Innocence and Experience

Charmian Brinson is Emeritus Professor of German at Imperial College London and a founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London. She has published numerous books and articles and has lectured extensively in Britain and abroad on the refugees from Nazism, for example on refugee organizations and on the relations between the refugees and the British. Her particular interests include women in exile and political exile. Anna Nyburg holds a PhD in Exile Studies from the University of London. The subject of her doctoral thesis was refugee art publishers in Britain. Since then she has published widely on the refugees from Nazism in art publishing, design and manufacturing. She is the author of three books, co-producer of a film, and committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies as well as a trustee of the Arts Foundation, which runs the Insiders/Outsiders festival.

Contents: Anna Nyburg: ‘A Piece of Rather Formidable News’: Motherhood in British Exile – Michal Shapira: The Psychoanalyst and Jewish Refugee Kate Friedlander (1902–1949) and Her Contribution to the Study of Children in Britain – Charmian Brinson: ‘In loco parentis?’: The Work of the Refugee Youth Organizations, Young Austria and Free German Youth, in Wartime Britain – Lucy Stone: ‘Michelle comprend le malheur’: Reading Writings by Children Displaced in the Nazi Era – Anthony Grenville: Childhood Trauma as Represented in Literary Works by Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Britain – Monica Bohm- Duchen: Innocence Sullied, Innocence Redeemed: Images of Childhood in the Work of Emigre Artists in the UK after 1933 – Julia Winckler: That Baby: Wolf Suschitzky’s and Liselotte Frankl’s Pioneering Children’s Photo Story Book – Ines Schlenker: Foreign Inspirations: Children’s Book Illustrations by Émigré Artists – Rachel Dickson: From Berlin to the Bodley Head: Renate Meyer (1930–2014): The Rediscovery of a Neglected Children’s Book Author, Illustrator and Artist – Elizabeth Lamle: Intergenerational Perspectives on Migration in the 1930s: The Letters of Lucian and Lucie Freud – Rolf Laven: A Pioneer of Children’s Art Pedagogy: Franz Čižek and His Influence in the English- Speaking World – Sian Roberts: Hilde Jarecki, Social Pedagogy and the Transformation of Society through Early Years Learning.