Table Of ContentGlobal Germany in Transnational Dialogues
Series Editors: Benjamin Nickl · Irina Herrschner · Elżbieta M. Goździak
Benjamin Nickl
Irina Herrschner
Elżbieta M. Goździak Editors
German‐Australian
Encounters and
Cultural Transfers
Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands
Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues
Series editors
Benjamin Nickl, School of Languages and Cultures, The University
of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Irina Herrschner, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University
of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Elżbieta M. Goździak, Institute for the Study of International Migration,
Washington, DC, USA
Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues presents original research work from
contributors in a cutting-edge collection of case and monograph studies in
humanities, business, economics, law, education, cultural studies and science. It
offers concise yet in-depth overviews of contemporary ties between Germany and
nations states around the world with long-standing ties to the Federal Republic. It
serves as an arena for both scholars and practitioners to apply comparative and
interconnectedresearch outcomesconnectedtotopicssuchaseducationalpolicies,
Muslimness, refugee integration, nation branding and digital societies as well as
other transnational contexts. This series is an interdisciplinary project to provide
readers with a fresh look at Germany’s relations to other countries in the 21st
century. The bilateral concept is anchored in a renewed interest in Germany’s
innovativestanceonidentitypolitics,fiscalpolicies,civillawandnationalcultures.
The series caters to a renewed interest in transnational studies and the actors
working across the boundaries of nation states.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15756
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Editors
Benjamin Nickl ElżbietaM. Goździak
Schoolof Languages andCultures Institute for the Studyof International
TheUniversity of Sydney Migration
Sydney,NSW Washington, DC
Australia USA
Irina Herrschner
Schoolof Languages andLinguistics
TheUniversity of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC
Australia
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Foreword
‘It’sasmallworld’,greetedanIndiancolleagueofminewhenwehappenedtorun
intoeachotheratanAustralianstudiesconferenceinBordeaux,France,afewyears
ago.DieWeltisteinDorfortheworldisavillage,Ireplieduponhavingbeenasked
for the German equivalent of this proverb. Both variants imply a certain connect-
ednessbetweendifferentgeographicallocales,suggestingasenseofwhatImaycall
globalprovincialism.Movingbeyonditsnarrowmeaningofachanceencounterin
an unexpected place, the saying bears greater impact on how to conceive of dif-
ferent forms of human engagement across nations. Can the post-millennium surge
of right-wing populism, for example, be interpreted as an isolated phenomenon
whichmirrorsthespecificitiesofnationalhistories?IstheFrontNationalinFrance
an exceedingly French brainchild or the German Alternative für Deutschland very
muchaGermanone?IsOneNationsomethingasAustralianasTrump’spresidency
issomethingAmerican?AndBrexit,thedepartureoftheUnitedKingdomfromthe
European Union, something quite British? The answer, perhaps, is yes and no.
Nationalspecificitiesareasmuchatstakeasarethemechanismsofhowpeopleand
ideas and cultures are moving across, against and beyond other nations as well as
their own. Benedict Anderson’s idea of nations being narrations implies the pos-
sibility of re-narrations, counter-narrations, overlapping, mutual and distinct nar-
rations: of Front National, or AfD, or One Nation, the Trump presidency, and of
Brexit. Transnational approaches can illuminate the complex interplay of national
developments, without negating the importance of the nation as an analytical
parameterforscholarlyresearch.ThehistoryofEuropeancolonialism,forone,can
be read asa transnational ventureofwhite supremacy that evolved its peculiarities
within national borders. The transnational can thus be deeply national and vice
versa.
Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues features a wide spectrum of con-
temporary manifestations of the transnational. The multi-disciplinary collection of
essays in this book, and in the series as whole, is going to indicate that transna-
tionalism affects highly different forms of human engagement, from public diplo-
macy over changing migration patterns to popular culture and the translation of
books. For all their diverse approaches, the essays assembled here exhibit careful
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analyses of commonalities as much as differences in national developments. They
showtheimportanceofthenationasacentralanalyticalcategoryforunderstanding
thefunctioningoftransnationalism.Neitheristhenationanobsoleteconceptnoris
it useful to speak of a postnational era, an age that has overcome nationalism and
the ordering of the world into nations. The present book on the transnational
interplay between Australia and Germany reveals how ideas of the national have
shifted. One of the study’s major strengths lies in its focus on the contemporary.
The transnational partly encompasses historical narratives such as race, which can
appeartenaciousandhardlymalleable.Yet,asthechaptersdemonstrateaswell,the
dynamics of the transnational incorporate the past into reforming and evolving
concepts of the nation in the new century.
