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Newsletter Summer 2006 Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter VOLUME 15 NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2006 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON, 901 UNIVERSITY BAY DR., MADISON, WI 53705 South American Low German: WHAT'S INSIDE: Mennonites in Bolivia Director’s Corner. Page 2 By Kimberly Miller, MKI Editorial Assistant Friends Profile: University of A tourist wandering through the Los Pozos market in Santa Cruz, Minnesota Professor Emeritus Bolivia, might walk down the street 6 de agosto (6th of August) and be Gerhard Weiss. surprised to discover crowds of tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed white men Page 3 in long-sleeved shirts and overalls, with a baseball cap or sombrero, Pages from and women in dark flowered, pleated dresses, nylons and fancy black the Past: sandals, embroidered headscarves, and straw hats. Over one business, a A German- American sign advertises, “Gute Bedienung für die Mennoniten,” and another is meets with named “Mennoniten-Büro.” Henry Long- These are the Old Col- fellow. ony Mennonites, at home Part II. in Bolivia. Over 45,000 Page 6 of them live in Bolivia’s Prof. Macha examines tropical plains, with at immigrants’ language. least 45 colonies already Page 7 in existence and new ones Book Review: Home Alone in forming. These Men- America: Letters Exchanged nonites seek to separate by Collectiona Young German in the themselves from the world U.S.Feature: and His Family in Berlin around them. In order to fromLet's 1946 go toto 1955. maintain this separation, Horses wait outside the Valle Esperanza the World's Page 8 Fair! the Colony Mennonites Campo 202 store. CalendarPage of Events10 and limit their use of technol- News. ogy. Most colonies do not allow telephones or radios, and most require Page 10 steel wheels on tractors. A rubber-tired tractor can travel much further Temperance and lynchings in and faster, making it easier to get to town. The idea of using a tractor Wisconsin in the 1850s. as transportation might not occur to a car owner, but consider this: In Page 12 a colony where rubber tires are allowed, some young men modify the gears on a tractor so that it can travel 70 kilometers an hour. Report on 2006 MKI Annual Meeting and Dinner. Separation from the world is not achieved only through limiting Page 15 technology, however. There is a linguistic barrier: Among themselves the Colony Mennonites speak a variety of Low German, and in schools they learn High German as their language of literacy. Mennonite men Continued on page 4 2 3 Director’s Corner Looking back, looking forward By Cora Lee Kluge, MKI Director Greetings, Friends and Readers! poster, brochure, and Web site. We can point to high We are happy to report about a flurry of success- demand for the materials as well as positive feedback ful activity toward the end of the spring semester as signs of its success. Next, the three-year Ameri- 2006. Jürgen Macha’s March lecture (“Between can Languages project, funded by the Institute of the Language Varieties: Writing Behavior of Ger- Museum and Library Services (IMLS), has finished man Emigrants to the U.S.”) was well attended and digitization of the German dialectal materials and received (see page 7), as was Don Yoder’s in April will complete digitization of the American English (“Folklife in America: A Personal View”). The recordings for the Dictionary of American Regional traveling lecture series on “Wisconsin Englishes,” English by November. These materials will keep a multimedia event by Erica Benson, Joan Hall, MKI’s linguists busy for years to come, as well as at- Greg Iverson, Jennifer Delahanty, Tom Purnell, tracting researchers from elsewhere. And finally, our and Joe Salmons, was presented in Milwaukee, monograph series is progressing, with the appear- Eau Claire, and Madison in March and April. Antje ance this summer of Wisconsin German Land and Petty (MKI) and Daniela Pruß (Goethe Institute of Life (edited by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Chicago) organized and led a late-April teachers Robert Ostergren), and the forthcoming annotated workshop on incorporating past and present im- anthology entitled Other Witnesses: An Anthology migrant experiences in the German classroom. And of Literature of the German Americans, 1850–1914 finally, the annual meeting of the Friends of the (edited by Cora Lee Kluge). MKI, held in May in West Bend, was a resounding Some of our graduate assistants are finishing their success (see page 15). degrees or moving on to other opportunities. This Several MKI projects were completed last year means we say farewell to some who have become or are moving toward completion. First is the familiar faces around the MKI and our partner insti- “How German Is American?” project, including the tute, the Center for the Study of