German settlers in South Australia:

miscellaneous papers 1776-1964

MSS 994.2 G3888

BOX D Folder J and Folder L

BOX D Folder J

Corrected typescript of ‘The early secular German language press in South Australia’ Part II Chapters VI-VIII / L.A. Triebel.

Draft typescript of the second part of L.A. Triebel’s work on the German language press in South Australia 1848-1916. 260 p.

(In 1958-1959 L.A. Triebel was engaged by the University of Adelaide under a University Research grant to write material on Germans in the Barossa Valley, completing his research in approximately August 1962 - information supplied by Professor Brian Coghlan. L.A. Triebel was later appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Tasmania, retiring in 1956. He died in 1985)

Note: never published. The final version is available as: Pt. V. ‘The early secular German-language press in South Australia (1848-1916) together with an estimate of the degree of assimilation of South-Australian Germans and the influence and meaning of Deutschtum; A survey of the evolution of the German migrant press and an analysis of its contents’ of Triebel’s manuscript compilation “Of The early South-Australian German colonists with special reference to the Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills: an investigation based on source documents”

(Special Collections MSS 994.2 T825. A photocopy is available for consultation at Rare Books
994.2 T825 1969)

See Box D Folder L for Chapters I-V

BOX D Folder L

Corrected typescript of ‘The early secular German language press in South Australia’ Part I Chapters I-V / L.A. Triebel, with notes on sources and associated materials.

1. Ms reference to ‘Bibliography of migrant Press in Australia 1850- 1961’ compiled by Miriam? Bilson in Oct. 1961 [Bilson was at the ANU, probably in the Demography Department]

2. Ms notes etc ‘Adelaider Post’ Nr 48 – 5. Jhg [an independent Australian weekly in combination with ‘Woche in Australien’ Tues. Nov. 28, 1961] Notes: Colin Thiele, Otto Schlunke, novelists

3. Typed list ‘SA German newspapers, incl. Church periodicals in Public Library’ (1 p.)

4. Ms notes on various German newspapers – State Library holdings (1 p.)

5. Typed list - same as item 3 above with a note about microfilm of the Post

6. Typescript: ‘Interests of South Australian German language Press in the19th century’ / Derek Van Abbe (8 p.)
See also reprint at Item 13

7. Ms note from ‘Australischer Volks-Kalender für das Jahr 1915 Adelaide 1/9 d. (2 p.) in German (= transcript of advertisement for ‘Australische Zeitung’)

[Items 8-12 represent the corrected typescript of Triebel’s ‘The early secular German language press in South Australia’ Part I: Chapters I-V / L.A. Triebel, with notes on sources and associated materials. See Box D Folder J for Part II: Chapters VI-VIII]

8. Corrected typescript: ‘The early secular German-language press of South Australia I’ (15 p.) (Chapter 1)

9. Corrected typescript: Chapter II ([40] p.)

10. Corrected typescript: Ch. III ([38] p.)

11. Ch. IV ([51] p.)

12. Ch. V. ([33] p.)

13. Reprint: ‘The interests of the South Australian German-Language Press in the nineteenth century’ / Derek Van Abbe University of Adelaide (from ‘Historical Studies’ November 1958
See also typescript Item 6