News from the Max Kade Center for Bridge Builder University of Kansas volume 33 no. 1 German-American Studies William Keel Kiep, Walther Leisler. 2012. Bridge Builder: An Insider’s Account Sudler Annex Approved for the State Historic Register— Max Kade German-American Center society for Oldest Building on the KU Campus of Over 60 Years in Post-War Reconstruction, International Daniel Nützel, PhD Diplomacy, and German – American Relations. Director 425 University Blvd. Suite 329 German- Almost no buildings of the nineteenth century have 4, 1862, and preserved today in the National Archives in Purdue University Press. survived on the campus of the University of Kansas. Washington, DC, “a stable has been built” on Senator Indianapolis, IN 46202 Understandably, a small structure such as the Sudler Lane’s property. A photograph from the 1890s provides merican Studies Walther Leisler Kiep is one of the most light on the struggle for German foreign policy voice in Germany and as A Annex adjacent to the Max Kade Center (Sudler House) evidence that more than a hundred years ago the independent and influential German post- unification and that country’slongtime chairman of Atlantik-Bruecke, has not received much attention. Before it became structure still had the appearance of a stable. It also had newsletter sgas.org war politicians. He is also a successful complex relationship with the Dr. Kiep has played an extraordinary role known as “the Shack,” the home of the student radio features of a barn. entrepreneur and longtime chairman of in building trust and mutual understanding station (KJHK), it served as the carriage house or garage Atlantik-Brücke, the influential German- between our two countries. His memoir is After Lane’s death in 1866, his widow, Mary E. Lane, sold for the Mervin T. Sudler home. This native stone structure American friendship organization, which an invaluable addition to our understanding ten acres, including Lane’s stable, to Wesley H. Duncan is the oldest campus building and takes us back to he now serves as honorary chairman. of international diplomacy.” (1814 -1902), one of the wealthiest men of Lawrence. president’s message Lawrence’s pioneer days. The property on which the Max —Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman He had come to Lawrence in 1855 and established By the time you receive this, you will have had time to peruse the latest Yearbook, which likely landed in your On March 8, Kiep, who had been at Kade Annex lies was at the southwest corner of a forty- and Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission, a successful hardware mailbox late in 2011. When you’ve finished enjoying the many fine articles and informative book reviews, take Purdue in West Lafayette, IN, to promote acre land segment claimed former Director of the Woodrow Wilson and dry-goods business. a closer look at the back matter, where the Bylaws of the Society always appear. There you will find significant the release of his memoirs just recently International Center for Scholars, in 1857 by one of the most During the 1870s, Duncan changes. The Executive Committee worked diligently at its fall meeting to reframe the purpose and aims of the published by Purdue University Press, and presently Director of the Center famous men in Kansas on Congress at Indiana University built an imposing mansion Society, to refine the committee structure and, most importantly, to make clear our commitment to the support and visited the Max Kade Center at IUPUI. history, James H. Lane (1814 overlooking the Lawrence encouragement of scholarship on the life and culture of the German element in the Americas. Accompanying him were Dr. Beate -66). With his rival Charles landscape. Duncan’s new Lindemann, former Chair of the Atlantik- Robinson, Lane made the The Society’s commitment to scholarly endeavors is long-standing. That is evident in every volume of the Yearbook, building stood at the location and we celebrate it each year at our annual meeting and symposium. This year we will meet in Lawrence, Kansas, Brücke, and Dr. William Gray, Associate “Kiep is an entertaining major political and military contacts of today’s Audio Reader. April 12–15, for our Thirty-Sixth Annual Symposium. The theme for the Symposium will be “Transforming America: Professor of History at Purdue. storyteller, and he shows a good decisions for the antislavery On September 1, 1925, Dr. Immigrants, Explorers, and Exiles.” Information on registration and accommodations can be found at
