the war generation also needed educational and integration opportunities here.
Some topics are still relevant today
As early as 1919, Article 148, Paragraph 4 of the Weimar Constitution enshrined the right to “promote public education in order to strengthen democracy”.
This resulted in an educational awakening in Germany.
In 1922 there were already 800 adult education centers in Germany.
The forerunner in Germany was the 'Humboldt Academy' in Berlin in 1879.
In lecture cycles, scientific results were conveyed in a popular form to non-academic citizens.
During the Nazi era, adult education centers were misused for ideology and propaganda or were closed completely.
A new company was founded after 1945. Adult education enjoys constitutional status in Bavaria.
A new Bavarian Adult Education Support Act (BayEbFöG) replaced the 1974 version in 2018, last amended in 2023.
Prof. Häckel was director of the adult education center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen until 1971 and was associated with the institution until his death in 1987.
“Our adult education center (VHS) stands and falls not only with its employees, but also with the interest of our audience,” he made an appeal at the time “to everyone who is looking for education and knowledge.”
There are still places available
Registrations can be made directly on site, by telephone at
08821/95900
, fax
08821/959055
info@vhs-gap.de
.
Further information:
www.vhs-gap.de
.
That still applies.
“I find it very exciting that topics such as equal rights for women in management bodies or integration are still relevant today,” says Stephanie Berger, managing director and educational director.
She will be able to celebrate her tenth anniversary in office at the end of 2024.
According to Prof. Häckel, her predecessors were Peter Lehmberg from 1972 to 1986, Marianne Löffler on an interim basis for one year, then Manfred Zellner for almost 25 years from 1987.
Susanne Roggenhofer initially managed the educational institution provisionally, then for a year - until 2014.
30 years in the former local museum
This was housed for 30 years in the former local history museum, Rathausplatz 13. In 1979 the move to the building at Burgstrasse 21 took place.
Adult education centers are financed through participation fees, public subsidies and income from third-party funds.
In 1993, the district council unanimously approved the application of the markets and communities to continue to assume their obligation to promote adult education in accordance with Article 52 of the district regulations.
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The elected district administrator, Anton Speer (FW) since 2014, is the first chairman of the Adult Education Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen eV.
It is firmly anchored and certified in the district with branch offices in Mittenwald and Oberammergau and a network and cooperations.
“Our average annual number of participants since 2014 has been 5,200,” explains Berger.
“We provide integration courses, provide measures for job-related language training and have been an examination center for this since 2015.”
1,214 participants took an exam and 1,553 people took part in the naturalization test.
Health to culture, Romans to birds
The semester program from March to July 2024 is currently available with courses in the areas of society, culture, health, languages, IT and careers as well as young people.
“We are targeting the Romans, paying a visit to the bird sanctuary, offering Norwegian as a foreign language, mental health is just as much a focus as world literature,” says Berger, mentioning a few delicacies.
She also points out an information evening on ID security, the webinar offer at 'Wissen live', extra-occupational measures, archery for children and a creative workshop for young people.
125 course instructors and speakers ensure an interesting, colorful offering.
Meggy Schäfer