Friends of Lutheran Archives
About Friends of Lutheran Archives
The Friends of Lutheran Archives is a group whose goal is to encourage the collection & preservation of archival material and to promote the work of the Lutheran Archives.
Become a Friend of the Lutheran Archives. Email FoLA for information, subscription rates, publications, outings, etc.
Publications
Friends of Lutheran Archives Journal
Receive your subscription to the journal with your FoLA membership.
Many back issues of the FoLA Journal, since 1991, are still available. Check the list and sample the interesting articles.
Contact FoLA to obtain more information or to obtain your own copies.
Wartburg to Bowden: A Faith Journey
For the Take Time radio series, this program was recorded in the Lutheran Archives in Adelaide, and was broadcast on Good Friday 25 March 2005, on Radio PBA FM in Salisbury SA, and on up to 33 other community stations around Australia.
The 30 minute program is now available online as an MP3 audiofile, and can be downloaded from www.austcolled.com.au/taketime - go to the Archives section (recent programs) and then to Friday 25 March. The program was produced and presented by Tony Ryan.
Contact
Email: fola@lca.org.au
Events for 2008
Kartoffelfest
Monday 21 July at 7.00pm
Bethlehem House, Sudholz Pl, Adelaide
The United Nations has named 2008 the ‘Year of the Potato’ in honour of its rank as the 3rd most popular food staple after rice and wheat; and in fact it ranks 1st for productivity per unit of land and water. Since its legendary introduction by Friedrich the Great, the potato (or earth-apple as it was known, and in some dialects still is) played a major role in the diet of the rural population in Germany, and the blight which so famously decimated the Irish population may have been one of the pressures inducing our ancestors to seek a better life elsewhere. The history and culture of the potato in Germany will be highlighted during the evening.
Our dinner will feature a ‘tasting menu’ of smaller dishes celebrating traditional German ways of serving the potato with a range of humble and not-so-humble accompaniments. The Bethlehem Sanctuary Guild are expert caterers who have raised thousands of dollars for LWA projects such as AMSA and our Indonesian orphanage; $5 per person of the dinner cost will be donated to FoLA.
Cost is $25 per head and bookings are essential, as numbers are limited. BYO drinks; glasses provided. Book by 11th July by phoning the Archives 8340 4009.
Luther Seminary – Four decades
Speaker: Vic Pfitzner
Monday 18 August at 7.30pm
Bethlehem House, Sudholz Pl, Adelaide
When the 1966 Constituting Convention of the new Lutheran Church of Australia resolved to expand Immanuel Seminary in order to create a new Luther Seminary as a thanksgiving offering for union, it was a gesture of crucial significance. The merger of Concordia and Immanuel Seminaries was more than a symbol of the doctrinal consensus that had been achieved after 120 years of division; it was a pledge of true unity to be maintained through the common theological education of all the pastors of the one church.
When the new seminary opened in 1968, Dr Vic Pfitzner, a graduate of Immanuel Seminary and Adelaide and Münster Universities, was a 30-year-old recent recruit to the Seminary faculty. Vic went on to serve on the faculty for 37 years – including nine as Principal. To mark the 40th anniversary of this significant foundation, he will present a personal and anecdotal history of the issues and personalities involved in the formation of our LCA pastors over the past 4 decades.
FoLA /ICOSA Literary Lutherans volume 2
August von der Flatt, Fritz vom Schkrupp and friends
Speaker: Dr Erich Renner
Monday 22 September at 7.30pm
Bethlehem House, Sudholz Pl, Adelaide
Did your grandmother speak Platt? Or Barossa Deutsch? From the very start, when they adopted the word ‘Fenz’ (fence), the speech of SA German settlers was influenced by their English fellow-colonists. By the end of the 19th century Australian German was surely a variant spoken nowhere else.
In the 1930s this unique form of speech became the medium of humorous popular literature. As Fritz vom Schkrupp, Pastor John Dohler wrote for the Almanac of life in the Mallee, JFW Schulz recorded a lively parish meeting, and GA Keller wrote of his travels in Europe in the year of Hitler’s Berlin Olympics.
This proved to be a final flowering of a language which soon began to fade under the pressure of the War – although many of you may remember Evan Kleemann’s ‘Barossa English’ monologues at Luther League events or Melodienacht.
Dr Renner has immersed himself in this unique lost language, and is enjoying the challenge of introducing it entertainingly even to English mono-linguals.
The regular meeting place has been changed to Bethlehem House, Sudholz Place, because of the number of members experiencing problems with the stairs at LLL. Ramps and a lift for those not able to cope with stairs are a definite advantage at Bethlehem House, and parking in the city on Monday nights is not a problem.
LLL did not charge us for the use of the meeting room, but Bethlehem House requires payment. We are now asking for a gold coin donation to cover the cost. Please remember to give your donation as you arrive at the meetings. (Supper will also be provided out of these funds.)
Audiocassettes are available for many of the meeting topics.
For more information, contact Dennis, c/- Lutheran Archives
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