Working group of young authors

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The Working Group of Young Authors (AJA) emerged from the model for the promotion of young authors developed by Walther Victor and Franz Hammer in Thuringia at the end of the 1940s with the Working Group of Young Authors (AJA) and was established in the 1950s as an institution for promoting young literary talent in the German Writers' Association established.

Anyone who had already distinguished and proven themselves as an author in the AJA could become a member of the Writers' Association. Parallel to the district associations of the writers' association, each district of the GDR had a working group for young authors, with the exception of the districts of Gera and Suhl , which formed a joint district association and a joint AJA. There were two working groups for young authors in Berlin.

The work of the AJA was guided and organized by the youth department (also: Department for the Promotion of Young Talent ) at the Central Secretariat of the Writers' Union in Berlin. The youth department decided in coordination with the AJA management about the granting of scholarships , exemptions and the delegation to study at the literary institute "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. The higher-level aspects of promoting young literary talents were the responsibility of the voluntary commission of the Writers' Association, which usually met quarterly and in which the AJA directors had a seat and vote.

Since this model of promoting young talent did not prove itself, the working groups of young authors were dissolved by resolution of the VIIth Writers' Congress and replaced in 1974 by the reintroduction of candidacy.