Tématem této práce je sebevražda v německé literatuře dětí a mládeže. Nejprve jsem se zaměřila na problematiku sebevražednosti u dětí a mládeže všeobecně. Ve velmi zkrácené podobě jsem se pokusila nahlédnout do dějin sebevražednosti. Pohled na toto chování se lišil podle druhu a vývoje společnosti. Snažila jsem se vyhledat, kdo se jako první začal zajímat o problematiku sebevražednosti dětí a jak se zájem o toto téma prohluboval. Zajímalo mě, proč některé děti touží zemřít, co je k tomu vede, jaká je rodina a okolí malých sebevrahů a jaké děti mají k tomuto chování předpoklady. Také jsem se zmínila o pomoci dětem v nouzi a o prevenci sebevražednosti. V další části práce jsem psala o literatuře a sebevraždě. Toto téma jsem se snažila prohloubit tím, že jsem se zaměřila na sebevražednost v německé literatuře a v literatuře dětí a mládeže. Jako zástupce německé literatury pro děti a mládež jsem zvolila tři knihy: "Unterm Rad``, "Alles Bolero`` a "Der Vorzugsschüler``. Chtěla bych na nich ukázat, jak vývoj sebevražednosti jako tématu v dětské literatuře, tak vývoj celé společnosti, ke kterému došlo od 19. století do konce století 20..The topic of this writing is a suicide in german literature for children and teenagers. At first I focused on problematics of suicidal behavior of children and teenagers at all. In a very shortened form I have tried to peep into history of suicidal behavior. The insight on this kind of behavior used to be differed considering the type of a kind and level of social development. I´ve tried to seek who was the first man interested in the problematics of suicidal attempts in childhood and how deeply he studied it. I wanted to know why there are children who long for death and what leads them to do it, what is the family like, what is the surroundings of a small selfmurderes like and I also wanted to know if there is any presupposition for those children. I also mentioned the form of help for children in need and about prevention from a suicide. In the next part of my writing I was wrting about literature and suicide.I have tried to intensify this topic by focusing on a suicide in a german literature and in a children´s literature and literature for teenagers. As a representative for german literature for children and teenagers I chose following three books: "Unterm Rad`` , " Alles Bolero`` and " Der Vorzugsschuler``. On these books I would like to show the deveopment of suicide as a topic in a kid´s literature as well as the development of the whole society,,which happened in the interval of 19th century till the end of 20th century. There is a very stricking change in a position of woman in the family. Children and teenagers have much more liberty but their life is ofently complicated due to bad relationships in a family,drugs, alcoholism etc. Those three books are linked by the topic of death. In my writing I´ll try at least to analyse those books, compare their fables and I´ll try to find the connections and the differences. Each book has its own enunciation aboat the society, family surroundings and about the fables. It also shows how children and theenagers perceive a death,suicide and how are they able to come up to it. The age of the fables varies from 13 till 18 years. So then we can observe their development in their personal life, problematics of adolescence and still growing liberty. The attitude to suicide is changing. In " Der Vorzugsschuler`` the fable will commite a suicide, in " Unterm Rad`` there we cann´t be sure if it was a suicide and in " Alles Bolero`` it was more likely an accident that didn´t lead in death. Same like the growing fables start come to realize the meaning of death and the effect of suicide to their surroundings, they also perceive love more intensively.