Kinderliteratur in der DDR als Medium von Bildung und Erziehung

In the GDR, children's and young people's literature belonged to the so-called educational media and was intended to contribute to the education of an all-round educated socialist personality. Children's literature therefore had a high social and political status in the so-called reading country of the GDR; children's books were published in large editions and should be available to as many children as possible.

In this lecture, children's literature in the GDR will be examined from a cultural-theoretical perspective to determine which cultural knowledge of the GDR materialised in it in order to analyse it as a kind of memory store of social conditions and dominant discourses. The focus is particularly on gender and generation in the stories told through text and image.

The series of lectures on childhood and media education is a co-operation between the Thuringian Institute for Childhood Education at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and the Workshop for Media Education at the University of Erfurt.

Registration is not required. The event will take place at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, House 4 (Altonaer Str. 25) in Room 4.E 04.