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President, Randall P. Donaldson Loyola University Maryland [email protected] Tel: (410) 617-2299

Membership, North America J. Gregory Redding Wabash College [email protected] Tel: (765) 361-6129

Membership, Europe Katja Hartmann Alexander von Humboldt Foundation [email protected] Tel: 011 49 (30) 857 326 77

American Studiesnewsletter

volume 33 no. 1

sgas.orgWalther Leisler Kiep is one of the most

independent and influential German post-

war politicians. He is also a successful

entrepreneur and longtime chairman of

Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German-

American friendship organization, which

he now serves as honorary chairman.

On March 8, Kiep, who had been at

Purdue in West Lafayette, IN, to promote

the release of his memoirs just recently

published by Purdue University Press,

visited the Max Kade Center at IUPUI.

Accompanying him were Dr. Beate

Lindemann, former Chair of the Atlantik-

Brücke, and Dr. William Gray, Associate

Professor of History at Purdue.

In his autobiography, Kiep speaks frankly

about a life at the center of power: as an

independent politician and treasurer of

the governing CDU party from 1970 to

1991, who did not shrink from conflict

with party leaders Helmut Kohl and Franz

Josef Strauss; as Minister of Finance in

Lower Saxony; as a longtime member

of the Volkswagen Supervisory Board

for 21 years; and as an ambassador for

German-American relations, and confidant

of several US presidents. As well as

presenting an inside history of the

relationship between Germany and the

United States, the book sheds particular

light on the struggle for German

unification and that country’s

complex relationship with the

Middle East.

“One of Germany’s most distinguished

statesmen, Dr. Walther Leisler Kiep

has come to personify the commitment

of postwar German leaders to close

German-American relations. It was a

distinct pleasure for me to collaborate

with Walther, and I deeply valued his wise

counsel. Through his ongoing passionate

and persistent contributions as a leading

foreign policy voice in Germany and as

longtime chairman of Atlantik-Bruecke,

Dr. Kiep has played an extraordinary role

in building trust and mutual understanding

between our two countries. His memoir is

an invaluable addition to our understanding

of international diplomacy.”

—Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman and Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission, former Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and presently Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University

“Kiep is an entertaining storyteller, and he shows a good sense of narrative pace. His memoirs are also of immediate relevance for scholars of international history. Over the past decade, historians have been eager to uncover the activities of ‘transnational,’ nongovernmental actors, as opposed to formal government-to-government relations. From this standpoint, Kiep’s wide-ranging activities as a diplomatic and financial troubleshooter are illuminating.”

-William Glenn Gray

Max Kade German-American Center Daniel Nützel, PhD Director 425 University Blvd. Suite 329 Indianapolis, IN 46202

president’s message By the time you receive this, you will have had time to peruse the latest Yearbook, which likely landed in your mailbox late in 2011. When you’ve finished enjoying the many fine articles and informative book reviews, take a closer look at the back matter, where the Bylaws of the Society always appear. There you will find significant changes. The Executive Committee worked diligently at its fall meeting to reframe the purpose and aims of the Society, to refine the committee structure and, most importantly, to make clear our commitment to the support and encouragement of scholarship on the life and culture of the German element in the Americas.

The Society’s commitment to scholarly endeavors is long-standing. That is evident in every volume of the Yearbook, and we celebrate it each year at our annual meeting and symposium. This year we will meet in Lawrence, Kansas, April 12–15, for our Thirty-Sixth Annual Symposium. The theme for the Symposium will be “Transforming America: Immigrants, Explorers, and Exiles.” Information on registration and accommodations can be found at <sgas.org> .

The Executive Committee is also taking a close look at the Society’s ability to fund scholarly projects. Since 1983 the officers of the Society have endeavored to husband the financial resources of the organization in such a way as to build an endowment large enough not only to underwrite the cost of the Yearbook where necessary but also to generate income to support scholarship in the field of German-American Studies. Through careful stewardship of dues income, additional contributions by members, and one very generous gift, the Society now has two funds. The Arndt Fund supports the publication of book-length monographs, and the Faust Fund underwrites smaller projects by helping to defray the necessary costs of doing research. Applications to either fund received by October 15 of any one year will be considered for the following year. Applicants will be notified in January, and awardees will be announced at the annual meeting. The full statement of the Society’s programs in support of scholarship can be found on our website.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in Lawrence in April. The details are online at <sgas.org>. Register through the link, pick a hotel in your price range and phone in your reservation.