This first volume in the series of Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues
not only offers insights into transnational theory generally, but also provides fresh
aspects to the relationship between Australia and Germany. With comparative
approachesinGermanstudiesoftenfocussingonrelationshipswithNorthAmerica,
the United Kingdom and Europe, systematic studies of German–Australian rela-
tions are somewhat scarce. Manfred Jurgensen’s German-Australian Cultural
Relations (1995) constitutes perhaps a relatively early example in this field,
increasingly followed by work outside the literary discipline, for example, Jürgen
Tampke’s The Germans in Australia (2006), Christine Winter’s and Emily
Turner-Graham’s collection National Socialism in Oceania (2010), or Peter
Monteath’s Germans: Travellers, Settlers and Their Descendants in South
Australia (2011). Global Germany sets out on an innovative departure from being
solely comparative to focussing rigorously on cultural connections that are forged
throughthenationalandtransnational.Itpresentsanavenueforaradicalrethinking
of the making of both Germany and Australia.
Vienna Oliver Haag
Contents
Part I Institutional Transnationalism
Strategically Shaping International Cultural Relations in a Changing
Competitive Environment: Reflections on Recent German-Australian
Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Arpad-Andreas Sölter
CuratingtheAntipodes:TheDiversificationofCulturalDiplomacyin
the 21st Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Irina Herrschner
German Lieder in Modern Australia: Practice and Perception . . . . . . . . 41
Julia Nafisi
Part II Lived Realities of Transnationalism
Mobility Patterns Between Germany and Australia in the
Twenty-First Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Maren Klein
Germany’s Pianoforte: Globally-Minded from Birth? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Michael Shirrefs
Personal Films and Transcultural Visions: An Interview with the
Artist Filmmaker Paul Winkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Giles Fielke
Part III Comparative Transnationalism
The Challenge and Benefit of Comparative Research in Education
Systems and the Impact of PISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Esther Doecke
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‘AsiaLiterate’LearninginGlobalContexts:CurriculumPerspectives
on Asian Languages Education in Australia and Germany . . . . . . . . . . 111
Michiko Weinmann
Australian Children’s Literature in German Translation: Historical
Overview, Key Themes and Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Leah Gerber
Berlin-Melbourne: Transnational Cultures Collide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Stuart Braun
Part IV Transnational Challenges Unbound
Post-colonialNarrativesofAustralianIndigeneityinAustria:TheEssl
Exhibition on Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Oliver Haag
German-Australian Research on a Difficult Legacy: Colonial
Collections of Indigenous Human Remains in German Museums
and Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Paul Turnbull
A Chain of Ponds: On German and Australian
Artistic Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson
Popular Comedy as Transnational Intervention: Contemporary
Muslimness on Screen in Germany and Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Benjamin Nickl
Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 221
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
BenjaminNicklisassistantprofessoroftransnationalculturestudiesatTheUniversityofSydney.
HereceivedhisPhDinGermancultureandpopularentertainmentstudiesfromtheUniversityof
Melbournein2016.HiscurrentpublicationsfocusonissuesofTurkishGermancultureandthe
representation of transnational Muslim minority populations in Western non-Muslim majority
societies.
IrinaHerrschnerhasrecentlysubmittedherPhDoncontemporaryculturaldiplomacy.Sheisa
teachingassociateintheFacultyofArtsattheUniversityofMelbourneandatMonashUniversity
and she also lectures in the area of tourism studies at Swinburne University. Her research and
forthcoming publications focus on cultural diplomacy, cinematic diplomacy and other forms of
globalmobility.
ElżbietaM.Goździak isresearchprofessorattheInstitutefortheStudyofInternationalMigration
(ISIM)atGeorgetownUniversity.IntheFallof2016sheservedastheGeorgeSorosVisitingChairin
Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Formerly, she was
Editor-in-ChiefofInternationalMigration.Herresearchagendafocusesonrefugeeandimmigrant
integration,globalhealthandhumanitarianism,childmigration,andhumantrafficking.
Contributors
Stuart Braun isanAustralianjournalist, writer andhistorianwhohasbeenbased
in Berlin since 2009. His most recent essays and journalism explore society and
cultureinBerlinandhaveappearedinTheGuardian,LeMondeDiplomatique,The
Saturday Paper, and Deutsche Welle. His non-fiction book, City of Exiles: Berlin
from the Outside In was published by Noctua Press in 2015 and recounts Berlin’s
evolutionasasanctuaryforartists,radicalsandrefugeesfromaroundtheworld.He
alsoproducessocialhistorydocumentariesforABCRadioNationalwhichfocuson
urban Aboriginal communities in Melbourne.
Esther Doecke is a research fellow at the Centre for International Research on
Education Systems at Victoria University. She is engaged in international
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