Puppen weinen nicht – Puppen in der Kinderlyrik

Heinz-Jürgen Kliewer

doi:10.25819/dedo/129

Dolls Do Not Cry – Dolls in Children's Poetry

Authors

Heinz-Jürgen Kliewer University of Koblenz-Landau

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25819/dedo/129

Keywords:

Children's poetry, Eduard Mörike, infant mortality, family social structure

Abstract

About two dozen children's poems presented here are about dolls. Very many draw on Mörike's "Children's Scene" from 1864, a small play scene in which the doll doctor calms the worried mother. The background is the high infant mortality rate in the 19th century. The texts provide vivid insights into the social structure of the family (mother – daughter, sister – brother).

Author Biography

Heinz-Jürgen Kliewer, University of Koblenz-Landau

Heinz-Jürgen Kliewer didactics literature and literature with a focus on children's and
Youth literature, especially children's poetry, at the University of Koblenz-Landau until 2000.
"What Does the Mouse Think on Thursday?" Collected Essays on Children's Poetry (1999); with Ursula Kliewer Die Wundertüte. Old and new poems for children (revised and supplemented new edition
2005), with Ursula Kliewer Poems in the Classroom. Elementary School and Orientation Level
(2002).

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Published

2022-10-17

How to Cite

KLIEWER, Heinz-Jürgen. Dolls Do Not Cry – Dolls in Children’s Poetry. just a bit of doll - a multidisciplinary journal for human-doll discourses, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 1, p. 43–51, 2022. DOI: 10.25819/dedo/129. Disponível em: https://dedo.ub.uni-siegen.de/index.php/de_do/article/view/129. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.