»die Träume gehören zweifellos zur Wirklichkeit«

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Caroline Roeder
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Dream Narratives ◽  
Literary System

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Theodor Storms Kindermärchen Der kleine Häwelmann, von dem Autor 1849 für seinen Sohn Hans verfasst und 1850 veröffentlicht, ist in seiner moralisch-komischen Form ein exemplarisches Exponat der Kinderliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Gemäß der biedermeierlich gestimmten, belehrenden Funktion des Textes steht kindliche Allmachtsfantasie im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens. Die Haltung des ›Mehr-mehr‹ überschreitet indes die Grenzen der Moralerzählung. Entgegen der abschreckenden Funktion scheint vielmehr der kleine Häwelmann in der Verschränkung von Norm-Übertritt und Eskapismus ein ›modernes‹ Kind seiner Entstehungszeit zu sein und durchaus mit den Figuren des Struwwelpeters vergleichbar, die der Arzt und Kinderpsychiater Heinrich Hoffmann 1845 entworfen hat.   »Dreams Undoubtedly Belong to Reality«Dream Narratives About Childhood and for Children The call for ›more!‹ is the force driving the protagonist of Theodor Storm’s literary fairy tale Der kleine Häwelmann (1850) on his imaginary journey through the night. This dream narrative is a combination of an exciting exploration of transcending borders with a hint of the moral tale, and can be seen as a model for the configuration of the dream motif in children’s and young adult literature. Although the dream narrative has a prominent place there, its investigation has hitherto almost exclusively taken place within the con­text of fantasy; the didactic functions of the dream, however, and the motif of the dream journey have largely been neglected. This article looks at how post­1945 children’s dream narratives explores representations of childhood. Benno Pludra’s Lütt Matten und die weiße Muschel (1963), a children’s story from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), is analysed and situated within the context of its literary system. Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963) is next considered in relation to Pludra’s text in order to pro­vide a contrastive view to a key text from the Western literary system. Both texts were hugely innovative for their time and respective systems, both use Storm’s Häwelmann as an intertextual anchor, and both, as this analysis shows, reveal recognisable societal discourses about childhood and cultural policies for children.

Schreiben lernen in der DDR

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Katja Stopka
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
High Status ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The University

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] An Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (KJL) herrschte in der DDR, die ja bekanntlich in vielen Bereichen durch Mangelwirtschaft gekennzeichnet war, tatsächlich kein Mangel. Sie wurde vom Staat gefördert und unterstützt, weil sie als wichtiges Instrument der sozialistischen Erziehung von Kindern und Jugendlichen galt (vgl. Lüdecke 2002, S. 434). Insofern besaß die KJL in der DDR einen vergleichsweise höheren gesellschaftlichen, politischen und künstlerischen Stellenwert als in der alten Bundesrepublik. Auch war die Grenze zwischen AutorInnen, die für eine erwachsene und eine kindliche bzw. jugendliche Leserschaft schrieben, nicht so strikt gezogen, wie man dies aus der Bundesrepublik kannte.   Learning to Write in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the »Johannes R. Becher« Institute for Literature There was no shortage of children's and young adult literature in the German Democratic Republic (GDR )—it was promoted and supported by the state because it was an important instrument in the socialist education of children and young adults. Relative to this high status, it is not surprising that many of the best-known authors of children's and young adult’s books in the GDR studied at the renowned »Johannes R. Becher« Institute for Literature in Leipzig. This first, and, for a long time, only institute for creative and literary writing in German speaking countries was founded in 1955 and mandated with the task of training socialist writers. It was closed after German reunification in 1990 but was incorporated in 1995 into the University of Leipzig as the Leipzig Institute for Literature. In this article, an overview of the structure, tasks and goals of the Johannes R. Becher Institute is given, and selected texts for children and young adults that were written by its students are examined. It also demonstrates how these texts can be socially and aesthetically classified within the framework and along the lines of the development of the socialist state.

Transformation and Education in GDR Youth Literature: A Script Theory Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Jean E. Conacher
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Youth Literature

Youth literature within the German Democratic Republic (GDR) officially enjoyed equal status with adult literature, with authors often writing for both audiences. Such parity of esteem pre-supposed that youth literature would also adopt the cultural–political frameworks designed to nurture the establishment of socialism on German soil. In their quest to forge a legitimate national literature capable of transforming the population, politicians and writers drew repeatedly upon the cultural heritage of Weimar classicism and the Bildungsroman, Humboldtian educational traditions and Soviet-inspired models of socialist realism. Adopting a script theory approach inspired by Jean Matter Mandler, this article explores how directive cultural policies lead to the emergence of multiple scripts which inform the nature and narrative of individual works. Three broad ideological scripts within GDR youth literature are identified which underpin four distinct narrative scripts employed by individual writers to support, challenge and ultimately subvert the primacy of the Bildungsroman genre. A close reading of works by Strittmatter, Pludra, Görlich, Tetzner and Saalmann reveals further how conceptual blending with classical and fairy-tale scripts is exploited to legitimise and at times mask critique of transformation and education inside and outside the classroom and to offer young protagonists a voice often denied their readers.

