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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting 27 Mar 2025 - FoLA AGM & The Biar family divided (Geoff Saegenschnitter)
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Meeting March 2025\nFoLA AGM (7pm)\nThe Biar family divided: Emigrants on two continents (Geoff Saegenschnitter) (7.30pm)\nWhile researching and publishing the Biar family history in Australia in 1971\, Geoff Saegenschnitter discovered that the Biar family were of Wendish origin rather than German\, and that two Biar brothers left their home in Groditz\, Saxony within two months of each other in 1854. One went to Texas USA and the other to South Australia\, never to see each other again. Quite by accident\, 41 letters from SA to the Biar family in Texas from 1881 to 1926 to successive generations of the Biar family were found and have been translated. \nToday\, Geoff maintains contact with the family in Australia\, USA and Germany and is a member of the Wendish Heritage societies in SA\, Victoria and Texas\, and his presentation will focus on all these aspects. \nGeoff is the current Chairman of FoLA and author of a number of family and local history books. \nAlso available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live\n\nSpeakers: Geoff Saegenschnitter\n\n$6 donation at the door. No bookings required.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-meeting-27-mar-2025-fola-agm-the-biar-family-divided-geoff-saegenschnitter/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting February 2025 - Mads Christensen: A Danish pastor in New Zealand
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Meeting February 2025\nMads Christensen: A Danish pastor in New Zealand\nDuring the 1870s there was a significant emigration from Scandinavia to the North Island of New Zealand. Some three thousand Danes\, Norwegians and Swedes settled on land allocated by the government in Wairarapa and southern Hawkes Bay. To minister to them\, the first Danish Lutheran pastor arrived in 1878. Mads Christensen was sent to New Zealand in 1886 by the Inner Mission\, an association within the Church of Denmark. He was pastor of the Danish Lutheran congregation in Palmerston North\, the region’s largest town\, from 1894 to 1927.\n\nDavid Hilliard is a former associate professor of History at Flinders University. He is an expert on Australian religious history of the Anglican church since 1945 and secularization of modern life\, and previously served as associate editor of the Journal of Religious History\, advisory editor of Anglican & Episcopal History\, and as a member of the international advisory board for the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.\n\n\nAlso available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live\n\nSpeakers: David Hilliard\n\n$6 donation at the door. No bookings required.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-meeting-february-2025-mads-christensen-a-danish-pastor-in-new-zealand/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Adelaide:20240919T193000
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting September 2024 - An Indigenous South: German Writers on Colonial South Australia
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Meeting September 2024\nAn Indigenous South: German Writers on Colonial South Australia\nFrom its earliest years\, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. Its capital named for a German-born queen\, it prospered from the sweat of immigrants who chose to leave their German homelands behind them. \nAs they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony\, these Germans observed the processes of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than that\, they participated in those profound and tragic changes. Importantly\, these German settlers and visitors left behind records of the events they witnessed. The book collects those precious records and makes them available – most for the first time in English – to a modern Australian readership. \nSpeakers: Peter Monteath and Matthew Fitzpatrick\nPeter Monteath is a Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide\, Australia. Born and raised in Brisbane before attending the University of Queensland\, Siegen University (Federal Republic of Germany) and Griffith University\, Peter has taught previously at The University of Queensland\, Griffith University\, Deakin University\, The University of Western Australia and The University of Adelaide. He has also been Adjunct Professor at The University of St. Louis Missouri and the Technical University of Berlin\, where he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Peter is currently Vice President and Executive Dean in the College of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide. He writes about various aspects of European and Australian history\, with a particular interest in things German. \nProfessor Matthew Fitzpatrick specialises in international history\, in particular German and European history\, as well as the history of European imperialism\, German liberalism and nationalism. Matthew is also interested in the comparative history of empires\, and intellectual history and is a current holder of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at Flinders University. His most recent monographs are The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire and Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany\, 1871-1914. \nAlso available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \n$5 donation at the door. No bookings required.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-meeting-september-2024-an-indigenous-south-german-writers-on-colonial-south-australia/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:FoLA Meeting
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting August 2024 - Guide us by Thy hand to our fatherland: New perspectives on the Kavel migration to SA
