‘I tink I’ll haf Annuder Vone!’ – The love of Wine Mac Scharfstein Max Scharfstein comed from Deutcherland Vence comes der larger beer Had Scharfstein stoped in Deutcherland Den he never vos been here! Old Max could not be here und dere Ve all must own vhats true As true […]
Culture
The Story of Will H Lister – An Article by Warren Fahey, Australian Folklore Unit
The story of Will H. Lister – Australian Bush Humorist An article by Warren Fahey, Australian Folklore Unit I am an inveterate explorer of second-hand bookshops and book fairs. In 2002, at a Kings Cross antiquarian book fair I found a slightly damaged copy of a book titled Me – Und […]
In Obum Scrub – Article by Pastor Aub Podlich
THE LUTHERAN -30 May 2005 In Obum Scrub (This is a photo of the Fassifern Scrub-in the 1890’s – obtained by Mark Schuster) How one family is working to preserve and restore a part of God’s creation – Aub Podlich ‘To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.’ (Mary […]
The German Wagon – A Cultural Icon
The German wagon – A Cultural Icon The German Wagon is still today seen as the cultural icon of the German-Queensland farming culture and until the last decade were to be found in abundance – in varying states of decay – throughout the farmlands of southern Queensland. Many of these […]
Exorcising the Swine!
Exorcising the Swine Many of the early settlers had troubles with their pigs – particularly with differences from the ‘old country’ and getting used to farming ways and techniques more suitable for the new land. One well known incident concerns the Marburg congregation and the well-loved Pastor Temme who ministered […]
Snakes Alive!
Snakes Alive – Serpents and the German-Queensland Settlers The new settlers to Queensland were not at all familiar with snakes, Germany being home to only a few small and harmless species. In the bush of Queensland I’m sure they thought they must be surviving in a ‘living hell’, populated […]
Gott ist Gute
Dances, Crossroads, Hexen and Healers – ‘Gott ist gute, but the divil’s not too bad either’! ‘In a storm, you know why they covered mirrors? Because if you looked in a mirror during a storm quite often you could see the devil, that’s what my grandmother said, so you […]
Sad Death of a German Pastor
SAD DEATH OF A GERMAN PASTOR At Charters Towers. Poisoned by Mercury. Preserving Butterflies. Many persons in the town and suburbs (says the Charters Towers’ “Standard” of the 14th inst.), who had not heard of the sad and sudden end of the reverend Pastor Siegfried Krieg, of the German […]
Blown to Smithereens!
Blown to Smithereens! Local historian Peter Cullen, who has an immense knowledge and interest in oral history and the amazing stories of the many citizens now resting in the Toowoomba and Drayton Cemetery, told me of a most amazing case of a German-Queensland resident. The headlines of the ‘Darling […]
History of the Apostolic Church of Queensland and H F Niemeyer
A Brief History and Profile of the Apostolic Church of Queensland (An article provided kindly provided from the Apostolic Church of Queensland website) Cathedral of the Apostolic Church, Asfield Rd, Bundaberg, Dedicated for Divine Worship on 26th June, 1958 As the Apostolic Creed denotes, the Apostolic Church of Queensland’s original […]