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36th Annual Symposium Oread Hotel, Lawrence, Kansas 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm GUSTAV KÖRNER “Reconstruction Rather Than Hermann Scheuringer, Deconstruction: Form and Status Society for German-American Studies Steven Rowan, “Gustav Körner’s Illinois Gesetzbuch of April 12-15, 2012 Universität Regensburg of German in Romania Compared Max Kade Center Continued Lawrence, Kansas University of 1838: Making American to the American Situation” Languages and Literatures) has occupied the renovated Sudler House. On August 13, 2011, the Kansas Historic Sites Missouri St. Louis Law Speak German” “Clothing, Cooking and Household yle line Board approved the annex for the state historic register. Generous donations from the New York Turn Verein 1850 Jack LeChien, Gabriele Lunte, K C 11:15 am - 12:45 pm TURNERS II “Gustave Koerner, Friend of Lincoln” Items: The Unique Lexicon of Old Thursday, April 12 Gustave Koerner House Washburn University Foundation and the Max Kade Foundation of New York are making it possible to renovate and maintain the annex in “The New York Turn Verein: Colony Mennonites in Kansas” SGAS Executive Molly McKenzie, “Restoring the Koerner House its historic form. It will provide an opportunity to preserve the legacy associated with the building, including archival 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Nora Probst, Cultural Mobility and German- Committee Meeting Gustave Koerner House in Belleville” 10:15 am - 11:45 am Workshop News from the Max Kade Center at IUPUI Universität Köln American Identity in the Turner materials of historical significance relating to the Turners in New York, Lawrence and elsewhere in the United States. 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Early Registration 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Workshop Movement of the 19th Century” Karyl Rommelfanger, Claudia Grossmann Dedication of the renovated facility is scheduled for April 12, 2012, in conjunction with the SGAS Symposium at the Reading Deutsche Schrift 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Gemütliches Beisammensein Gertrud Pfister, “German Turnen in the United States: Karyl Rommelfanger, Reading Deutsche Schrift Manitowoc, Wisconsin University of Kansas. University of Copenhagen A Transnationalist Movement” Manitowoc, Wisconsin Friday, April 13 Luncheon followed by Kyle Cline, a former Max Kade Fellow, was awarded a Robert Bosch 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Ernest A. Menze, “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: Some Sources 6:15 pm Beer and Wine Reception SGAS Business Meeting Iona College Anticipating and Informing his Views” Foundation Fellowship to study renewable energy policy, technology, 9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcoming Remarks: 7:00 pm SGAS Awards Banquet 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm GENERAL TOPICS The Redesigned Website of the Research Center of 11:15 am - 12:45 pm GENERAL TOPICS SGAS Outstanding trade and development in Germany. Kyle Cline has been general Randall Donaldson, President, 7:45 pm “Brinkmann’s Americana, Part II: From Society for German- Cora Lee Kluge, Max “Hitler’s Exiles in the German Achievement Award Greg Divers, Die Sammlung Brinkmann-Rygulla im manager for the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy in the German Emigration to the USA (DAUSA) at the Institute for American Studies Kade Institute, University Immigration Course: Choral Concert: Penzliner St. Louis University deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach of Wisconsin-Madison Problems and Perspectives“ Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI since August Marc Greenberg, Associate 8:00 pm Männerchor from to Brinkmann’s Westwärts 1 & 2” Social Research at the Universität Oldenburg Dean, College of Liberal Arts & “Immigrants from Mecklenburg in Dane Brandenburg, Germany Petra DeWitt, Missouri Antje Petty, Max Kade “Search for Fred E. Frank: 2008. Over the past five years he has participated in several programs Sciences, University of Kansas County, Wisconsin: A University of Science Institute, University of Saturday, April 14 An Exercise in Historiography” www.dausa.de By Gerd Behrens, Harro Eichhorn, Antonius Holtmann Collaborative Project to Bring German and Technology in Germany, including an internship with the Bureau of European Affairs 9:30 am - 11:00 am EXILE STUDIES I Wisconsin-Madison Settlement History to K-12 Students” 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Antje Lechleiter, “Der Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich The website of the DAUSA has been redesigned and Kirchenbüchern, Protokollbüchern und religiösen Egon Schwarz, at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt. With assistance from a Max