Stephanie Jug
(Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia)

30 September 2026 (Wednesday) at 11:00 CET
Institute of World Literature SAS + online

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The lecture is organized as part of the APVV Memory, Space and Identity in German-Speaking /Transcultural/ Literature from Modernity to the Present.

Children’s autonomy, defiance and lack of discipline seem like contemporary problems that often afflict not only worried parents but also their immediate environment. However, writers at the end of the 19th century show examples of defiant, independent and, above all, curious children, with a touch of humor and criticism. Moreover, using the example of their little literary heroes, they also somewhat give didactic lessons about how thin the line between discipline and violence can become, and under what conditions a child can develop into a mature person. The lecture will show, using examples of literary works in German, how a specific upbringing in a Slavonian town or village can affect a child’s upbringing, and what moral lessons the authors draw from it.

Doc. dr. sc. Stephanie Jug is Assistant Professor at the Department of German Language and Literature of the Faculty of Humanisties and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia. Her main research interests are regional literature in German language, motif theory and history and theory of literature about the EU. She is a member of the Editorial board of the scientific journal Anafora. Her public research profile is available on CroRIS.