German-Language Children's and Youth Literature In The Media Network 1900-1945.

With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the recording of all data in an online portal for research and visual analysis, an innovative contribution to the historiography of children's and youth literature is available. The introduction provides information on the criteria for inclusion, central sources, theoretical frameworks, and the spectrum of the media associations investigated. Part I assembles three overview articles on the media of radio, film and theater for children and young people as well as a contribution on the conception and development of the online portal. In the second part, 18 selected media alliances are presented, sorted into the categories pioneers conquer the new media - stage children migrate to radio and/or film - fairy tales in film and radio - classics in all media - school stories in the theater, book and on the screen - crime and scandal on the screen - political conquers book and film. Preface Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Introduction: Concepts, Corpus and Strategies of Media Network Research Recording Criteria of Children’s and Youth Film Recording Criteria for Children’s and Youth Radio Programmes Recording Criteria for Children’s and Youth Theatre Recording Criteria for Print Media, Vinyl, and Advertising Material Media Networks: Theoretical Frameworks Media as a Compact Concept According to Siegfried J. Schmidt Limits of Schmidt’s Media System Model Popular Culture Network Models The Media Convergence Model by Henry Jenkins Jenkins’ Critical Reception Marc Steinberg’s Character-Centred Media Networks Seriality Theories Network Discussion in Children’s and Youth Literature Research Storytising as Brand Management Marketing Science Models Media Networks from 1900 to 1945 Definition Spectrum of Media Networks References Project Horizons: Introduction and Overview Children’s and Youth Radio from 1924 to 1945 Current State of Research and Desiderata Political and Economic Framework of Early Radio Broadcasting Technical Requirements of the Reception Programme Press Offers for Children and Young People in the Radio of the Weimar Republic Funk-Stunde AG Nordische Rundfunk AG (Norag) Südwestdeutscher Rundfunkdienst AG (SWR) Süddeutsche Rundfunk A. G. (Sürag) Deutsche Stunde in Bayern GmbH Ostmarken-Rundfunk AG (Orag) Schlesische Funkstunde AG Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (Mirag) Westdeutsche Funkstunde AG (Wefag): Westdeutsche Rundfunk AG (Werag) Deutsche Welle GmbH Children’s and Youth Broadcasts from Austria and Switzerland Children’s and Youth Broadcasts from 1933 and until the End of the War Summary References Primary Literature Audiography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Children’s and Youth Films from 1900 to 1945 State of Research and Desiderata Children’s and Youth Film in the Empire Children’s and Youth Film in the Weimar Republic Children’s and Youth Film During the National Socialist Era Summary and Outlook References Filmography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Children’s and Youth Theatre from 1900 to 1945 References Digital Explorations of Historical Media Networks Introduction Goals and Challenges From Theory to Metadata Structure Conceptual Considerations Technical Realisation Search Engine Environment and Visualisation Conceptual Considerations Technical Realisation Application Scenarios (Un)conventional Search Queries Double Perspectives with Timeline and Navigator Media Networks in Profile Summary References Primary Literature Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Pioneers Take Over the New Types of Media From Children’s Theatre to Film Introduction Historical Framework Genschow’s Productions Stage and Film in the 1930s With the Children’s Theatre Through Germany (1934) Genschow’s Studio des Jugendfilms General Stift und seine Bande (1937) Contemporary Reception of Genschow’s Work Conclusion References Primary Literature Filmography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Mickey Mouse Introduction and Preliminary Considerations Mickey Mouse as a Brand in 1930s Germany Disney’s Animated Films in the German Trade Press: Typically American! Mickey Mouse in the Comic Strips of German Daily Newspapers The German Counter-Propaganda Concluding Remarks References Primary Literature Filmography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Funkheinzelmann Preliminary Remarks Funkheinzelmann: A Radio Figure Becomes a Brand Event Marketing Geographical Expansion