Residential
Auersperg-International Summer Camp
Penningberg · Language · 8–15 yrs
Typically open in July — 2027 dates coming soon
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Ages14–18 yrs
FocusGerman
LevelAll levels
Language lessonsGerman
Humboldt-Institut e.V. runs this residential language camp in Vienna, Austria. The camp welcomes children aged 14–18, with sports and water activities on the programme. Typically open July — new dates coming soon. Sessions last 2–4 weeks. Activities run in German.
Residential German camp in Vienna, Austria
Our German lessons take place in our Youth Guest House Brigittenau, since our students live in the same building and they do not have to leave the premises and have only short distances to get to class. Our students live in the Guest House Wien-Brigittenau, Vienna’s most modern youth hostel. It is ideally located between Danube Island and downtown Vienna, which gives our students a blend of the atmosphere of the big city with the advantages of a quiet and safe residential area. The classrooms on the Bertha von Suttner school ship are within walking distance. The city center with its many historic and cultural sights can easily be reached during free time. The nearby Danube Island is an oasis of tranquility and is ideal for relaxation, sports and manifold leisure activities. The bright and modern twin rooms all have en-suite bathrooms, as well as air conditioning. We carefully choose the students who will share a room with each other. We take care to match roommates who have a comparable German language level and are of similar age, yet speak different native languages. This way we encourage them to speak and practice German with each other outside of the classroom. Boys and girls are housed separately. Our students receive three meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner). Breakfast and dinner will be served in the dining room of the youth hostel, while lunch will be served on board the ship.Laundry service is offered to all students free of charge once a week for their personal laundry. Bed linen and towels will be provided and changed regularly. The duration of accommodation can be either 2 weeks or 4 weeks.
What's Included
All German lessons (30 lessons per week, Monday to Friday)
Course materials
Accommodation in the Guest House Wien-Brigittenau
Full board
24-hour supervision
Daily activity program
Weekly excursions including entrance fees
Weekly laundry service
Certificate
Free pick-up from Wien Hauptbahnhof railway station
Free WiFi
Bed linen and towels
Optional — available at extra cost
Travel health insurance (optional add-on)
Not provided
Airport transfer from/to Vienna airport (VIE) - available for an extra fee · Additional fee for students booked as unaccompanied minors on the departure flight · Refundable cash deposit on arrival · Pocket money
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Special focus
German · Languages
Vienna is a language course with a full holiday programme wrapped around it, and the two are inseparable: mornings belong to 30 German lessons a week in small classes of around eleven students, taught Monday to Friday in the bright seminar rooms of the youth guest house where the students also sleep, so no one has to leave the building to get to class. Afternoons and evenings are given over to a fixed daily activity programme put together and led by the staff team — sport, games, crafting, a karaoke or movie night, a campfire, a picnic, a swim — with counsellors actively drawing students in rather than posting a sign-up sheet. Two excursions a week, half-day on Wednesday and full-day on Saturday, take the group out into the city and the surrounding region, entrance fees included. Participation in the leisure programme and the excursions is compulsory, which is the point: roommates are matched to share a language level and an age but not a mother tongue, so German becomes the natural currency of the group from breakfast to bedtime. Supervision runs around the clock, and everything — lessons, materials, accommodation, full board, laundry, activities and trips — comes as one package, so students concentrate on the language and the city rather than on logistics.
Levels welcomeA1 — BeginnerA2 — ElementaryB1 — IntermediateB2 — Upper intermediateC1 — AdvancedC2 — Proficient
Other included activities
Excursions & trips
Included in the programme
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Old town and St. Stephen's Cathedral walk
Hofburg Palace and Empress Sisi
Schönbrunn Palace
UNO City
Prater amusement park and Giant Ferris Wheel
Street art tour
Danube Island beach afternoon
Old town and St. Stephen's Cathedral walk
Hofburg Palace and Empress Sisi
Schönbrunn Palace
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Safety & Supervision
24/7 supervision
Meals
Full board is part of the course package: students receive three meals a day in the guest house where they also live and study. The school states portions are ample so students do not need to buy extra food. Special meals such as vegetarian dishes or meals without certain ingredients can be arranged on request.
Vegetarian
Screen time policy
Free WiFi is available throughout the Guest House Wien-Brigittenau, so students can keep in touch with home during their free time, and the daily programme is built so that screens never become the main event. Attendance at classes, meals, the afternoon and evening activities and the two weekly excursions is compulsory, and staff actively encourage students to speak German with each other outside the classroom, which keeps phones in pockets for most of the day. Roommates are deliberately matched across different native languages for the same reason — conversation, rather than a screen, is what fills the room.
Accommodation & campus
Where your child sleeps
Per bedroom
2 campers
Bedrooms
Shared bedrooms
Bathrooms
Ensuite bathrooms
Campus facilities
Dining Room
Classrooms
Soccer Court
Laundry
Games Room
Swimming Pool
Location & getting there
HI Hostel Vienna Brigittenau & Brigittenau Youth Palace, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 73, 1200 Wien, Austria
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Getting your child there
Airport
€45 · optionalVienna (VIE)
Pickup service · Most students fly into Vienna International Airport, where a Humboldt staff member meets them and brings them on to the guest house in Brigittenau by car, minibus or occasionally coach; the same team takes them back on departure day. The transfer is arranged on request for 45 EUR per person and route, with a further 50 EUR for students booked as unaccompanied minors on their return flight, and it is shared with other arriving students, so a wait of up to an hour (exceptionally two) should be expected. Flight details — flight number, airline and arrival and departure times — must reach the booking office no later than seven days before arrival, otherwise a late booking fee applies and waiting times may be longer. Arrival is on the Sunday before the course begins and departure on the Saturday after it ends; transfers on any other day are charged at double the fee.
By car
HI Hostel Vienna Brigittenau & Brigittenau Youth Palace, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 73, 1200 Wien, Austria
Families who drive bring their child straight to the Jugendgästehaus Wien-Brigittenau at Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 73 in Vienna's 20th district, between the Danube Island and the city centre, where both the classrooms and the bedrooms are under one roof. Drop-off is on the Sunday before lessons begin and pick-up on the Saturday after the course ends. A 50 EUR cash deposit is collected on arrival and returned on departure once the room key is handed back.
Train station
IncludedWien Hauptbahnhof
Pickup service · For students travelling by rail, staff collect them at Wien Hauptbahnhof, the city's main station, and accompany them to the guest house free of charge, so no one has to find their way across Vienna alone. As with flights, arrival is planned for the Sunday before the course starts and departure for the Saturday after it finishes, and travel details should be passed to the booking office in good time so a member of staff can be waiting on the platform.
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