Working group for youth literature

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The working group for youth literature e. V. was founded on January 22nd, 1955 as the German umbrella organization for children's and youth literature. The Federal Ministry of the Interior and numerous associations and representatives of children's and young people's books were involved. a. Erich Kästner and Jella Lepman . Its tasks include the organization and announcement of the German Youth Literature Prize , reading promotion and orientation assistance for children's and youth literature in the form of the specialist journal JuLit and other publications. He is also internationally active as the German section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The working group is financially supported by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . 48 member associations from the fields of library, education, book trade / publishing and research and around 200 natural persons have joined together in this network. The aim is to strengthen children's and young people's literature and literary aesthetic education for children and young people in Germany. The honorary board is elected by the general assembly for a three-year term and consists of five people. The full-time office is based in Munich .

German Youth Literature Prize

The German Youth Literature Prize is donated by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and is endowed with a total of 72,000 euros. Awarded annually since 1956 for outstanding works of children's and youth literature. The organization of pricing and announcement is the responsibility of the association.

Reading promotion

The association organizes seminars for multipliers and supports reading promotion measures with the books of the German Youth Literature Prize. As part of the “Culture makes you strong” funding program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , the working group for youth literature launched the “Literanauten everywhere” initiative in 2013. Young people who are enthusiastic about reading, the “Literanauten”, develop their own book projects and literature events across Germany in order to inspire people of the same age who previously had no access to literature to read. The initiative ended in December 2017 after a five-year term.

Funding for authors and translators

A German Literature Fund , together with the Working Group for Youth Literature , annually awards the Kranichstein Youth Literature Scholarships to two young German-speaking authors. Together with the Robert Bosch Foundation, he organizes an annual international translation workshop for translators of German-language children's and youth literature .

International work

Since it was founded, the association has been the German section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The aim of this network is to give children worldwide access to books and education, to promote children's and young people's literature and to stimulate research in this area. In this context, the association represents the interests of German children's and youth literature at international congresses and competitions, trade fairs and exhibitions.

Orientation aid for children's and youth literature

For over 30 years, the working group for youth literature has published the quarterly journal JuLit , which is aimed at sponsors and mediators of children's and youth literature. Each issue offers a thematic focus on trends and issues in contemporary children's and youth literature with space for different positions and research directions. The seminars and symposia of the working group for young people's literature offered nationwide also deal with current developments in children's and young people's literature and ways of communicating literature. The annually published catalog of the books nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize offers guidance on the difficult to understand children's literature market. Creative communication concepts for working with the price books are available for download on the homepage of the Working Group for Youth Literature.

List of members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jugendliteratur.org/zeittafel_br_verbandsge-58.html
  2. ↑ http://www.jugendliteratur.org/kranichsteiner_jugendlite-50.html
  3. ↑ http://www.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/29104.asp
  4. ↑ http://www.djlp.jugendliteratur.org/praxiskonzepte-28.html
  5. ↑ AKJ :: Links :: AKJ member associations. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .