Translation Under State Control: Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic

277 Pages·2009·3.2 MB·English

by  Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth

2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g
u
A
9
2
3
4
:
8
0
t
a

]
e
r
t
n
e
C
T
E
N
B
I
L
F
N
I
[
y
b
d
e
d
a
o
l
n
w
o
D
TRANSLATION UNDER
STATE CONTROL
2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g
u
A
9
2
3
4
:
8
0
t
a

]
e
r
t
n
e
C
T
E
N
B
I
L
F
N
I
[
y
b
d
e
d
a
o
l
n
w
o
D
Children’s Literature and Culture The Making of the Modern Child
Jack Zipes, Series Editor Children’s Literature and Childhood in the
Late Eighteenth Century
by Andrew O’Malley
The Case of Peter Rabbit
Changing Conditions of Literature
How Picturebooks Work
for Children
by Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott
by Margaret Mackey
Brown Gold
The Feminine Subject in Children’s
Milestones of African American Children’s
Literature
Picture Books, 1845-2002
by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
by Michelle H. Martin
2 Ideologies of Identity in Russell Hoban/Forty Years
1 Adolescent Fiction
0 Essays on His Writing for Children
2 by Robyn McCallum by Alida Allison
t
s
u Recycling Red Riding Hood
g Apartheid and Racism in South African
u by Sandra Beckett Children’s Literature
A
by Donnarae MacCann and
9 The Poetics of Childhood Amadu Maddy
2 by Roni Natov
3
4 Empire’s Children
8: Voices of the Other Empire and Imperialism in Classic British
0 Children’s Literature and the
at Postcolonial Context Cbyh iMld.r Dena’sp Bhnooek Ksutzer
] edited by Roderick McGillis
e
tr Constructing the Canon of
n Narrating Africa
e Children’s Literature
C George Henty and the Fiction of Empire
Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers
T by Mawuena Kossi Logan by Anne Lundin
E
N Reimagining Shakespeare for Children
B Youth of Darkest England
and Young Adults
I Working Class Children at the Heart of
L edited by Naomi J. Miller
F Victorian Empire
N by Troy Boone
I Representing the Holocaust in
y [ Youth Literature Ursula K. Leguin Beyond Genre
b by Lydia Kokkola Literature for Children and Adults
d
e by Mike Cadden
d Translating for Children
a by Riitta Oittinen
o Twice-Told Children’s Tales
l
n edited by Betty Greenway
w Beatrix Potter
o Writing in Code
D Diana Wynne Jones
by M. Daphne Kutzer
The Fantastic Tradition and Children’s
Literature
Children’s Films
by Farah Mendlesohn
History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory
by Ian Wojcik-Andrews
Childhood and Children’s Books in
Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for
edited by Andrea Immel and
Children and Young Adults
Michael Witmore
edited by Carrie Hintz and Elaine Ostry
Voracious Children
Transcending Boundaries
Who Eats Whom in Children’s Literature
Writing for a Dual Audience of
by Carolyn Daniel
Children and Adults
edited by Sandra L. Beckett
National Character in South African From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood
Children’s Literature Children’s Literature and the Construction
by Elwyn Jenkins of Canadian Identity
By Elizabeth A. Galway
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in
Mary Poppins The Family in English Children’s Literature
The Governess as Provocateur Ann Alston
by Georgia Grilli
Enterprising Youth
A Critical History of French Children’s Social Values and Acculturation in
Literature, Vol. 1 & 2 Nineteenth-Century American
by Penny Brown Children’s Literature
Monika Elbert
2 Once Upon a Time in a Different World
1
0 Issues and Ideas in African American Constructing Adolescence in
2 Children’s Literature Fantastic Realism
st By Neal A. Lester Alison Waller
u
g
u The Gothic in Children’s Literature Crossover Fiction
A
Haunting the Borders Global and Historical Perspectives
9 Edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, Sandra L. Beckett
2
3 and Roderick McGillis
4 The Crossover Novel
:
8 Reading Victorian Schoolrooms Contemporary Children’s Fiction and
0
t Childhood and Education in Its Adult Readership
a Nineteenth-Century Fiction Rachel Falconer
e] by Elizabeth Gargano
tr Shakespeare in Children’s Literature
n
e Soon Come Home to This Island Gender and Cultural Capital
C
West Indians in British Children’s Literature Erica Hateley
T by Karen Sands-O’Connor
E
Critical Approaches to Food in
N
B Boys in Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature
I Popular Culture Edited by Kara K. Keeling and
L
F Masculinity, Abjection, and the Scott T. Pollard
N Fictional Child
I by Annette Wannamaker Neo-Imperialism in Children’s Literature
[
y About Africa
b Into the Closet A Study of Contemporary Fiction
d
e Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body by Yulisa Amadu Maddy and