and Programme Diversification Brand Extensions The Record The Revue The Fairy Tale Storybooks Merchandising Funkheinzelmann: The Children’s Magazine The Author as the Motor of Seriality References Primary Literature Audiography Discography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Stage Children Migrate to Radio and/or Film To the Moon and Back Prehistory: Introduction The Nursery: Starting Point The Starry Meadow: Author and Text The Milky Way: Visual Design The Castle of the Night Fairy: Sonority and Music The Christmas Meadow: Consumer Orientation and Branding The Moon: Time and Space Back in the Nursery: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations or the Journey to the Media Network References Primary Literature Filmography Audiography Theatrography Other Media Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 In Never-Never Land Introduction A Novel for Adults and a Children’s Book Consisting of Some of Its Chapters: The Little White Bird (1902) – Kleiner weißer Vogel (2010) and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) – Peter Pan im Waldpark (1911) James M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The English and the German Stage Play – Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (1904/1928) – Peter Gerneklein (Der Knabe welcher nicht gross werden wollte) (1904/1910) – Peter Pan, oder Das Märchen vom Jungen, James M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: Prose Versions or Peter Pan in Germany After 1945 The First Film Adaptation of Peter Pan (1924) Conclusion Literature Primary Literature Filmography Audiography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Urian’s Travels Around the World Away From the ‘Miracle’: Lisa Tetzner and the Hans Urian Stoff The Hans Urian Project The Literary Pretexts The First Performance Reception as a Laienspiel Play From the Play to the Children’s Novel History of Translation and Editing Continuations The DEFA Hand Puppet Film Is the Hans Urian Project a Medienverbund (Media Network)? References Primary Literature Original Versions Incl. Reprints and Translations Literary Pretexts Continuations Filmography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Fairy Tales in Film and Radio “That Was a Wonderful Fairy Tale!” Introduction The (Original) Fairy Tale Der fliegende Koffer The Dissemination and Processing of the Fairy Tale in Books Animated Films and Series Appearances: Der fliegende Koffer on Screen Lotte Reiniger’s Der fliegende Koffer (1921) Der fliegende Koffer (1944): Hohnsteiner Puppenspiele Recent Cartoons: The Flying Trunk (Story) (2003 and 2018) Der fliegende Koffer and Its Television Appearances: Sandmännchen and Siebenstein Der fliegende Koffer Audio Book/Play: From the Radio of the Weimar Republic to MP3 Files Suitcase, Art, and Consumption: The Colourful Palette of Merchandising Products Conclusion on the Media Network References Primary Literature Audiography Filmography Other Media/Products Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Mutabor! Retrospect Hauff’s Fairy Tales Early Films of Hauff’s Fairy Tales Der kleine Muck Kalif Storch Das kalte Herz Final Thoughts References Primary Literature Filmography Other Media Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Classics in All Types of Media Max und Moritz Across Media Wilhelm Busch and the Genesis of the Bubenstreich-Erzählung Max und Moritz as a Media Phenomenon (1865–1930) The “Buschiade” as a Follow-Up: Imitation – Adaptation – Parody Max und Moritz on Stage ... ... and on the Screen Max und Moritz as the Initial Spark of the Comic Strip The Beginnings of the “Katzenjammer Kids” by Rudolph Dirks Transdiegetic Narrative and Characteristic Figure Speech The Establishment of the “Kid Strip” and Its Transformations Max und Moritz: A Media Network? References Primary Literature Filmography Audiography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Robinsonades between 1900 and 1945 Theoretical Framework: On the Significance of Children’s and Youth Media On the Systematics of Robinson Adaptations and Robinsonades for Children and Adolescents Historical Contextualisation I: On the Impact History of the Successful Model of the Robinsonades Historical Contextualisation II: On the History of Reception between 1900 and 1945 Robinsonades in the Media Network Film, Radio, Book: Robinson and Robinsonades in Individual Specific Types of Media Movie Versions “Robinson” on the Radio Tendencies of Modernisation in the Book Reception of the Robinsonades Conclusion: Reflections and Theses on the Media Network