What’s been going on at FSG in 2001/2002? – Second term

This web page informs you of events at FSG in the second half-term of the current school year.

For the most recent entry, click here. The link will also lead you to our quarterly publication Letter to Parents.

To return to the first half-term, please click here.

Unless stated otherwise, all links lead to web pages in German.
This excellent music page is well worth visiting
Herr Carsten Schattauer, teacher of German and Music at FSG, has made it his business to look after the webpage of the Music Department. For lovers of music at FSG, he has selected the best websites from the hundreds of music pages on offer in the WWW. Read all about Herr Schattauer’s surf tips – newly updated on January 28!
Girls’ soccer team successful at city championship
In the municipal championship on Monday, February 28, 2002, the girls’ soccer team was quite successful. Read the comprehensive report.
FSG pupils of music course win »Award of Stuttgart«
A 12th-grade music course under the direction of its teacher Herr Thomas Fischer took part in a contest organized by Ernst Klett Publishing House, Stuttgart. The pupils, who submitted a study of »The Influence of National Socialism on the History of Music in Luenen 1933-1945«, were awarded the first prize. Read more about this in our Letter to Parents of January 2002.
The pupils used municipal and other archives to find sources. Also, citizens of Luenen were called upon to lend the pupils newspaper cuttings, books and leaflets relevant to the study. The request helped to unearth some remarkable finds, for example Side by Side, the »Songbook of the Youth Movement of the Union of Clerical Workers«, published in 1930, or …
… Soldier’s Harmonica, a book of lyrics that during World War II was used by soldiers at the front. Both titles had remained in the household of a north Luenen lady for more than half a century.
Increasing demand for DELF

In 1998, there were only twelve candidates – and now there are 2432: That is the number of German students taking part in the DELF French proficiency examinations, the »Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française«, in the year 2002.

Among the 2432, 20 FSG students are preparing for the upcoming examination at the various levels. The written part of the exam is scheduled to take place at our school on Saturday, June 1, 2002 – and never mind the long bank holiday weekend! Orals will be on Saturday, June 8, 2002.

Sarah Gemicioglu is the first FSG student to be awarded a DELF diploma after passing the complete set of first-level examinations. She is now preparing for the second DELF level, and is joined in this by four other students from the rest of Germany.
New editorial staff for students’ magazine

»Beer Nation Germany« is the title of issue no 39 of Steinzeit (»stone age«), our well-nigh legendary student quarterly publication. With that issue, a new group of editors has finally taken over, now that the old staff is about to leave our school. Under the direction of new editor-in-chief Juliane Arndt (Form 8d) and deputy chief editor and layouter Dominik Wied (Form 10a), Max Ebbinghaus (12th grade), Marcel Zweigel (Form 10) and former chief editor Michael Müller (13th grade) contributed to the issue.

Other contributors were
• Timo Preuth • Carina Wachowiak
• Victoria Evers • Martha Zolenski
• Sarah Gemicioglu • Ines Reimer
• Marius Hempel • Till Dietrich
• Stefanie Henser • and Jan Irzykowski.
• Kathrin Kobialka
A copy of Steinzeit: Biernation Deutschland can be obtained from Juliane Arndt under the school address. Please send a self-addressed envelope and international answering coupons worth 5 euros.
The Thursday before the Friday

School isn’t over yet for our 13th-graders, but their lessons have come to and end: On Thursday, April 25, our oldest pupils, who are about to take their final exams in the following weeks, celebrated their last day at school by taking over the school in the usual spirit of exuberance, silliness and mischief.

From the third period onwards, the 13th-graders used the school yard for funny games and quizzes involving both fellow pupils and teachers.

The day climaxed in a boating trip on »Santa Monica«, the canal boat cruising Lippe-Seiten-Kanal. In the afternoon, students and teachers enjoyed a Turkish buffet on the premises of the »Triftenteich Small Gardens Association« on the outskirts of Lünen.
The Monday after the Friday

Numbed by the massacre at »Gutenberg-Gymnasium« in Erfurt (Thuringia) on Friday, April 26, which resulted in the death of 17 teachers, pupils and a policeman, pupils and staff at Freiherr vom Stein Grammar School came together at five minutes past eleven on the Monday thereafter to commemorate the victims in a short and quiet reunion in the school yard.

Classes used the lessons of the day to speak about the horrible event and to devise ways how they might let their compassion be known to the friends and relatives of those who were murdered in Erfurt. Please read one such letter, written by the boys and girls in Form 8d.

Until the end of the official memorial service in Erfurt on Friday, May 3, the school website remained closed, presenting to users only the – unlinked – page shown here.
What is it like to sit a final examination at FSG?

Seven photographs show you what it’s like.

