Profile

Professional career

• 04/2004 - 03/2005
  Volunteer at Leipzig University Press
• 04/2005 - 09/2008
  Editor at Leipzig University Press
• 04/2010 - 09/2010
  Lecturer at the German Department of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• 11/2011 - 12/2015
  Scientific and Research Editor at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) of the University of Leipzig
• 08/2017 - 11/2020
  Research assistant in the research project "Entwicklung der Bildikonographie in Wissen vermittelnder Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Schullehrbüchern des 19. Jahrhunderts. A Distant Viewing Approach"
• since 12/2020
  Research assistant at the Institute for Pedagogy and Didactics in Elementary and Primary Education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Leipzig, Chair of German Elementary School Didactics
• since 03/2024
  Project management "Book childhood digital - potentials of scalable image analysis methods for knowledge cultures of children's and young adult books"

Education

• 10/1997 - 09/2003
  Studies of German Literature, Pedagogics and Psychology at the University of Jena
• 10/2008 - 09/2011
  Graduate Fellow of the Research Group "Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge" at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

• History and theory of children's and youth literature
• Children's literature of the GDR
• Genre systematics ( e.g. children's and youth non-fiction, quizzes, biographical literature, children's and youth magazines)
• medial phenomena of children's and youth literature
• Publishers, authors and illustrators of children's and youth literature
• Methods of Digital Humanities in Children's and Youth Literature Research

• Entwicklung der Bildikonographie in Wissen vermittelnder Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Schullehrbüchern des 19. Jahrhunderts: ein Distant Viewing Ansatz

  Schmideler, Sebastian

  Duration: 03/2017 – 11/2020

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Grundschuldidaktik Deutsch
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• Otto Spamers Bücherfabrik. Sachbuchwelten für die Jugend

  Blume, Patricia

  Duration: 10/2019 – 12/2020

  Funded by: Andere öffentliche Bereiche; Fördergesellschaften

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Buchwissenschaft; Grundschuldidaktik Deutsch
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• Book childhood digital. Potentials of scalable image analysis methods for knowledge cultures of children's and youth books in the "long 19th century"

  Helm, Wiebke

  Duration: 02/2024 – 10/2025

  Funded by: SMWK Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Grundschuldidaktik Deutsch; Computational Humanities
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more projects

• Helm, W.

  Der geöffnete Mensch. Anatomie- und Mikroskopiebilder im Kinder- und Jugendbuch der Aufklärung

  In: Fulda, D. (Ed.)

  Aufklärung fürs Auge. Ein anderer Blick auf das 18. Jahrhundert. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag. 2020. pp. 129–143.
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• Helm, W.; Blume, P. (Eds.)

  Die Bücherfabrik. Geschichte des Leipziger Otto Spamer Verlages

  Markkleeberg: Sax Verlag. 2020.
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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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• Helm, W.

  "Sorgfältige Auswahl und größte Mannichfaltigkeit der Illustrationen". Das Bildrepertoire des Otto Spamer Verlages

  Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte. 2021. pp. 149–176.
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• Helm, W.

  "Geschenksendung, keine Handelsware"? Otfried Preußlers Kinderbücher in der DDR

  Otfried Preußler. München: kopaed. 2023. pp. -–-.
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more publications

• Animals in children's and youth literature

  Seminar summer term 2021

• Didactics of reading and literature

  Seminar winter term 2021/22

• Little Red Riding Hood & Co. in the classroom. Fairy tales rediscovered for German lessons

  Seminar summer term 2022

  
  

• Little Red Riding Hood & Co. in the classroom. Fairy tales rediscovered for German lessons

  Seminar winter term 2022/23

• Fairy tales intermedial

  Seminar summer term 2023

• Teaching and Learning Material for Basic Reading and Writing Lessons

  Seminar winter term 2023/24

• Teaching and Learning Material for Basic Reading and Writing Lessons

  Seminar summer term 2024