Rumäniendeutsche Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 1944 - 1989 – Vorbericht zu einer Bibliographie

The study – published here in German – analyzes by interdisciplinary means (German studies, sociology, history, political science, etc.) not only German literature in Romania “destined” for children and young people in the communist period, but the whole cultural-literary phenomenon of the German minority in Romania. The research thus renders problematic anew the concept of “German literature from Romania” (rumäniendeutsche Literatur) and its destiny in the different periods of the history of Romanian communism, along with that of publishing houses and periodicals, etc. In the following, the very concept of “literature for children and the young” is analyzed in detail, with special attention to its sociological, historical, ideological, and of course political aspects. The whole process of communist politization, ideologization, and instrumentalization is browsed through, which concentrated its special attention exactly over this social category, and these kinds of publications.

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