d in Children’s Literature Donnarae MacCann
a
o by Victoria Flanagan
l
n Death, Gender and Sexuality in
w
Russian Children’s Literature and Culture Contemporary Adolescent Literature
o
D edited by Marina Balina and Kathryn James
Larissa Rudova
Fundamental Concepts of Children’s
The Outside Child In and Out of the Book Literature Research
Christine Wilkie-Stibbs Literary and Sociological Approaches
Hans-Heino Ewers
Representing Africa in Children’s
Literature Translation under State Control
Old and New Ways of Seeing Books for Young People in the German
by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Democratic Republic
Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth
The Fantasy of Family
Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature
and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal
by Liz Thiel
2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g
u
A
9
2
3
4
:
8
0
t
a
]
e
r
t
n
e
C
T
E
N
B
I
L
F
N
I
[
y
b
d
e
d
a
o
l
n
w
o
D
TRANSLATION UNDER
STATE CONTROL
Books for Young People in the
German Democratic Republic
2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g
u
A
9
2
3
4
:
8
0
t
a
]
e
tr GABY THOMSON-WOHLGEMUTH
n
e
C
T
E
N
B
I
L
F
N
I
[
y
b
d
e
d
a
o
l
n
w
o
D
NEW YORK AND LONDON
First published 2009
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Simultaneously published in the UK
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.
2 To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s
1
0 collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.
2
st © 2009 Taylor & Francis
u
g
u All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
A
9 utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known
2 or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information
3 storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
4
:
8
0 Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered
t trademarks, and are used only for identifica tion and explanation without intent
a
] to infringe.
e
r
t
n Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
e
C
Thomson-Wohlgemuth, Gaby.
T Translation under state control : books for young people in the German Democratic
E
N Republic / by Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth.
B p. cm. — (Children’s literature and culture ; 63)
LI Includes bibliographical references and index.
F 1. Children’s literature—Publishing—Germany (East) 2. Children’s literature,
N
English—Translations into German—History and criticism. 3. Translating and
I
[ interpreting—Germany (East) 4. Publishers and publishing—Political aspects—
y
b Germany (East) 5. Literature and state—Germany (East) 6. Children—Books
d and reading—Germany (East) 7. Youth—Books and reading—Germany (East)
de 8. Paratext. 9. Socialism and youth—Germany, East. 10. Germany (East)—
a Cultural policy. I. Title.
o
l Z321.4.T48 2009
n
w 070.509431—dc22
o 2008051107
D
ISBN 0-203-87656-3 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-99580-9 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-87656-3 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-99580-1 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-87656-5 (ebk)
Contents
2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g List of Figures and Tables ix
u
A
9 List of Abbreviations xi
2
3 Series Editor’s Foreword xiii
4
:
8
0 Acknowledgments xv
t
a
]
e
tr Introduction 1
n
e
C
T Chapter 1 The Historical Context of Children’s Literature in the GDR 7
E
N
B Chapter 2 Publishers and the Lion’s Den 61
I
L
F
N Chapter 3 What the Files Say 115
I
[
y
b Chapter 4 Case Studies 155
d
e
d Chapter 5 If in Doubt, Spell It Out 197
a
o
l
n
w Chapter 6 Conclusion 225
o
D
Notes 233
Bibliography 245
Index 259
vii
2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g
u
A
9
2
3
4
:
8
0
t
a
]
e
r
t
n
e
C
T
E
N
B
I
L
F
N
I
[
y
b
d
e
d
a
o
l
n
w
o
D
Tables and Figures
2
1
0
2
t
s
u
g Tables
u
A
9 1.1 Production Percentages 50
2
3
4 1.2 Percentage of Production (1961–1989) by Genre 53
:
8
0
t 2.1 Children’s Book Publishers in 1985 96
a
]
re 2.2 Royalty Rates for Reprints (1971–1977) 111
t
n
e
C 3.1 Examples of Literary Codifi cation 139
T
E 3.2 Examples of English Terms Used in the Files 141
N
B
I
L
F
N Figures
I
[
y
b 1.1 Adventure and Wild West publications. 54
d
e
d 1.2 Contemporary socio-critical and Crime and detective
a
o publications. 56
l
n
w
1.3 Science Fiction and picture book publications. 56
o
D
1.4 Animal story and fairy and folk tale publications. 57
1.5 Anti-racism and general fi ction publications. 58
2.1 Party hierarchy. 66
2.2 State apparatus. 68
2.3 Relationship between state and Party sectors. 69
2.4 Print permit: Molly Baumwollschwänzchen. 101
ix