User:Dev8174077/91 German Language School "Prof.. Konstantin Gylybov "

91st German Language High School "Prof. Konstantin Galabov" is a language high school with the study of the German language. It was opened in 1960 in Sofia.

History
The high school was opened on September 15, 1960 under the name of the 91st unified secondary polytechnic school (91. ESPU) with five female teachers and 125 students. From the beginning of the 1961/1962 school year, the high school was also taught by Germans - teachers sent from the GDR. Before 1990, the school was named after Karl Liebknecht.

Until 1989, only the subjects Bulgarian, mathematics, Russian and scientific communism were taught in Bulgarian. All other classes are conducted partly or entirely in German, with the science classes being taken and taught by Germans. This is also one of the reasons why the school was attended by many children of ambassadors at that time.

After the changes in 1989, the name of the high school was changed to 91. German language high school "Professor Konstantin Galabov". Galabov is a Bulgarian scientist-philologist, writer and publicist. He attended both Sofia University and Göttingen. He became a member of the German Academy of Sciences in Munich and the Bulgarian PEN Club. He is also the founder of the Society of Bulgarian Essayists.

Types of classes
All eighth-graders in Nemska, like their peers in other language high schools, study German intensively with 20 study hours a week. After the first year, the seven classes are divided as follows:


 * 5 classes with enhanced German language learning (DSD-parallels)


 * 2 classes with teaching according to the German and Bulgarian educational programs (the parallels of the German department, the so-called Leistungsklassen)

German department
Since 1994, the 91st NEG has also had a German Department (Deutsche Abteilung, DA), in which every year, at the end of the 8th grade, the children who performed best in the German exam organized by the Department, consisting of written and oral part. Those accepted to study at the German Department study for four academic years under a program combining the German and Bulgarian educational programs at the same time. Students are expected to participate strongly in class, critical thinking and project making are encouraged. The teachers of chemistry, biology, German and mathematics are Germans, and history is divided into Bulgarian and German, and German (and world) history is also led by a German teacher. At the end of their studies, each student takes the following exams:


 * Bulgarian state matriculation exams (DZI)


 * three written German matriculation exams – two compulsory in German and mathematics and one optional between chemistry and biology


 * three oral German matriculation exams – two compulsory in German and Bulgarian and one optional between chemistry, biology, mathematics, English and history

Upon successful completion of the exams, the student receives a Bulgarian secondary education diploma and a German secondary education diploma, giving him the right to apply to German-language universities on an equal basis with other German citizens and serving as a Goethe-Zertifikat C2.

Students from the German Department often participate in and win national German competitions, including Jugend forscht (Youth Explore)[1 ] and Jugend debattiert (Youth Debate).[2 ]

DSD-parallel
The name of these classes comes from the DSD – Deutsches Sprachdiplom (C1 German Language Diploma) exam that students take in the 12th grade. Narrative subjects are taught in German by Bulgarians. After the ninth grade, students also have two additional German language classes, called Deutsch B, which are taught by the Department's German teachers. In this way, the students of the DSD-parallels develop their German speaking skills and prepare more thoroughly for the exam. They appear only at the Bulgarian state matriculation exams (DZI).

Exchange beginnings
In order to strengthen students' German knowledge and skills and to get to know German culture, 91. NEG participates in various exchange programs with the following high schools (data from 2017):