Discussion Literature Primary Literature Filmography Audiography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 School Stories in the Theatre, Book and on the Screen Beyond Romy and Lilli Preliminary Considerations History and Genre Traditions Christa Winsloe’s Boarding School Story in the Media Network (1930–1936) Transmedial Narrative Worlds Since the 1950s Intertextual and -medial References Within the Drama, Film, and Novel Version(s) The Film Mädchen in Uniform as a Brand and Reference Text Conclusion References Primary Literature Filmography Audiography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Traumulus Introduction The “Production Community” Between Arno Holz and Oskar Jerschke Traumulus: Pupil Drama and Pupil Suicide in the Wilhelminian Era Traumulus’ Reception on Stage The Film Sector of the National Socialist Era Traumulus (1935): Rated as State-Political and as an Artistically Especially Valuable Film Reception and Distribution of the Film Version Traumulus Conclusion and Traumulus Today References Primary Literature Filmography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 “Da stelle ma uns mal janz dumm” Introduction: Surveying the Current Situation The Media Compact Concept as an Instrument of Analysis for the Media Network System Feuerzangenbowle The Novel Die Feuerzangenbowle (1933) The Film Versions from the Years 1934, 1944 and 1970 Summary References Primary Media Filmography Audiography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Crime and the Scandalous on the Big Screen Emotionalisation Between Sexuality, Generational Conflict, and Discourse on Power Introduction The Steglitzer Schülertragödie as a Media Network? The Press as a Medium of Documentation and Emotionalisation Transmedial Extensions of the Stoff: Sexuality, Generational Conflict Discourse on Power in the Media Network The Student Drama as a Literary Reference System The Steglitzer Schülertragödie in the Film Media System Revolte im Erziehungshaus Concluding Remarks References Primary Literature Filmography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 The Commercial Genre Supersystem of Early Cinema Screen Detectives Preliminary Remarks The Beginnings of the Detective Film: Sherlock Holmes Detective Movies in Series: Sherlock Holmes, Nat Pinkerton and Especially Nick Carter Kinoschund and Trivialisation, Censorship: And How Children Got into the Cinema The Detective Film of the War Years: Stuart Webbs and Joe Deebs The Genre System of the Early Screen Detectives References Primary Literature Filmography Theatrography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 “Donnerwetter, das ist famos” The Girls’ Book Was tun, Sibylle? Lines of Tradition and References of the Novel The Film as an Educator or Die kleinen Ladenmädchen gehen ins Kino The Film Version Was tun, Sibylle? The Ideal of Women in National Socialism as Measured by the Reading Stoff of the Class Social Situation Design of the Film with Attributes of Modernity Racial-Propagandistic Iconography Theft: Volksgemeinschaft School and Educational Maxims Conclusion and Outlook References Primary Literature Filmography Secondary Literature After 1945 Politics Conquer Book and Film Pacifist Anti-War Films of the Pre-Fascist Era Introduction Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (USA 1930) Novel and Film Adaptation (Post Processing): A Comparison from a Narratological Perspective The Production of the Film from a Media-Aesthetic Perspective Distribution: Posters and Advertisements Reception: Political Debates and Censorship Post Processing: Reactions and Debates in the Feature Pages of the Daily Press and in Film Magazines The Media Network Around Im Westen nichts Neues from a Synchronous Perspective: Niemandsland and the Westfront 1918 Niemandsland from a Production Perspective On the Reception of Niemandsland in the Mirror of Post Processing Reception and Post Processing of Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) in Comparison with Westfront 1918 The Media Network around Im Westen nichts Neues from a Diachronic Perspective Im Westen nichts Neues: Eine Graphic Novel (2014) Conclusion References Primary Literature Filmography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945 Boyish Romance in a Timeless Idyll? Preliminary Note Career Steps Upright and Down to Earth Fight and Play Defensible Bodies Bold Realism or a Trendy Film? Director and Composer Instruction, Probation, Conversion References Primary Literature Filmography Secondary Literature Before 1945 Secondary Literature After 1945