Upper Midwest Cul- tures (CSUMC): Zachary Schwartz (our Sound Lab’s “wild digitizer”), Jocelyne Bodden (who worked with the CSUMC Newsletter and other projects), Mike Olson (who worked with technical aspects of The Newsletter of the Friends of the Max Kade Institute the IMLS American Languages project), and Stacey for German-American Studies is published quarterly at Erdman (who contributed to the database and digiti- the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Newsletter zation side of the American Languages project). We is edited and produced by Kevin Kurdylo with the wish all of them the best, and they will be missed! assistance of the Newsletter Committee of the Board Finally, we bid farewell to Mark Louden, the MKI of Directors and is printed by Great Graphics, Inc. The Newsletter appears quarterly in March, June, September, Director and then Co-director for the last four years, and December. Submissions are invited and should be who is now “rotating out,” as they say. As he is nei- sent directly to: ther retiring nor leaving the University of Wisconsin, Max Kade Institute however, we will certainly continue to profit from his for German-American Studies advice and even assistance for years to come. Our 901 University Bay Drive Madison, WI 53705 hearty thanks to him for his efforts in behalf of the Phone: (608) 262-7546 Fax: (608) 265-4640 MKI throughout his tenure. He has brought projects, Any submissions via e-mail may be directed to energy, and success to the Keystone House; and we [email protected] have profited greatly from his contributions. We wish Visit the Max Kade Institute on the for him demanding projects, hard work, and much World Wide Web at: happiness! <http://mki.wisc.edu>. Cora Lee 2 3 Friends Profile Discussion with Professor Emeritus Gerhard Weiss of the University of Minnesota Department of German Interviewed by Cora Lee Kluge, MKI Director C.L.K.: I would like to start by asking you, who lest I forget, there were the German plays under have long been a Minnesotan, about your relation- the leadership of Sieghardt Riegel! ship with German studies and German-American C.L.K.: The folks you named are the UW Ger- studies in Madison. If I remember correctly, you man Department giants of former years—and were celebrating a hearing their special anniversary names takes me when you were on way back. Can campus in April to you believe that give a lecture. I myself knew G.W.: You are ab- six of the ten you solutely right: Madi- mentioned? son, the UW, the G.W.: But German Department, there is more. I and the Max Kade received my Ph.D. Institute are close to degree in 1956— my heart. I came to this explains the Madison in the fall anniversary you of 1952 as a graduate mentioned at student in German the outset—and and Comparative Literature. I Janet and Gerhard Weiss. became a member of the was a teaching assistant under Photo by Charles James. German Department at the the guidance of John Workman, University of Minnesota. I sat in the seminars of Heinrich Henel, Walter Nau- I continued to cherish my contacts with Madi- mann, Walter Gausewitz, Werner Vordtriede, Martin son—through workshops, symposia, guest lec- Joos, and Roe-Merrill Heffner. I was good friends tures, and library resources. Janet and I have often with the departmental secretary Thekla Nimmow (a been back. So you see, my ties to the UW have most formidable lady). Above all, I met my future remained strong. wife, Library Science graduate student Janet Smith. C.L.K.: . and your relationship with the Max I also frequently visited the “father” of the Ger- Kade Institute? man Department, A. R. Hohlfeld (who was then G.W.: The Institute was established long after I ninety years old and blind), and assisted him with had left. However, I had been in contact with Jür- the completion of his last article on “die Mütter” in gen Eichhoff, who was involved with its found- Goethe’s Faust. That was quite an experience! And, Continued on page 5 The Friends of the Max Kade Institute Board of Directors Hans Werner Bernet, Monroe Bob Luening (Treasurer), Madison Charles James (Secretary), Madison Peter Monkmeyer, Madison Cora Lee Kluge (ex officio), Madison Antje Petty (ex officio), Madison Ed Langer (President), Hales Corners Greg Smith, Beaver Dam Tom Lidtke, West Bend JoAnn Tiedemann, Madison Mark Louden (ex officio), Milwaukee Ted E. Wedemeyer, Milwaukee Fran Luebke (Vice President), Brookfield Don Zamzow, Wausau 4 5 Mennonites continued from page 1 crops, milk, and sesame, are not affected as strongly by drought, but there have been price drops. As hard who frequently travel to town for business purposes, times have come, migration has largely ceased from or who need to work closely with Bolivians, will all countries except the most conservative colonies learn some Spanish or even become fluent, but many, in Paraguay.
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