One year of blog articles - the top ten
We look forward to sharing exciting topics with you in the future and delving even deeper into the life and history of Schloss Stein .
February | Anna Lang, grade 12, scholarship holder
"What did the 90s feel like at Schule Schloss Stein ?"
Sebastian Ziegler, now the overall director, remembers. He himself was a pupil at Stein for four years and is the grandson of the school's founder. In 1992, his father Olaf Ziegler, the headmaster at the time, had to undergo lengthy medical treatment and asked Sebastian for temporary support during his absence. He started at the age of 28 with no intention of staying permanently. But Dr. Peter Wabra, principal at the time, convinced him to train as a business teacher. His first contact with pupils made him realize how special school life was as a teacher here - and he stayed.
Sebastian & Olaf Ziegler
"From then to now: what has changed?"
Just to name a few things, the economic sector was introduced with him, as well as the weekly discussion rhythm with each individual pupil in a class.
Some traditions, such as the scavenger hunt, the Advent market and the Julklapp, were preserved and developed further. New events such as the Youth Forum, Literature Week and the introduction of school clothing have been added. More recently, initiatives for the big winter ball and the subject of vocational orientation have been taken up and introduced.
With the turn of the millennium and the high level of interest in the economic sector, the structure of the student body changed, even if there were already students from all over the world in the 1950s, today it has become about a quarter of the students. The school is a global village in the middle of Chiemgau.
"What changes have there been on campus?"
A lot has also happened physically. Particularly impressive: the Steiner glass floor gym - the very first of its kind. In addition, many areas have been continuously renovated to bring the school and boarding school up to date.
"Share a special memory from the 90s with us"
Mr. Ziegler remembers his first classes, which included the current Altsteiner chairman Philipp Frauendörfer. His class had a particularly close bond with the school - so much so that 20 years after graduating, they secretly returned to the schoolyard at night to celebrate their school days once again. This action was secret and only had the secret blessing of the loving principal Theresia Schilling.
The 90s at Schule Schloss Stein - a formative time that laid the foundations for many of today's developments.
Angelika Ziegler & Dr. Peter Wabra
February | Marc Wein, Altsteiner
The other day at the Italian restaurant, I carelessly left my ten-year-old daughter carelessly left my iPhone to my ten-year-old daughter. Bored, she scrolled through the photos after the lasagna the photos and finally got stuck on the folder with the title Schule Schloss Stein school. Those pictures that are particularly badly exposed, grainy and out of focus blurred because at some point they were photographed from the original with a shaky hand. photographed with a shaky hand. She looked thoughtfully and critically at each photo until she finally, over the edge of the screen, she slammed the all-important sentence on the table: "You all looked sooo nineties back then." I almost choked on my spaghetti vongole. It wasn't what she said that was so alarming what she said, but how she said it. Namely with a slightly mocking, almost derogatory undertone. What was so bad about the early 1990s? Well, we a-ha, before that Chernobyl and also Boris Becker, but apart from that the zeitgeist of broad shoulder pads was actually pretty cool and casual. Somehow. Even if some liked to wear brightly colored Versace jackets, others bleached bloomers, and everyone listened to Madonna, the period was characterized by a mood of positive period was characterized by a mood of positive change and the global triumph of capitalism. global triumph of capitalism. Material Girl and Gordon Gekko united in cheerful greed. How people enjoyed watching the sophisticated power games of the power games of the aristocratic Guldenburgs on ZDF. Rich, beautiful, successful, and yet happy without a guilty conscience, and that on public television in Germany, that only existed in the early 1990s. 1990s.
Altsteiner Marc Wein & Barbara Deutinger
What's more, not all of the students paid homage to the style of the era. Some many an individualist in the sixth form liked to walk around in knickerbockers or a three-piece flannel suit. Definitely 1920s. In the school's own disco, the club, we listened almost exclusively to a selection of records from the late 1970s. Hiiiiiiiiigh energyeeeeee! And as far as IT and computers were concerned, technical knowledge was knowledge was generally located in the year 1879. The exact time of the invention of the the invention of the light bulb, and just as advanced as the reconstruction of the simple circuit in physics lessons. Even back then, the school already had an infrastructure, from a language laboratory and tennis courts to its own indoor riding tennis courts and its own indoor riding arena, but it was never in a hurry to follow the next best trend. Even in the aforementioned club, long after the invention of the ordinary CD, the dignified turntable was still doing its casual rounds. This is simply a sublime, unagitated nonchalance, not driven actionism. We Steiner love enduring values, reside in a Schloss in blue-blooded spheres, surrounded spheres, surrounded by culture, history and tradition. What did we care about the 1990s in the 1990s? Even the kitchen back then still served the immortal toast Hawaii, aristocratic Russian eggs and the legendary canned peach. from the tin. And we don't even need to mention the highly esteemed management team in those days. don't even need to be mentioned. If you look through the school photo albums from 1948 to the present day, you will recognize a clear line, a classic elegance and a constant mission statement, characterized by a sense of tradition without being principled. That is an admirable legacy over generations. Something like this cannot be reduced to the to the fleeting zeitgeist of a single decade, even if it is the glorious 1990s. the glorious 1990s. We Steiner are ultimately just as timeless as a pair of Ray Ban aviator glasses, the Barbour wax jacket, the Golf GTI, or even canned peaches. "And next time, please take the coloring book with you to the Italian restaurant. to the Italian restaurant."
We look forward to sharing exciting topics with you in the future and delving even deeper into the life and history of Schloss Stein .
It was a decade full of lightness and community, characterized by creativity and unforgettable experiences that still resonate today. Angi Ziegler and Philip Remy, alumni and students of the 80s, look back on special moments.
The 70s: a decade of change and new beginnings. Friedrich Hörmann, Jung-Altsteiner, interviewed Angelika Ziegler, our senior partner, about this formative time.
Part II of the interview between principal Theresia Schilling and Mrs. Angelika Ziegler, the former first lady of the boarding school Schloss Stein .
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