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Dr. Sebastian Schmideler

Dr. Sebastian Schmideler

Research Fellow

Grundschuldidaktik Deutsch
Haus 3
Marschnerstraße 31, Room 008
04109 Leipzig

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Abstract

After studying German, Medieval and Modern History (Magister) as well as German, History and Education at the University of Leipzig, I was a research assistant for the DFG project "Edition der sämtlichen Briefe Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys" at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Leipzig from 2005 to 2012. In 2011, I received my doctorate (Dr. phil.) summa cum laude from the University of Leipzig with a study on the reception of the Middle Ages in children's and youth literature from the 18th century to 1945. After positions as a research assistant for the field of children's and youth literature research/didactics of literature at the University of Bielefeld (2012-2014), at the Center for Teacher Education at the TU Chemnitz (2014-2016), I have been working with a focus on children's and youth literature/didactics of literature at the Institute for Pedagogy and Didactics in Elementary and Primary Education at the Faculty of Education at the University of Leipzig since 2016

Professional career

  • 01/2005 - 09/2012
    Collaborator of the DFG-funded long-term project "Edition of the complete letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" at the Institute of Musicology of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies at the University of Leipzig
  • 04/2006 - 04/2020
    Lectureships at the University of Leipzig, the University of Bielefeld and the University of Erfurt
  • 10/2012 - 09/2014
    Research assistant for children's and young adult literature and didactics of literature at the Chair of Modern German Literature/Children's and Young Adult Literature and Didactics of Literature at Bielefeld University (Prof.'in Petra Josting)
  • 10/2014 - 09/2016
    Research assistant for children's and young people's literature and literature didactics at the Center for Teacher Education at Chemnitz University of Technology, Chair of Elementary German Didactics
  • since 10/2016
    Research assistant for children's and youth literature at the Institute for Pedagogy and Didactics in Elementary and Primary Education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Leipzig, Professorship for German Didactics in Elementary Education

Education

  • 10/1999 - 03/2006
    Double degree in Medieval/Newer History and German Studies in the Master's program as well as the subjects German and History in the teacher training program for the higher teaching profession at grammar schools at the University of Leipzig
  • 06/2005
    Magister Artium (M.A.) German Studies and Medieval/Newer History
  • 07/2006
    First state examination for the higher teaching profession at grammar schools for the subjects German and History
  • 01/2011
    Doctorate in Philosophy (Dr. phil.) at the Institute for German Studies of the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig (summ cum laude) with a study on the reception of the Middle Ages in children's and youth literature (1700-1945)

My current research focuses are:



  • History, systematics, and theory of children's and young adult literature from the 18th century to the present.
  • non-fiction/non-fiction books for children and adolescents
  • Children's and youth literature and visual education (text-image relationships)
  • Children's and youth literature of the GDR
  • Publishing history of children's and youth literature
  • Children's and Youth Literature and Digital Humanities



Among other things, I am co-editor of the journal kjlm. Forschung.Schule.Bibliothek and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jahrbuch Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung.



In addition, I have published together with Holger Steinberg on the history of psychiatry (Johann Christian August Heinroth, the "Woyzeck case") as well as on the literary history of the 18th and 19th centuries, on the work of Erich Kästner and was involved in the edition of the complete letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy as a volume editor.

  • Riegler, S.; Schmideler, S. (Eds.)
    Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in Leipzig. Orte - Akteure - Perspektiven
    Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2016.
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  • Brüdermann, S.; Schmideler, S. (Eds.)
    Bilderbücher, Reimgeschichten. Leben, Werk und Wirkung des Bückeburger Kinderlyrikers Adolf Holst
    Göttingen: Wallstein. 2021.
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  • Helm, W.; Schmideler, S. (Eds.)
    BildWissen - KinderBuch. Historische Sachliteratur für Kinder und Jugendliche und ihre digitale Analyse
    Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler. 2021.
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  • Schmideler, S. (Ed.)
    Wissensvermittlung in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der DDR. Themen, Formen, Strukturen, Illustrationen
    Göttingen: v et r unipress. 2017.
    ISBN: 978-3-8471-0678-4
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Teaching focus:



  •  History of children's and young adult literature from its beginnings to the present.
  • Systematics of children's and youth literature (genres and genres in their diversity and breadth)
  • Theory of children's and youth literature
  • Children's and youth literature in the classroom with a focus on German as a subject at the primary level
  • Media associations of children's and young people's literature/media-integrative German lessons at primary level