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Meeting August 2024 – Guide us by Thy hand to our fatherland: New perspectives on the Kavel migration to SA\nAlso available via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \nSpeaker: Johannes Boxdörfer\n$5 donation at the door. No bookings required. \nThis presentation will focus on undocumented episodes in\nKavel´s search for a new home for his church during his\ntime in Posen\, Berlin\, Hamburg and London prior to his\ndeparture for SA. He will also discuss the disparity\nbetween Kavel’s vision for SA and the perspective of his\npatron\, George Fife Angas\, and the resolution of these\ntensions in the first years of settlement. \nA high-school teacher in Lindau\, Bavaria\, Johannes\nstudied German\, history and politics at Bamberg\nUniversity\, and in 2019 completed a doctoral thesis on the\nOld Lutheran migration to SA in the mid-19th century\,\npublished by Franz Steiner Verlag as Führ uns an der\nHand bis ins Vaterland! in 2020. A keen traveller\,\nJohannes wrote a paper on the migration story following\nhis first visit to Australia in 2004\, when he bought a copy\nof David Schubert’s Kavel’s People in Hahndorf and\nbecame acquainted with Lutheran Archives. \nHaving loved Australia on his first visit\, in 2011 he took\nover the exchange program his high school\, the Valentin-\nHeider-Gymnasium in Lindau\, was running with Reynella\nEast College and therefore came to South Australia in\n2012\, 2014\, 2016 and 2018 for a month. Making use of\nthese weeks to visit Lutheran Archives to research some\nstill-open questions on this migration story\, he decided to\nwrite a PhD thesis on it while working fulltime as a\nteacher.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/guide-us-by-thy-hand-to-our-fatherland-new-perspectives-on-the-kavel-migration-to-sa/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
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SUMMARY:FoLA Special Event - Book launch: Enlightened Aboriginal Futures and Sandhill Girl
DESCRIPTION:Friends of Lutheran Archives Special Event\nBook launch: Enlightened Aboriginal Futures and Sandhill Girl\nAvailable via YouTube LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \nPlease join us for the launch of Enlightened Aboriginal Futures by Professor Barry Judd\, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous)\, University of Melbourne\, and Associate Professor Katherine Ellinghaus\, School of Archaeology and History\, La Trobe University and the launch of Sandhill Girl by Lorna Wilson. \nDue to reaching the attendance capacity at the live event\, FoLA is making a live stream available. \nSandhill Girl (LWBJKE Books\, 2024)\, by Lorna Wilson\, tells the story of Lorna’s early life and the way it was changed by her interaction with Lutheran Missionary Pastor F.W. Albrecht. When Lorna was only 12 years old\, she left her home in Central Australia to be fostered and educated. Sandhill Girl is the story of that journey. \nEnlightened Aboriginal Futures examines the radical intervention of the German-Australian Lutheran missionary F. W. Albrecht in the education of Aboriginal children. Albrecht’s ideas about consent\, freedom of choice and personal autonomy were expressed in schemes designed to educate and empower Aboriginal people and efforts to find Aboriginal futures through education\, training and employment. \nThis book explores how Aboriginal people understood Albrecht’s work and the Enlightenment concepts on which it was based. In the context of an Anglo-Australian settler-colonialism that sought to systematically remove the freedom and autonomy of Indigenous people\, this study demonstrates how those who participated in the Albrecht scheme were able to reconstruct themselves in ways that fused their own Aboriginal culture and identity with the ideas and values imported from an enlightened Germany. \nEnlightened Aboriginal Futures will appeal to students and scholars of cultural history\, colonialism\, Lutheranism\, race and ethnicity and Indigenous studies. It will also be illuminating reading to policymakers searching for a deeper understanding of colonial interventions in Indigenous communities. \n 
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-special-event-book-launch-enlightened-aboriginal-futures-and-sandhill-girl/
LOCATION:South Australia
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting May 2024 - City Germans: Pubs\, Politicians and Pastors
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Public Meeting\, Thursday 23 May 2024\nSA History Festival\nCity Germans: Pubs\, Politicians and Pastors\nSpeaker: Ben Hollister\n$5 Donation \nHeld at Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide \nLIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \n\nThe German community in the City of Adelaide is the less known part of the German-South Australian story. Often from larger urban centres\, Adelaide Germans were often at odds with their rural Old Lutheran cousins\, socially\, politically\, and religiously. It was this diverse group of Germans that Missionary Teichelmann first preached to from the Reverend Stow’s church a month before the arrival of Pastor Kavel\, although the main migrant flow began years later in 1846. Names such as Hübbe\, Stakemann\, Pagenstecher\, Stüdemann\, Mähnke\, Firnhaber\, Conrad\, Heuzenroeder\, Frost and Kindermann can be found in the city\, some well known\, some less known. Ben Hollister explores their influence both within their own community\, the broader city and the colony. \nBen Hollister is a historical researcher in private practice and an archivist at Lutheran Archives. Both of his German migrant families lived and died in the City of Adelaide\, and researching their lives lead him to uncover the depth of German influence on the state capital. \nHe is slowly working on collecting data on every German speaker in Adelaide between 1836 and 1920\, preparing a short biography and documenting their location on a map\, available at https://wiki.historyhelper.com.au.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-meeting-may-2024-city-germans-pubs-politicians-and-pastors/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:FoLA Meeting
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting April 2024 - Vanagas: Preserving Lobethal’s History; Preserving a Lutheran Relic
