The German-Queenslanders – A Celebration The Cultural Contribution Since the 1850s until the present time German immigrants and their descendants, the German-Queenslanders, have made and are still making an enormous and significant contribution to the cultural landscape of our great State. Our early German pioneers brought their ‘cultural baggage’, folkways […]
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Lost in the Bush – Dr von Lossberg’s ordeal
Lost in the Bush – a Doctor’s Story Born on 6 April 1837 at Hesse-Cassel in Germany, Dr William Henry (Wilhelm Heinrich) von Lossberg journeyed from Hamburg to Brisbane in 1863 as surgeon-superintendent on the ship, ‘Alster’. A bachelor at the time, Dr von Lossberg soon took up residence at […]
Andy Grant – A Tribute
ANDY – A Tribute to my dear late friend, Andy Grant Andrew Gilbert Grant in reflective pose (photograph by the late Lionel O’Keefe) Is it really possible to convey to you, the reader, the many aspects that makes a relationship alive, the smiles, the laughs and the good times spent […]
92 Sussex Street – The Accordion Master and the Wallet
92 Sussex Street – The Accordion Master and the Wallet by Mark Schuster When does an event that seems to be such an astounding coincidence actually have a meaning that we should heed? Also, real life events can be even stranger than our dreams – and when they do happen, […]
Old German waltz played by Ted Morrison of Brisbane in the early1980s
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Queensland’s German Connections – New Book!
Publication of “Queensland’s German connections” This three-year project has come to fruition with the publication and official launch of the bookQueensland’s German connections: past, present and future – 170 years strong (1842-2012). A magnificent, full-colour work with almost 600 illustrations in its 376 pages, the book examines a broad […]
Australian Button Accordion Styles
Button Accordian Styles of the ”Vienna system” button accordion (C, G, C-F, G-C, A-D, G-C-F) After many years closely observing many traditional diatonic button accordion players throughout eastern Australia and parts of South Australia, with a particular emphasis on southern Queensland it was possible to reach some conclusions based on […]
ALWAYS AFTERNOON: Trial Bay, German Internment and the German-Australian Community – A Question of Belonging, Loyalty and Country
by Mark Schuster (Brisbane, QLD) ‘Day in day out, nothing but this terrible ancestral castle, the sea and nothing but the sea, and the overwhelming unfulfilled yearning for freedom and our home country.’ (Martin Trojan, 1922) How did a large number of German internees and a small local […]
From Deutschland to Dundee: Germans South of the (Queensland) Border
Back in the early 1980s, when attending university at Armidale, I used to travel past the small New England tablelands community of Dundee. A name like that makes you envisage a Scottish landscape and memories of Celtic origins – which is how the region certainly feels. The New England region […]
Useful Links
Useful Links Below are listed a number of internet sites that may assist with resources on German-Queensland history, culture and general information. An essential resource site for German-Queensland family history and genealogy listings: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-QLD-SE-Germans (copy and paste into your browser to view sight)