Kade “Zu jung und ungeschult für die Anden” “Coming Home: 8:30 am - 10:00 am MORAVIANS Badische Zeitung, Freiburg Hecker und Adolph Blankenhorn” contains, among many other updates, the following Periodika; Washington University Berit Jany, The Bruderhof Community Foundation fellowship, awarded through the IUPUI Max Kade German- Ohio State University William Petig, DIGITAL RESEARCH AT THE valuable additions, some both in German and English: “One Thousand Children: The Returns to its German Birthplace” “The Vanderbilts and the Moravians” Guy Stern, Wayne Stanford University 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm • Antonius Holtmann’s article No Masterpiece or: How Rescue Mission of the American MAX KADE CENTER American Center, Kyle conducted research for his graduate thesis on State University 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EXILE STUDIES III Jewish Committee in 1938” Rowena McClinton, “Early Nineteenth Century Cherokee Chris Johnson, “The Linguistic Atlas of • A scanned original copy of Bernhard Wechsler’s ‘Liwwät Böke’ Was Adorned with Borrowed Plumes; Esther Schneider University of Southern Conjuring: How Circuitous the Journey green policy issues in Germany in 2007/2008. He was also a delegation Leonie Marx, “Between Harlem and Hellas: “The Impact of Hermann Broch’s University of Kansas Kansas German Dialects” lecture The Emigrants (only in German: Bernhard Handschin, Illinois-Edwardsville in the Moravian Springplace Mission” • Holtmann’s Basic Reliable Information About Early University of Kansas On Becoming American” Political Writing in the USA and Europe“ “Foreign Language Units of member for the American Council on Germany in 2009. Kyle will be Wechsler: Die Auswanderer. Oldenburg: Stalling Technical College Basel William Keel, John Thomas Scott, Kansas: A Resource for German Emigration from the Osnabrück Area (Landdrostei) 9:30 am - 11:00 am TURNERS I “Johann Töltschig’s Georgia Sojourn” University of Kansas departing for Berlin this summer and begin his one-year fellowship working 1846). This represents the pre-revolutionary voice of Marike Janzen, “The World Literary Canon in Anna Mercer University Dialectology in Kansas” to the USA (only in German: Einiges Grundlegende “The Turner Movement’s University of Kansas Segher’s Post-Exile Oeuvre” Oldenburg’s highest ranking rabbi and can be found Katja Hartmann, 8:30 am - 10:00 am LINGUISTICS I Adan Lau & Frank Baron, initially with the German Federal Ministry of the Environment. He also Philosophical Foundations: Fore- “The Humboldt Digital Library” und Verlässliche zur frühen Auswanderung aus der Berlin, Germany “Max Mohr (1891-1937), an Almost under Quelleneditionen/Primary Sources Editions; fathers, Heroes and Stars” Hans Peter Baum, Nina Berend and Ludwig University of Kansas Forgotten Dramatist and Novelist of the “Intra- und interdialektale Variation anticipates working with the Ecological Institute, a think tank, to further Landdrostei Osnabrück des Königreichs Hannover in Würzburg Eichinger, Institut 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm POETRY Annette Hofmann, 1920s in Exile in Shanghai, 1934-1937” am Beispiel von Aufnahmen aus • The letters of a farmer’s son from Rieste near die USA im 19. Jahrhundert), which offers a succinct “From Jahn to Lincoln: Transformation of für Deutsche Sprache, his understanding of German and EU policies and green technologies. Pädagogische Hoch- den amerikanischen Sprachinseln” Ingeborg Carsten-Miller, “An Immigrant’s Poetry in Turner Symbols in a New Cultural Setting 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CHARLES SEALESFIELD Mannheim Bramsche (Osnabrück, Kingdom of Hanover) (only introduction to typical emigration from the German schule Ludwigsburg Silver Spring, Maryland German and English” The program is fully funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation, one of the “Sealsfield—Strubberg—Karl May, Daniel Nützel, Indiana “Varietätenspektrum in in German: Antonius Holtmann, Hg.: Ferner thue ich Northwest (under Veröffentlichungen/Publications); Gerald Gems, “Downfall of the Turner Wynfrid Kriegleder, Norbert Krapf, Indianapolis “The Widening Family Circle” oder: Der deutsche Amerika- University-Purdue Several Midwestern Heritage largest foundations in Germany. euch zu wissen. Die Briefe des Johann Heinrich zur North Central College Movement in the United States” Universität Wien Roman wird zum Ego-Trip“ Greg Redding, “Norbert Krapf’s Emigration and Resettlement Policy University Indianapolis Speech Communities” Oeveste aus Amerika 1834-1876). Johann Heinrich • Holtmann’s 9:30 am - 11:00 am ARCHITECTURE Wabash College Widening Familienkreis” “Die Nöte