Fröschen und Gurken

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Julia Boog-Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sexual Liberation ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children And Young Adults

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Kaum eine Zeit steht so sehr für die sexuelle Befreiung und Sprengung familialer Strukturen wie die 1968er (vgl. Herzog 2005). Kaum ein Märchen steht in der psychoanalytischen Deutung so sehr für den sexuellen Reifungsprozess und das Unabhängigwerden eines Kindes wie Der Froschkönig. Der vorliegende Artikel greift diese Verbindung auf, da gerade während der 68er-Bewegung verschiedene Wasser- und Amphibienfiguren in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (KJL) vorkommen, die stark an die Motive des Märchens erinnern. Frogs and CucumbersTransformed Men in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Since 1968 In psychoanalysis, the fairy tale The Frog Prince has attracted much interest as a narrative of sexual liberation. Placing this motif at the heart of Nöstlinger’s and Pressler’s ›antiauthoritarian classics,‹ this article puts forward a new reading of literature for children and young adults. Through the ambiguity of the frog figure – oscillating between nature and culture, consciousness and unconsciousness – these books chronicle, in their own manner, the social transformation associated with 1968. They portray the emancipation movement as a hurtful and paradoxical process instead of one that reproduces the myth of linear progress.

Beyond the Blockbusters

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Limited Perspective ◽  
The Many

While the critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, the texts selected for discussion in both classrooms and scholarship has remained static and small. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give dominate conversations among scholars and critics—but they are far from the only texts in need of analysis. Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limited perspective by bringing together a series of essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked and under-discussed until now. The collection tackles a diverse range of subjects—modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice—but is united by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting glimpse of a field that continues to grow and change even as it explodes with popularity, and would make an excellent addition to the library of any scholar, instructor, or reader of young adult literature.

Popular culture’s enduring influence on childhood: Fairy tale collaboration in the young adult series The Lunar Chronicles

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lykissas
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type

Fairy tales have a long history of providing educational morals for young women, particularly children. The lessons from older fairy tales have long influenced the metanarratives regarding how women should act in our culture and contemporary versions are no different. Contemporary adaptations of these fairy tales, however, have moved the genre beyond restrictive metanarratives and are now offering new solutions to 21st-century problems like authoritarian rulers. In Marissa Meyers’ Lunar Chronicle series (2012–2015), the characters interact and work together to overcome the villain. This collaborative fairy tale is a new type of fairy tale adaptation in which the characters work together instead of focusing on their individual happily-ever-afters. My article uses postmodern and feminist literary theories along with close-reading literary analysis to examine how this young adult series shows how young adult literature has become political and is able to address adult problems in ways that are easier to process for younger readers. I focus on how the series uses the character of Levana to examine how authoritarian rulers maintain control over the populace, in order to show how the characters then work together to overthrow Levana to free the people from her oppression. This series uses collaboration to show the reader how to resolve possible problems within their own lives. Working in community then becomes as a solution for young adults who may feel disenfranchised or lonely in our increasingly divisive world. Cooperation also becomes a transgressive move against the tendency to become segregated from those around us.

The Archives and Library of the Berlin Mission Society

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 411-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich van der Heyden
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Missionary Societies

This paper highlights a rich source of history of the cultures of foreign peoples hitherto referred to little by academics—the archive and library of the Berlin Mission Society, now the Berliner Missionswerk. It will discuss the immense opportunities that the library and the archives offer for academic research. It is not intended to be a history of the Berlin Mission Society or its institutions but will rather suggest initial points of interest for further investigation. I shall also refer to the present state of research in both history and anthropology of foreign peoples based on an assessment of the materials available in the mission societies in the former German Democratic Republic. This paper then is less a contribution to theoretical problems than an attempt to draw the attention of historians, anthropologists and others to the resources of the Berlin Mission Society.In the street called Georgenkirchstrasse, No. 70, in East Berlin, opposite the fairy tale Fountain of Friedrichshain and the famous park, is the Berlin Mission House, built in 1873—the location of the Berlin Mission Society, founded in 1824. Until 1991 the latter was called the Ecumenical Missionary Centre/Berlin Mission Society (Ökumenisch-Missionarisches Zentrum/Berliner Missionsgesellschaft).As one of the largest missionary societies, its missionaries have worked since the mid-nineteenth century in South Africa and later in China and East Africa. In the long history of the Berlin Mission many printed and unpublished texts, as well as drawings, maps, and photographs were collected. The archives retain 270 meters of file. There are also the records of other missions, as well as the largest specialist library for missions and ecumenical movements (50,000 volumes and scholarly papers) in the former GDR.

