Lutheran Archives

Speaker: Samuel Doering

Thursday 24 February 2022, 7:30pm

Immanuel Lutheran Church, 139 Archer Street, North Adelaide

Emilie Appelt started writing a diary in 1904, carefully setting down daily events, intimate thoughts, and cherished wishes. The then fifty-two-year-old had already had an extraordinary life. Her diary would become the most valuable historic record of early Eudunda.

Writing across ten tumultuous years at the turn of the twentieth century, Emilie witnessed the changing fortunes of a rural commercial hub until the eve of World War One, a seismic event that would transform her town. Her diary records a community on the precipice of change, a world now lost to us.

From everyday routine to ghastly accidents, and from intimate personal confessions to the cogs of change in religious and political spheres, Emilie's diary tells a rounded story of life in Eudunda a century ago.

The speaker, Mr. Samuel Doering, recently graduated with First Class Honours in History and English from the New College of the Humanities, London. He also appears on ABC Radio with Peter Goers, and writes for Art UK. He has edited Emilie’s decade-long diary, shedding light on the events she witnessed through footnotes, photographs and new research. The Diary of Emilie Appelt: Eudundan. German. Lutheran. Woman. 1904-1914. is his first book.

Bookings are essential. Please book between Thursday 17th February - Thursday 24 February, 3pm. Phone/text Helen Schubert 0447 740 711.

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Speaker: Philip Holzknecht

Thursday 24 March, 2022 at 7.30pm

Immanuel Lutheran Church, 139 Archert Street, North Adelaide

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The presentation covering thoughts on prehistory, through the Exploration/Early Colonial Era to the beginning of World War 1, is based on Philip’s UPNG Masters thesis entitled Bom-bom - Bingsu - Ngamalac (White Men, Missionaries, Village People): Exploration and Contact in the Morobe Region of New Guinea

Philip is a New Guinea born son and grandson of pioneer Lutheran missionaries of the Neuendettelsau Mission Society of Bavaria. He studied political science, history, anthropology and archaeology at the University of Papua New Guinea, his German language skills enabling a lasting contribution to the reference section of the University’s Library. He is the only Lutheran ‘MK/MGK’ (missionary kid/grandkid) to have attended this institution.

In mid-1975, Philip joined the staff of Martin Luther Seminary, Lae PNG as lecturer in General Studies, assisting the development of three future PNG Lutheran Bishops and several other ELC-PNG leaders.

Bookings are essential. Please book between Thursday 17th March - Thursday 24 February, 3pm. Phone/text Helen Schubert 0447 740 711.

• Please wear a face mask, and use the FoLA QR code, or add your name, signature and contact details to the check-in sheet.
• Don’t forget to also write your name legibly in the FoLA attendance book.
• Please use the hand sanitiser provided after checking in.

This event will be livestreamed. Please view at https://vimeo.com/631515575

SA Germans and the German Empire, 1871

Speaker: Lois Zweck

Monday 18 October at 7.30pm CSDT *** 7pm CSDT AGM ***

Bethlehem House, Sudholz Pl, Adelaide

Were rural Germans in SA interested in the politics of the lands they had left behind decades ago? Did they keenly follow newspaper reports of the battles in the Franco-Prussian War during 1870? How did they feel when their country – Mecklenburg, Saxony, Baden, Bavaria or any of the 30-odd  other German states, together with their ruling king or duke or prince – became part of the new German Empire, united under the Prussian King as Kaiser Wilhelm I with Bismarck as his Chancellor? How can we know? But Lutherans did indeed sing hymns in celebration, and were thanked by His Majesty for their donations for the widows and orphans of the fallen soldiers.