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

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• 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

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.

Free Research Field

近現代ドイツ・オーストリア文学