„Nicht Ding, sondern Mensch“

Zusammenfassung

The biography has reigned for some time on the nonfiction book market as the most successful of literary genres. In the parallel market for children’s and youth literature, this statement also applies – to a limited extent. For while biographical research has established itself as an independent field in the humanities for decades, this has not been the case in children’s and youth literary studies. This is largely due to the fact that biographies for children and adolescents have largely been pedagogically charged. The present article gives a brief overview of the biographical genre written for young audiences and discusses the literary form in an interview with Ingeborg Gleichauf, focusing on her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Gudrun Ensslin.