Vom prophetischen Traum zum krankheitsbedingten Delirium

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Iris Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Academic Discussion

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Die Phänomene des Traums und Träumens als allnächtliche Konfrontation mit dem Fremden und Anderen des wachen (Er-)Lebens (vgl. Engel 2003, S. 153) wie auch der wachen Persönlichkeit üben eine nachhaltige Faszination aus, die maßgeblich auf ihre ambivalente Charakteristik zurückzuführen ist. Der/die Träumende befindet sich in einem Stadium jenseits der Realität, in einem Dazwischen von Leben und Tod, und ist »mit einer Erlebenswelt und einer Erlebensweise konfrontiert, die [Manfred Engel zufolge] auf ebenso evidente wie rätselhafte Weise anders sind als die des wachen Lebens« (ebd.).   From Predictive Dreaming to Pathological DeliriumNew Interpretations of Seldom-Addressed Types of Dreams in Children’s and Young Adult Literature All major categories of dreams identified in psychoanalysis occur as literary dreams in children’s and young adult literature. However, there are some categories, such as predictive dreams and pathological delirium, which have rarely been addressed in the academic discussion. Using a transdisciplinary approach, this article analyses the characteristics and functions of both types of literary dreams in texts for young readers, in each case looking at a historical and a contemporary text in order to be able to trace its specific development. The article begins with an introduction of the characteristics and historical sources of literary dreams of both types. Then, with passing references to other texts that influenced the tradition of each type of literary dream, an analysis of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s novella Wolga (1902) and Siobhan Dowd/Patrick Ness’s young adult novel A Monster Calls (2011) addresses the predictive dream, while an analysis of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s literary fairy tale Nußknacker und Mausekönig (1816) and Libba Bray’s young adult novel Going Bovine (2009) addresses pathological delirium. The conclusion draws attention to the fundamental similarities between these two types of literary dreams and their functions.

“Keep the Home Fires Burning“: Fairy Tale Heroes and Heroines in an East German Heimat

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Fritzsche
Keyword(s):  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Black Forest ◽  
Harz Mountains ◽  
East German ◽  
Feature Adaptation ◽  
Live Action ◽  
The Devil

The article argues that the films Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart, 1950) and Der Teufel von Mühlenberg (The Devil of Mill Mountain, 1955) functioned in two ways-as fairy tales and also as new Heimat or “homeland“ tale. Besides Wolfgang Staudte's The Story of Little Mook, these two films were the only two live action fairy tale films that appeared before East Germany's DEFA made its first Grimm feature adaptation in 1956, The Brave Little Tailor. Yet, unlike the Grimm-based films that take place in a generic “forest,“ these first two films take place explicitly in the Black Forest and the Harz Mountains, two locations synonymous with the beauty and timeless nature of past notions of German Heimat. The two films also engaged with the growing monetary and symbolic success of the West's postwar Heimatfilme or homeland films. The article focuses on how The Cold Heart and Mill Mountain contributed to the rearticulation of the emerging Heimat discourse in the early German Democratic Republic, with a particular focus on gender.

scholarly journals SEXUALITY CONSTRUCTION IN CINDERELLA STORY: ASH NOVEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Nafisa Zafira Taufik ◽  
Eva Leiliyanti
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychosexual Development ◽  
The Relationship

 ABSTRACT Recently, there has been a huge increase of sexuality construction studies in literature field including in Young Adult genre. Ash novel is one of young adult genre retelling the classic fairy tale story of Cinderella with the gendering plot twist of the main female character. Instead of construct the main characters to heterosexual, Malinda Lo deconstructs her gender and sexual identity. The aim of this research will focuses on investigating the relationship between the elements of psychosexual development and sexuality construction in the narratives that change the main character’s gender and sexual identity. This research are using 5 stages of development theory by Sigmund Freud and performativity theory by Judith Butler. To analyze the narratives, this research is using deconstruction theory by Jaques Derrida as methodology approach. The gendering process and sexuality construction to lesbian appears in several events that bring the main character questioning the masculine role and construct her identity by the dominant stepmother. Keywords: Sexuality Construction; Cinderella; Young - Adult Literature; Lesbian; Psychosexual Development; Performativity, Deconstruction.

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