des Biographen mit Charles for the Kingdom of Hanover 1832-1866 (“We’ve got 8:30 am – 10:00 am Workshop zur Oeveste, with compatriots from Osnabrück, La Vern Rippley, “The Restored Ratskeller in the Min- Sealsfield: Über die ominöse Flucht von 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CIVIL WAR ERA IN KANSAS to send him to America!”) Alexander Ritter, Karyl Rommelfanger, settled in White Creek near Columbus, IN (under , as well as Karl-Heinz St. Olaf College neapolis State Capitol in Saint Paul” 1823, eine fragwürdige Predigt und Reading Deutsche Schrift “Charles Leonhardt, Jim Lane Universität Hamburg Manitowoc, Wisconsin Todd Mildfelt, Steinbruch’s The Practice of Kicking out Prisoners, Wiebke Krämer, “Gothic Revival Churches of Ger- hektischen Aufbruch des Börsen- Richmond, Kansas and the First Jayhawkers” Veröffentlichungen/Publications); the Sentenced and Homeless from Mecklenburg Universität Bonn man Immigrants in the USA” spekulanten im panic year 1837” 10:15 am - 11:45 am EXILE STUDIES IV Walther Leisler Kiep Mark A. Lause, “Race and Radicalism “What’s Happening in der Park Matthew Kuhnert, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Workshop University of Cincinnati in the Union Army” • The letters of Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste are now Across the Ocean and Gerd Behrens’ Emigration of “Turner Buildings in New York” Bärbel Such, Ohio University Avenue?: Alfred Gong Scholar- Walther Leisler Kiep is Honorary Chairman of Atlantik- Columbia University Karyl Rommelfanger, “German, Black and Indian: expanded using the official records (1853-1905) of his Prisoners and Other Undesirables from the Rhineland, Reading Deutsche Schrift ship in the 21st Century” 11:15 am - 12:45 pm EXILE STUDIES II Manitowoc, Wisconsin Charles Reitz, Intercultural Union Troops in the Brücke, the private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization St. John`s Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation all under Veröffentlichungen/Publications. “Passing Landscapes: The Life and Michael Rice, Middle Civil War in the West—Lessons for “Transnational Organizations 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm ALEXANDER v. HUMBOLDT Kansas City, Missouri at White Creek, IN, under Quelleneditionen/Primary Poetry of Hilde Domin in Exile” that aims to develop strong relationships between Stefan Manz, Tennessee State University Multicultural Educators Today” These are only some of the changes made recently to our website. and German Diasporic Identity Ingo Schwarz, Sources Editions. Under Veröffentlichungen/ Aston University “Alexander von Humboldt’s Inter- “Stories of `Political Flotsam`: The Germany and the United States. He was treasurer of the DAUSA also offers maps for sale and researches and offers copies in the Americas, 1871-1914” Berlin-Brandenburg 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm DOCUMENTARY FILM est in the Supplies of Precious Metals Christoph Rosenthal, Reception of Lion Feuchtwanger’s Publications you will also find the 2006 dissertation (DIN A 3) of ship passenger lists (The National Archives Microfilm “Between Third Reich and American Akademie der “The World War I Internment Camp CDU party in Germany from 1970 to 1991, and he has held Christian Wilbers, and their Impact on the Economy” Freie Universität Berlin Novel Paris Gazette (1940) in of Harro Eichhorn: Stellenwert und Funktion von Publications, 1820-1897). Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Wissenschaften in Hot Springs, North Carolina” a number of other important posts in German politics and College of William & Mary North American Newspapers” Gemeinde, Pastor und Lehrer in Kirchengemeinden Politics of Belonging, 1920-1945” “A Transatlantic Dialogue with Optional Tour to National Sandra Rebok, 10:15 am - 11:45 am LINGUISTICS II Sunday, April 15 served on many company boards in Europe, the United “The Voices in Exile Have Returned: the Natural World: Alexander von World War I Museum der Missouri Synode des 19. Jahrhunderts: Auf Eric J. Schmaltz, University of Virginia Recent Scholarship on Ethnic German Humboldt and Thomas Jefferson” Nicole Eller, “Heritage Speakers: Sprecherbio- States and Canada. den Alltagsspuren deutscher Auswanderer in Northwestern Universität Passau, graphien und Sprachenkontakphän- Letters from the Soviet Union Published Detlev Doherr, “Online Access to Alexander von Oklahoma State University and Alfred Wildfeuer, omene von Sprechern deutschböh- on the Great Plains from 1917 to 1937” Hochschule Offenburg Humboldt’s Travels to the Americas” Universität Regensburg mischer Auswanderervarietäten”
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