Malte Dahrendorf

Malte Dahrendorf (born October 2, 1928 in Hamburg ; † May 13, 2008 ibid) was a German researcher in the field of children's and youth literature and a university teacher.

After studying to be a teacher at elementary and secondary schools and subsequent doctorate to become a Dr. phil. (1955) at the University of Hamburg, Dahrendorf worked as a teacher in Hamburg from 1954 to 1965. From 1965 he was seconded to the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Hamburg and was there from 1969-70 lecturer. In 1970 he was offered a professorship for German didactics at the University of Education in Kiel . From 1976 until his retirement in 1992 Dahrendorf was a professor in the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg. In 1983 he taught as visiting professor in Sydney at the University of New South Wales and in 1994 in Istanbul .

From 1960 he was for several years 2nd chairman of the Hamburg youth publications committee and 1960–72 2nd chairman of the united youth literature committee (VJA) at federal level. He was also involved in international committees, in collaboration with Klaus Doderer from Frankfurt am Main. Together with him and Alfred Clemens Baumgärtner (Würzburg), Theodor Brüggemann (Cologne) and Horst Künnemann (Hamburg) he was one of the founders of research in the field of children's and youth literature. 1972–2001 he was the editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine "Informations Jugendliteratur und Medien" (renamed in 1992 after the merger with the East Berlin specialist magazine "Contributions to Children's and Young Adult Literature" to "Contributions to Youth Literature and Media", since 2007 under the name "kjl & m") which is published by the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugendliteratur und Medien” (AJuM) on behalf of the Education and Science Union .

In Berlin he was involved in the group Der Rote Elefant . He suggested the Heinrich Wolgast Prize , which honors the representation of the world of work in children's and youth literature.

In the evaluation of children's and youth literature, Dahrendorf pushed through the expansion of the concept of literature, questioned the conventional trash concept, advocated comics and called for positions that are critical of society, for example in the criticism of traditional girls' books or in the promotion of critical books about the Nazi Time. He also dealt with the children's and youth literature of the GDR. Children should deal with contemporary and political issues. His left positions met with lively approval as well as criticism.

Fonts

• Children's and youth literature , Berlin 1995
• bibliography

literature

• Horst Heidtmann: Youth literature and society for Malte Dahrendorf on his 65th birthday, Weinheim 1993

Web links

• Memory of Malte Dahrendorf
• Literature by and about Malte Dahrendorf in the catalog of the German National Library