A study of the historical development of the socialist children's and youth literature in the 20th century Berlin

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24720151
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	European literature (English literature excluded)
Research Institution	Kanazawa University
Principal Investigator	SATO Fumihiko 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 准教授 (30452098)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords	ドイツ文学 / 児童文学 / 社会主義文学 / 旧東ドイツ / ベルリン / プロレタリア革命文学 / ドイツ：オーストリア
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study analyzes, how socialist children's and youth literature, which started from the proletarian-revolutionary children's and youth literature of the 1920s and 1930s, has formed and developed in the GDR after World War II. In this context Alex Wedding (1905-1966) and her literary work is of particular importance, because her debut novel "Ede und Unku" (1931), though written under the influence of Kaestner, described in detail not middle-class children, but working-class children and Sinti-children on the outskirts of the city of Berlin, what can be regarded as the seed of the later developing socialist-realistic children's and youth literature.