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Some personal stories of German immigration to Australia since 1945 / Ingrid Muenstermann, Editor.

Some personal stories of German immigration to Australia since 1945 / Ingrid Muenstermann, Editor.
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ISBN 9781503503120 (Softcover)
9781503503144 (Hardcover)
Title Some personal stories of German immigration to Australia since 1945 / Ingrid Muenstermann, Editor.
Publisher and/or associated date/s [Adelaide, S.A.] : Xlibris [for] Ingrid Muenstermann, 2015.
©2015.
Description xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Pt. I. Ch. 1.1. Some personal reflections / Ingrid Muenstermann -- Ch. 1.2. Overview -- Pt. II. 1946 to 1951 -- Ch. 2.1. Anthony Kamphausen (1949) : employment of scientific and technical enemy aliens -- Ch. 2.2. Alfons Stuetz (1951) : the Jennings Germans -- Ch. 2.3. Horst Blaich (1951) : a young man on the way to a new world of hope -- Ch. 2.4. Arno Meier (1951) : a Thursday's child - the journey from Upper Silesia to Tasmania -- Pt. III. 1952 to 1959 -- Ch. 3.1. Gisela Outrata (1954) : life's full circle : the adventure of two sisters migrating to Australia -- Ch. 3.2. Albert Loeffel (1954) : some challenging experiences in our adopted country -- Ch. 3.3. Hans Roleff (1956) : remembering the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne -- Ch. 3.4. Ilse Beckers : satisfaction and a sense of achievement through hard work -- Ch. 3.5. Sigrid Hawker (1957) : reflections on a young person's struggle to fit into Australian society : no more Sally Brown! -- Ch. 3.6. Albert Koenig (1957) : remembering the family's impression of Bonegilla and the railway trip across the Nullarbor -- Ch. 3.7. Sigrid Erdt (1957) : experiences of a migrant woman : surviving Bonegilla, widowhood, establishing a coffee shop, and teaching German -- Pt. IV. 1960 to 1969 -- Ch. 4.1. Gundula Schuetze (1960) : our migration with gratitude -- Ch. 4.2. Katrin (Gisela) Ogilvy (1961) : the fine line of life : experiences of a German woman migrating to Australia -- Ch. 4.3. Gerlinde Cayzer (1967) : 'Giving it a go' inspired by lifelong learning -- Ch. 4.4. Walter Veit (1967) : tribute to Irmline - remembering my wife --
Ch. 4.5. Irmline Veit-Brause (1967) : a real and imagined autobiography. Academic life stories in Australia and Germany -- Ch. 4.6. Heiner Herbst (1969) : a fulfilled, satisfying life -- Ch. 4.7. Oliver Burmeister (1969) : the importance of intergenerational relationships -- Pt. V. 1970 to 1979 -- Ch. 5.1. Sabine Hauth (1977) : some interesting experiences of a German language teacher -- Pt. VI. 1980 to 1989 -- Ch. 6.1. Detlef Sulzer (1983) : from migrant to Honorary Consul of Germany in Queensland -- Ch. 6.2. Helmut Kater (1985 and 2005) : retiring in Australia - Helmut's and Waltraud's journey from Achim-Baden in Germany to Sydney and to Wagga Wagga in Australia -- Ch. 6.3. Engelhard Weigl (1988) : 1988 bis 2011 - Einfluesse auf mein Leben : Dreiundzwanzig Jahre Australien -- 1988 to 2011 - Influences on my life : twenty-three years in Australia --Ch. 6.4. Rolf Schlagloth (1988) : from reading Karl Mai to becoming a teacher at Ballarat High - a satisfying and exciting journey -- Pt. VII. 1990 to 2012 -- Ch. 7.1. Beate Pasch (1992) : happily ever after in Australia -- Ch. 7.2. Nicola Wunderlich (1996) : frustration, tears, and bribery : a trip down the Australian memory lane -- Ch. 7.3. Stefan Mueller (2003) : cultural differences - the need to adjust -- Pt. VIII. Migrant support organisations -- Ch. 8.1. Gerd Aberle, Gerhard Schulz, Heinz Wendt, Helmut Ruff : Cub Tivoli, Melbourne -- Ch. 8.2. Fred Kleitsch, Teresa Marshall : the Danube-Swabians - Donauschwaben, Adelaide -- Ch. 8.3. Ingrid Muenstermann : the importance of ethnic clubs and some thoughts on South Australia's German population and its club membership -- Pt. IX. Interviewing Ernie Salomon / Ingrid Muenstermann.
Summary This book deals with immigration processes of Germans who have arrived in Australia since 1945. It is an attempt to catch the voices of these people, to let them talk about their hopes, aspirations, achievements and disappointments. In 2010 notices were sent out all over Australia, asking 'Germans' (most of them Australians today) to write about their experiences, about challenges and positive happenings. The book contains 28 chapters written by German-born women and men from all walks of life, some came to Australia as children, some as adults, others talk about the lives of their immigrant parents, one person pays tribute to a partner he has lost recently, another person looks back at twenty-three years in Australia and the fine line that divides him and the Australian people. Most, but not all, are success stories. This book also includes three chapters about organisations that provided a buffer zone for new arrivals in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: Club Tivoli of Melbourne, the Club of the Danube Swabians in Adelaide, and the SA German Club. The final chapter is an interview with a person who had to flee Nazi Germany in 1938, with Ernie Salomon.
Subjects Germans -- Australia -- History
Jews, German -- Australia -- History
Immigrants -- Australia -- History
Immigrants -- Australia -- Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
Australia -- Migrants -- History
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Muenstermann, Ingrid (editor.)
Call number 2018.572
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