Until then, alles Schöne!

-Randall DonaldsonPresident, SGAS

Bridge Builder Kiep, Walther Leisler. 2012. Bridge Builder: An Insider’s Account of Over 60 Years in Post-War Reconstruction, International Diplomacy, and German – American Relations. Purdue University Press. Almost no buildings of the nineteenth century have

survived on the campus of the University of Kansas.

Understandably, a small structure such as the Sudler

Annex adjacent to the Max Kade Center (Sudler House)

has not received much attention. Before it became

known as “the Shack,” the home of the student radio

station (KJHK), it served as the carriage house or garage

for the Mervin T. Sudler home. This native stone structure

is the oldest campus building and takes us back to

Lawrence’s pioneer days. The property on which the Max

Kade Annex lies was at the southwest corner of a forty-

acre land segment claimed

in 1857 by one of the most

famous men in Kansas

history, James H. Lane (1814

-66). With his rival Charles

Robinson, Lane made the

major political and military

decisions for the antislavery

cause in the late 1850s in

Kansas Territory. Having

acquired military experience

in the Mexican War, Lane

became recognized as the

leader of the Free State

Movement. He organized

forces of volunteers to

defend the voting places

against fraudulent ballots

by proslavery men from Missouri and was instrumental

in making the Jayhawk a symbol of the struggle against

the Missouri proslavery forces. He became one of the first

two United States senators from Kansas, and President

Lincoln valued his services in the Civil War struggle.

Documents signed by Lincoln confirm that the entire

property, including the structure that eventually became

the Max Kade Annex, belonged to Lane. According to

a document in the Topeka Land Office, dated February

4, 1862, and preserved today in the National Archives in

Washington, DC, “a stable has been built” on Senator

Lane’s property. A photograph from the 1890s provides

evidence that more than a hundred years ago the

structure still had the appearance of a stable. It also had

features of a barn.

After Lane’s death in 1866, his widow, Mary E. Lane, sold

ten acres, including Lane’s stable, to Wesley H. Duncan

(1814 -1902), one of the wealthiest men of Lawrence.

He had come to Lawrence in 1855 and established

a successful hardware

and dry-goods business.

During the 1870s, Duncan

built an imposing mansion

overlooking the Lawrence

landscape. Duncan’s new

building stood at the location

of today’s Audio Reader.

On September 1, 1925, Dr.

Mervin T. Sudler, formerly

dean of the university’s

medical school, purchased

the property (2.74 acres)

previously owned by James

H. Lane, Wesley H. Duncan,

Olin Templin and the National

Bank of Lawrence. The

annex probably underwent

considerable renovation

at that time. The original stones at its south end appear

to have been removed to make it possible to use the

building at the lower level as a garage. A continuous wall,

interrupted only by a turret above a gate, connected

the annex to the Sudler House. After Sudler’s death in

1956, the house and the grounds became university

property. Since 1992, the Max Kade Center for German-

American Studies (part of the Department of Germanic

News from the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies Sudler Annex Approved for the State Historic Register— Oldest Building on the KU Campus

UNiveRSity Of KANSASWilliam Keel

Sudler Annex adjacent to the Max Kade Center at the University of Kansas prior to renovation.

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Walther Leisler KiepWalther Leisler Kiep is Honorary Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke, the private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that aims to develop strong relationships between Germany and the United States. He was treasurer of the CDU party in Germany from 1970 to 1991, and he has held a number of other important posts in German politics and served on many company boards in Europe, the United States and Canada.

support



36th Annual Symposium Society for German-American Studies Lawrence, Kansas

Kyle Cline, a former Max Kade Fellow, was awarded a Robert Bosch

Foundation Fellowship to study renewable energy policy, technology,

trade and development in Germany. Kyle Cline has been general

manager for the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy in the

Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI since August

2008. Over the past five years he has participated in several programs

in Germany, including an internship with the Bureau of European Affairs

at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt. With assistance from a Max Kade

Foundation fellowship, awarded through the IUPUI Max Kade German-

American Center, Kyle conducted research for his graduate thesis on

green policy issues in Germany in 2007/2008. He was also a delegation

member for the American Council on Germany in 2009. Kyle will be

departing for Berlin this summer and begin his one-year fellowship working

initially with the German Federal Ministry of the Environment. He also

anticipates working with the Ecological Institute, a think tank, to further

his understanding of German and EU policies and green technologies.