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Public Meeting\, Thursday 18 April 2024\nVanagas: Preserving Lobethal’s History; Preserving a Lutheran Relic\nSpeaker: Andrew Zilm\n$5 Donation \nHeld at Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide \nLIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \n\nJonas Vanagas seemed like an interesting character. A New Australian\, he came to Lobethal after a long and\, at times\, threatening route from Lithuania via Denmark and Melbourne in 1949. He worked in the Onkaparinga Woollen Mill and in his spare time began a task\, with the help of others\, to preserve Lobethal’s history. He put together a self-published\, self-bound book of the town’s history and then assembled a collection of items that was the beginning of the Lobethal Archives and Historical Museum (LA&HM). References in articles say he was unassuming but my take from reading his letters was that he was a strong community-minded and a self-assured man. Maybe seen as a strange thing for a New Australian? \nAndrew Zilm\, a retired Secondary School teacher\, was raised in Lobethal. Drawn back to Lobethal for a 50 year football reunion in 2022\, he has been recruited to audit\, digitise and update the Lobethal Archives & Historical Museum’s display and collection. One cannot avoid learning about Vanagas when doing work in the small museum. Drawing from articles and newspapers from the LA&HM as well as the Lithuanian Archives in St Peters\, Jonas Vanagas will again take centre stage.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/vanagas-preserving-lobethals-history-preserving-a-lutheran-relic/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:FoLA Meeting
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting March 2024 - Indonesian Christian Fellowship of Adelaide (ICFA) and their bule friend
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Public Meeting\, Thursday 21 March 2024\nIndonesian Christian Fellowship of Adelaide (ICFA) and their bule friend\nSpeakers: Dasni Rau and Anthea Habel\n$5 Donation \nHeld at Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide \nLIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \n\nDasni Rau arrived in Adelaide in 1990 at the invitation of the LCA as an exchange church worker for one year and during this exchange she met Pastor Jim Pietsch at Whyalla. After a year in Indonesia\, she returned to Adelaide to marry Robert and they have two adult sons. Dasni has been a chaplain’s assistant at Flinders University with Pastor Mike Pietsch and worked for many years at Resthaven Marion. She is a founding member of ICFA and has held many positions over the years. She is a proud Batak woman and very keen for Bataknese (one of the largest indigenous groups in the country) living in Adelaide to learn and practice their traditions. Dasni is also a member at Trinity Pasadena. \nAnthea Habel is a member at Trinity Pasadena and of ICFA. She served as the cross-cultural deacon for many years\, giving her contact with international students from many countries. While working for forty years in the library at the University of Adelaide she made many more friendships with students and staff from many faith backgrounds. Her Bahasa Indonesian skills are barely good enough because everyone wants to practice their English. She travelled with a group of Indonesian ladies on a mission trip in 2019. \nCome and hear about the history of IFCA\, the long term friendships that endure between the ICFA and Trinity Pasadena members\, the joyous social events and then enjoy a sing along followed by something different for supper.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-meeting-march-indonesian-christian-fellowship-of-adelaide-icfa-and-their-bule-friend/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:FoLA Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240229T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240229T213000
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SUMMARY:FoLA Meeting Feb 2024 - "Church Stumps and Four Children’s Graves: Headington Hill\, Qld"
DESCRIPTION:FoLA Public Meeting\, Thursday 29 February 2024\nChurch Stumps and Four Children’s Graves: Headington Hill\, Qld\nSpeaker: Jennifer Stehn\n$5 Donation \nHeld at Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide \nLIVESTREAM on FoLA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@friendsoflutheranarchives9644/live \n\nAcross Australia\, there are remnants of small communities that no longer exist. People who pass by these sites today often don’t know of the community that once thrived there\, of the people\, their lives and why they disappeared. Everywhere\, the land is layered with multiple lives. Local historians uncover the stories of past communities and connect them to the bigger picture – helping at times to change the big picture. \nJennifer Stehn has been interested in history all her life\, reading it\, dissecting it\, writing about it – but never uncovering it\, until now. \nTwelve years ago\, the Stehn family included the site of the St Peter’s Lutheran Church\, Headington Hill\, Queensland\, as part of reunion celebrations. Jennifer wrote the family history\, The Fred and Alma Story\, that was launched the following year. Since then\, a small\, and ever-expanding group\, has adopted and cared for this acre of land\, surrounded by farmland looking west across the Darling Downs. All that remains of the past are the 47 wooden stumps of the church and four children’s graves. But now there is a vibrant Headington Hill Heritage Acre Association (Inc) whose members regularly visit for working bees\, picnics\, reunions – or just stop by for a cup of tank water and feel the presence of the past. Jennifer’s recent book\, One Acre of History\, tells the story of the people\, the pastors\, establishing and dismantling the church\, and the present-day association caring for the site. A complete set of minutes of the small congregation\, mostly in German\, was valuable source material for this story. The world the minutes meticulously document\, from 1900 to 1941\, is gone – the church\, the farming community\, the connections with the German culture. But the threads into lives before and after are there for us to pick up and to help make sense of who we are now. \nJennifer Stehn grew up on a farm at Headington Hill\, Queensland. She went to Adelaide to attend the University of Adelaide and Lutheran Teachers College. She had an extensive career in education\, first as a classroom teacher\, then as a deputy principal and principal. She worked for many years in curriculum development at state and national levels\, remaining always committed to the incorporation of social justice perspectives in teaching and learning.
URL:https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/event/fola-meeting-feb-2024-church-stumps-and-four-childrens-graves-headington-hill-qld/
LOCATION:Immanuel Lutheran Church\, North Adelaide\, 139 Archer St\, North Adelaide\, South Australia\, 5006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:FoLA Meeting
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