On the right: Students of German Honours Course no 1 during their final exam essay on Wednesday, May 8.
Frau Volmer to advise future exchangees

FSG ninth- and tenth-graders interested in foreign exchange programmes may now turn to Frau Volmer for information. They should, however, first refer to the extensive exchange counselling available in this website.

Foreign exchange students planning to enroll at FSG should also turn to Frau Volmer for help with their timetables and other issues.
Philosophy students gave Platonic midsummer lecture

On June 21, pupils of our 11th, 12th and 13th grades gave a philosophical performance based on Plato’s Apology and Symposion. It was the second time that Philosophy teacher Herr Kramer’s »Philosophy Club« presented such an event.

Read what it was all about and look at more photographs of the occasion.
FSG graduates are given their diplomas
In a ceremony that has long become a tradition, FSG graduates of the »Class of 2002« were handed over their »Gymnasium« diplomas, entitling them to take up university studies of their choosing. Our local Heinz Hilpert Theatre House was packed when the 89 former students lined up on stage on Friday evening, June 28, to receive from the hands of Counsellor Frau Möllmann-Schmidt, Counsellor Herr Hischemöller and Headteacher Dr Czischke the coveted document.

Farewell, Class of ’02, and make the best of it!

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The Class of ’02 not only took its bow on stage – it also left behind a folio-sized yearbook written and laid out to very high standards by the students themselves. The title, Freiherr als vorher, is a verbal pun: It alludes to the school’s name and also – if pronounced sloppily, as is the habit with people in our region – means »Freer Than Before« .

Anyone interested in owning the yearbook should turn via e-mail to editors Michael Müller or Marius Hempel. The price of EUR 15,00 includes handling and shipping.

The Class of ’02 also presents itself in the WWW under the URL http://www.freiherr-als-vorher.de.vu.
What on earth has … been up to?

That is the name of a series of lectures given by former FSG students.

On Monday, July 1, our guest was Michael Steinbrecher, alumnus of 1985 and now a TV personality well known especially for anchoring popular sports shows.

The photo on the right shows Herr Steinbrecher (second from the right) celebrating the victory in our »Generations’ Cup« student-teacher soccer championship last November.
Steinzeit no 40
The most recent issue of Steinzeit (»Stone age«), our school magazine, was distributed to students on July 4. The topic of the issue was in quite season: »FSG Students On the Road«.
Practical job experience for FSG ninth-graders

O.K., so they know what it means to get up early – but they usually have no idea what it takes to get through a full working day. Since Monday, July 1, our ninth-graders are getting a taste of real working life. The experience is scheduled to last until Friday, July 12.

In the photograph, Thomas Bredeck, of Form 9a, is looking at letters to be sent to customers of the Eving branch of »Deutsche Bank 24«. Experienced staff – in this case, Ms Kirsten Firchow, herself an alumna of FSG’s Class of ’85 – is showing Thomas the ropes.

To view more photographs of students at their pro tempore workplaces, please click here.
Sampler presents FSG bands

Stone Generations is the name of the CD that school fan club »Steinis e.V.« published on July 8.

The music and the bands on the CD:

  • Girls On Stone Stage perform »We Are The Champions«, »Moonlight Shadow« and »What A Feeling«
  • »Minority«, »When I Come Around« and »Under The Bridge« are played by the band Stoned
  • Steingeist present their rendition of »Revolution«
  • The FSG School Band executes »Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day«.

The price of the CD is EUR 8. If you would like to have a CD, please contact »Steinis e.V.
24-hour city marathon: FSG students were in it

Read the report of the event.

It was written by twelfth-grade student Sarah Gemicioglu.

Eight mid-sized pictures give you an impression of what it was like.
Better late than never: The report on the Girls’ Soccer Championship 2002
The report about the girls’ soccer championship of June 24 is now online.
Our last Letter to Parents 2002 ...
... is to be published on Wednesday, July 17, but can be read here on its publication day, July 15.
Good-bye to teaching

It’s the end of the school year. To some among us, however, it’s also the end of their teaching life.

Two colleagues were given their adieus from teaching in a nice little ceremony on July 16:

  • Herr Hans Haller, FSG teacher of English and Religious Education (Cath.) since 1981
  • Herr Franz Josef Fuchs, teacher of History and Religious Education (Cath.) at FSG since 1980.
Pupils and colleagues bade the two a cordial farewell.
Good-bye to FSG

In the staff conference concluding the scholastic year 2001/2002 on Wednesday, July 17, colleagues said good-bye to

The four colleagues had been given temporary teaching contracts and are now looking forward to more permanent positions at other schools. Farewell, the four of you!
Letters to Parents

Our Letters to Parents of the present scholastic year:
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German-language version

Stand: 18.07.2002
Artur Weinhold

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