The program is fully funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation, one of the

largest foundations in Germany.

Kyle ClineNews from the Max Kade Center at IUPUI

Claudia Grossmann

Oread Hotel, Lawrence, KansasApril 12-15, 2012

Thursday, April 12

2:00 pm - 5:00 pmSGAS Executive Committee Meeting

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Early Registration

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Gemütliches Beisammensein

Friday, April 138:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration

9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcoming Remarks:

Randall Donaldson, President, Society for German-American Studies

Marc Greenberg, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas

9:30 am - 11:00 am EXILE STUDIES I

Egon Schwarz, Washington University

“Zu jung und ungeschult für die Anden”

Guy Stern, Wayne State University

“One Thousand Children: The

Rescue Mission of the American

Jewish Committee in 1938”

Leonie Marx, University of Kansas

“Between Harlem and Hellas:

On Becoming American”

9:30 am - 11:00 am TURNERS I

Katja Hartmann, Berlin, Germany

“The Turner Movement’s

Philosophical Foundations: Fore-

fathers, Heroes and Stars”

Annette Hofmann, Pädagogische Hoch-

schule Ludwigsburg

“From Jahn to Lincoln: Transformation of

Turner Symbols in a New Cultural Setting

Gerald Gems, North Central College

“Downfall of the Turner

Movement in the United States”

9:30 am - 11:00 am ARCHITECTURE

La Vern Rippley, St. Olaf College

“The Restored Ratskeller in the Min-

neapolis State Capitol in Saint Paul”

Wiebke Krämer, Universität Bonn

“Gothic Revival Churches of Ger-

man Immigrants in the USA”

Matthew Kuhnert, Columbia University

“Turner Buildings in New York”

11:15 am - 12:45 pm EXILE STUDIES II

Stefan Manz, Aston University

“Transnational Organizations

and German Diasporic Identity

in the Americas, 1871-1914”

Christian Wilbers, College of William & Mary

“Between Third Reich and American

Way: Transatlantic Migration and the

Politics of Belonging, 1920-1945”

Eric J. Schmaltz, Northwestern

Oklahoma State University

“The Voices in Exile Have Returned:

Recent Scholarship on Ethnic German

Letters from the Soviet Union Published

on the Great Plains from 1917 to 1937”

11:15 am - 12:45 pm TURNERS II

Nora Probst, Universität Köln

“The New York Turn Verein:

Cultural Mobility and German-

American Identity in the Turner

Movement of the 19th Century”

Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen

“German Turnen in the United States:

A Transnationalist Movement”

Ernest A. Menze, Iona College

“Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: Some Sources

Anticipating and Informing his Views”

11:15 am - 12:45 pm GENERAL TOPICS

Cora Lee Kluge, Max Kade Institute, University

of Wisconsin-Madison

“Hitler’s Exiles in the German

Immigration Course:

Problems and Perspectives“

Antje Petty, Max Kade Institute, University of

Wisconsin-Madison

“Immigrants from Mecklenburg in Dane

County, Wisconsin: A

Collaborative Project to Bring German

Settlement History to K-12 Students”

Berit Jany, Ohio State University

“Coming Home:

The Bruderhof Community

Returns to its German Birthplace”

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EXILE STUDIES III

Esther Schneider Handschin,

Technical College Basel

“The Impact of Hermann Broch’s

Political Writing in the USA and Europe“

Marike Janzen, University of Kansas

“The World Literary Canon in Anna

Segher’s Post-Exile Oeuvre”

Hans Peter Baum, Würzburg

“Max Mohr (1891-1937), an Almost

Forgotten Dramatist and Novelist of the

1920s in Exile in Shanghai, 1934-1937”

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CHARLES SEALESFIELD

Wynfrid Kriegleder, Universität Wien

“Sealsfield—Strubberg—Karl May,

oder: Der deutsche Amerika-

Roman wird zum Ego-Trip“

Alexander Ritter, Universität Hamburg

“Die Nöte des Biographen mit Charles

Sealsfield: Über die ominöse Flucht von

1823, eine fragwürdige Predigt und

hektischen Aufbruch des Börsen-

spekulanten im panic year 1837”

