German settlers in South Australia:

miscellaneous papers 1776-1964

MSS 994.2 G3888

BOX D Folder M

‘Addendum’ and ‘Gerstaecker’

L.A. Triebel’s talks and articles on Gerstaeker. Also Roneoed student exercises headed ‘University of Adelaide Department of German’ comprised of extracts from Gerstaecker’s descriptions of various SA German places and people, with language exercises testing comprehension, grammar and translation skills. L.A. Triebel presumably used these in teaching language classes at the University of Adelaide.

1. Typed, Roneoed text: Student exercise: translation or comprehension piece re a Großmutter (= old lady) who lived on a German farm at Angas Park.
See also Item 6.

2. Ms of a talk by Triebel, Research Fellow, to S.A. Fellowship about Gerstaecker’s account of early South Australia (2 p.)

3. ‘German Globetrotter’s Adventures in South Australia in 1851’ / L.A. Triebel (= summary of Gerstaecker’s adventures). With a note in pencil to ‘Dear Miss Bridges’.

4. Typescript: ‘German Globetrotter’s Adventures in SA in 1851’ / L.A. Triebel (2 p.)

5. Typed extracts from Chapter 17 of Gerstaecker’s novel The Two Convicts, with introduction and ms. comments by L.A. Triebel (5 p.)

6. Typed Roneoed student comprehension exercises to accompany Item 1.

7. Roneoed Department of German student exercise & text from Gerstaecker - about visiting Tanunda. Also a page headed ‘Tanunda’ with handwritten additions, headed ‘Department of German’

8. ‘Road to Tanunda. German Department’ = Roneoed text from Gerstaecker and page of student exercises = ‘Eines tat mir wieder leid, auch in Australien: die Uneinigkeit meiner Landsleute’ [= One thing again made me sad, in Australia too: the disunity of my countrymen] On German disunity and Carl Linger’s ‘Song of Australia’

9. Roneoed Department of German student exercise & text from Gerstaecker: ‘Adelaide streets and lighting’.

10. Ms transcriptions and notes from Lodewyckx p. 51–52: Die Deutschen in Australien re Gerstaecker.

11. Roneoed Department of German student exercise & text from Gerstaecker: ‘On religion in Tanunda’.

12. Roneoed Department of German student exercise & text from Gerstaecker: ‘Road to Tanunda’.