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Workshop

Karyl Rommelfanger, Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Reading Deutsche Schrift

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm ALEXANDER v. HUMBOLDT

Ingo Schwarz, Berlin-Brandenburg

Akademie der Wissenschaften

“Alexander von Humboldt’s Inter-

est in the Supplies of Precious Metals

and their Impact on the Economy”

Sandra Rebok, University of Virginia

“A Transatlantic Dialogue with

the Natural World: Alexander von

Humboldt and Thomas Jefferson”

Detlev Doherr, Hochschule Offenburg

“Online Access to Alexander von

Humboldt’s Travels to the Americas”

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm GUSTAV KÖRNER

Steven Rowan, University of

Missouri St. Louis

“Gustav Körner’s Illinois Gesetzbuch of

1838: Making American

Law Speak German”

Jack LeChien, Gustave Koerner House

“Gustave Koerner, Friend of Lincoln”

Molly McKenzie, Gustave Koerner House

“Restoring the Koerner House

in Belleville”

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Workshop



6:15 pm Beer and Wine Reception

7:00 pm SGAS Awards Banquet

7:45 pmSGAS Outstanding Achievement Award

8:00 pmChoral Concert: Penzliner Männerchor from Brandenburg, Germany

Saturday, April 14

8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration

8:30 am - 10:00 am MORAVIANS

William Petig, Stanford University

“The Vanderbilts and the Moravians”

Rowena McClinton, University of Southern

Illinois-Edwardsville

“Early Nineteenth Century Cherokee

Conjuring: How Circuitous the Journey

in the Moravian Springplace Mission”

John Thomas Scott, Mercer University

“Johann Töltschig’s Georgia Sojourn”

8:30 am - 10:00 am LINGUISTICS I

Nina Berend and Ludwig Eichinger, Institut

für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

“Intra- und interdialektale Variation

am Beispiel von Aufnahmen aus

den amerikanischen Sprachinseln”

Daniel Nützel, Indiana University-Purdue

University Indianapolis

“Varietätenspektrum in

Several Midwestern Heritage

Speech Communities”

8:30 am – 10:00 am Workshop



10:15 am - 11:45 am EXILE STUDIES IV

Bärbel Such, Ohio University“What’s Happening in der Park

Avenue?: Alfred Gong Scholar-

ship in the 21st Century”

Michael Rice, Middle Tennessee State University

“Passing Landscapes: The Life and

Poetry of Hilde Domin in Exile”

Christoph Rosenthal, Freie Universität Berlin

“Stories of `Political Flotsam`: The

Reception of Lion Feuchtwanger’s

Novel Paris Gazette (1940) in

North American Newspapers”

10:15 am - 11:45 am LINGUISTICS II

Nicole Eller, Universität Passau,

and Alfred Wildfeuer, Universität Regensburg

“Heritage Speakers: Sprecherbio-

graphien und Sprachenkontakphän-

omene von Sprechern deutschböh-

mischer Auswanderervarietäten”

Hermann Scheuringer, Universität Regensburg

“Reconstruction Rather Than

Deconstruction: Form and Status

of German in Romania Compared

to the American Situation”

Gabriele Lunte, Washburn University

“Clothing, Cooking and Household

Items: The Unique Lexicon of Old

Colony Mennonites in Kansas”

10:15 am - 11:45 am Workshop



12:00 noon - 1:30 pmLuncheon followed by SGAS Business Meeting

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm GENERAL TOPICS

Greg Divers, St. Louis University

“Brinkmann’s Americana, Part II: From

Die Sammlung Brinkmann-Rygulla im

deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach

to Brinkmann’s Westwärts 1 & 2”

Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science

and Technology

“Search for Fred E. Frank:

An Exercise in Historiography”

Antje Lechleiter, Badische Zeitung, Freiburg

“Der Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich

Hecker und Adolph Blankenhorn”

1:45 pm - 3:15 pmDIGITAL RESEARCH AT THE MAX KADE CENTER

Chris Johnson, University of Kansas

“The Linguistic Atlas of

Kansas German Dialects”

William Keel, University of Kansas

“Foreign Language Units of

Kansas: A Resource for German

Dialectology in Kansas”

Adan Lau & Frank Baron, University of Kansas

“The Humboldt Digital Library”

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm POETRY

Ingeborg Carsten-Miller, Silver Spring, Maryland

“An Immigrant’s Poetry in

German and English”

Norbert Krapf, Indianapolis “The Widening Family Circle”

Greg Redding, Wabash College

“Norbert Krapf’s

Widening Familienkreis”

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CIVIL WAR ERA IN KANSAS

Todd Mildfelt, Richmond, Kansas

“Charles Leonhardt, Jim Lane

and the First Jayhawkers”

Mark A. Lause, University of Cincinnati

“Race and Radicalism

in the Union Army”

Charles Reitz, Kansas City, Missouri

“German, Black and Indian:

Intercultural Union Troops in the

Civil War in the West—Lessons for

Multicultural Educators Today”

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm DOCUMENTARY FILM “The World War I Internment Camp

in Hot Springs, North Carolina”

Sunday, April 15 Optional Tour to National World War I Museum

Languages and Literatures) has occupied the renovated Sudler House. On August 13, 2011, the Kansas Historic Sites

Board approved the annex for the state historic register. Generous donations from the New York Turn Verein 1850

Foundation and the Max Kade Foundation of New York are making it possible to renovate and maintain the annex in

its historic form. It will provide an opportunity to preserve the legacy associated with the building, including archival

materials of historical significance relating to the Turners in New York, Lawrence and elsewhere in the United States.

Dedication of the renovated facility is scheduled for April 12, 2012, in conjunction with the SGAS Symposium at the

University of Kansas.

Max Kade Center Continued

The website of the DAUSA has been redesigned and contains, among many other updates, the following valuable additions, some both in German and English:

• A scanned original copy of Bernhard Wechsler’s lecture The Emigrants (only in German: Bernhard Wechsler: Die Auswanderer. Oldenburg: Stalling 1846). This represents the pre-revolutionary voice of Oldenburg’s highest ranking rabbi and can be found under Quelleneditionen/Primary Sources Editions;

• The letters of a farmer’s son from Rieste near Bramsche (Osnabrück, Kingdom of Hanover) (only in German: Antonius Holtmann, Hg.: Ferner thue ich euch zu wissen. Die Briefe des Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste aus Amerika 1834-1876). Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste, with compatriots from Osnabrück, settled in White Creek near Columbus, IN (under Veröffentlichungen/Publications);

• The letters of Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste are now expanded using the official records (1853-1905) of his St. John`s Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation at White Creek, IN, under Quelleneditionen/Primary Sources Editions. Under Veröffentlichungen/Publications you will also find the 2006 dissertation of Harro Eichhorn: Stellenwert und Funktion von Gemeinde, Pastor und Lehrer in Kirchengemeinden der Missouri Synode des 19. Jahrhunderts: Auf den Alltagsspuren deutscher Auswanderer in

Kirchenbüchern, Protokollbüchern und religiösen Periodika;

• Antonius Holtmann’s article No Masterpiece or: How ‘Liwwät Böke’ Was Adorned with Borrowed Plumes;

• Holtmann’s Basic Reliable Information About Early Emigration from the Osnabrück Area (Landdrostei) to the USA (only in German: Einiges Grundlegende und Verlässliche zur frühen Auswanderung aus der Landdrostei Osnabrück des Königreichs Hannover in die USA im 19. Jahrhundert), which offers a succinct introduction to typical emigration from the German Northwest (under Veröffentlichungen/Publications);

• Holtmann’s Emigration and Resettlement Policy for the Kingdom of Hanover 1832-1866 (“We’ve got to send him to America!”), as well as Karl-Heinz Steinbruch’s The Practice of Kicking out Prisoners, the Sentenced and Homeless from Mecklenburg Across the Ocean and Gerd Behrens’ Emigration of Prisoners and Other Undesirables from the Rhineland, all under Veröffentlichungen/Publications.

These are only some of the changes made recently to our website.

DAUSA also offers maps for sale and researches and offers copies

(DIN A 3) of ship passenger lists (The National Archives Microfilm

Publications, 1820-1897).

www.dausa.de By Gerd Behrens, Harro Eichhorn, Antonius Holtmann

The Redesigned Website of the Research Center of German Emigration to the USA (DAUSA) at the Institute for Social Research at the Universität Oldenburg