German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss

Contents

v The Speckled People Hugo Hamilton ix 1 Diaspora Experiences: German Immigrants and Their Descendants Mathias Schulze and James M. Skidmore xiii I Identity 2 Language and Identity in the German Diaspora Janet M.Fuller 3 3 Language and the Negotiation of Identities among German-speaking Diasporic Communities in Central Europe Patrick Stevenson and Jenny Carl 21 4 German-speaking Swiss in Australia: Typical Swiss, Model Immigrants, or a Sonderfall Abroad? Doris Schüpbach 35 5 Migration, Language Use, and Identity: German in Melbourne, Australia, since World War II Sandra Kipp 47 6 Language and Identity: The German-speaking People of Paarl Rolf Annas 61 7 Canadian German: Identity in Language Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain 73 8 “Memories from Afar”: Aspects of Memories Spanning Several Generations in Families of Austrian Jewish Refugees Andrea Strutz 83 9 Pulitzer, Preetorius, and the German American Identity Project of the Westliche Post in St. Louis JasonTodd Baker 95 10 “We dont want Kiser to rool in Ontario”: Franco-Prussian War, German Unification, and World War I as Reflected in the Canadian Berliner Journal (1859–1918) Anne Löchte 107 CONTENTS
11 The Politics of Diaspora: Russian German Émigré Activists in Interwar Germany James Casteel 117 12 Creating Transcultural Space: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Arts in Chicago, from the 1890s to the 1950s Christiane Harzig 131 13 The German Democratic Republic and the Citizens of German Origin in Canada: The Role of the Gesellschaft Neue Heimat, 1980–1990 Manuel Meune 145 II Migration 14 Moving beyond Hyphenated German Culture: Establishing a Research Agenda for Expatriate and Heritage German Literary Studies James M.Skidmore 161 15 Some Facts and Figures on German-speaking Exiles in Ireland, 1933–1945 Gisela Holfter 181 16 Conversion as a “Two-edged Sword”: Evangelicalism among Pittsburgh’s German Immigrants Nora Faires 193 17 The Diasporic Moment: Elise von Koerber, Dr. Otto Hahn, and the Attempt to Create a German Diaspora in Canada Angelika E. Sauer 205 18 German Migrants in Postwar Britain: Immigration Policy, Recruitment, and Reception Johannes-Dieter Steinert and Inge Weber-Newth 217 19 Immigration of German-speaking People to the Territory of Modern-day Turkey (1850–1918) Christin Pschichholz 231 20 Associating or Quarrelling? Migration, Acculturation, and Transmission among Social-democratic Sudeten Germans in Canada Patrick Farges 245 21 Sudeten German Refugees in Canada and the Forced Migration of Germans in Postwar Central and Eastern Europe Pascal Maeder 259 22 Language Attrition among Germans Living in the Netherlands Anne Ribbert 271 23 Der Onkel aus Amerika: The German Emigrant as a Figure of Speech and Fictional Character Carsten Würmann 281 24 “Ich will nach Amerika, mir eine neue Heimat suchen”: The Emigration of Expellees in Post-1945 West German Film Hanno Sowade 293 25 German Diaspora Experiences in British Columbia after 1945 Christian Lieb 305 vi CONTENTS 26 The German Language in the South Seas: Language Contact and the Influence of Language Politics and Language Attitudes Stefan Engelberg 317 27 Migration, Gender, and Storytelling: How Gender Shapes the Experiences and the Narrative Patterns in Biographical Interviews Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich 331 28 The Domestication of Radical Ideas and Colonial Spaces: The Case of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche Karin Bauer 345 III Loss 29 Reasons and Conditions of Population Transfer: The Expulsion of Germans from East and Central Europe and Their Integration in Germany and Abroad after World War II Hans Lemberg 359 30 Emigration and Wiedergutmachung: The Social History of Jewish Entrepreneurs from Frankfurt,1933–1963 Benno Nietzel 379 31 Dissolving the German Diaspora in Poland: A Different Approach Dieter K. Buse 391 32 Suffering in a Province of Asia: The Russian German Diaspora in Kazakhstan J.Otto Pohl 405 33 The Nationalization Campaign and the Rewriting of History: The Case of Blumenau Méri Frotscher Kramer 419 34 Pennsylvania German in Kansas: Language Change or Loss? Jörg Meindl 431 35 Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: Negotiating the Past in Huntsville Monique Laney 443 36 Brave or Naive? Memory Work and Vergangenheitsbew ältigung in Gertrud Mackprang Baer’s In the Shadow of Silence Doris Wolf 455 37 A German Post-1945 Diaspora? German Migrants’ Encounters with the Nazi Past Alexander Freund 467 38 Di Brandt’s Writing Breaks Canadian Mennonite Silence and Reshapes Cultural Identity Natasha G.Wiebe 479 39 Use It or Lose It? Language Use, Language Attitudes, and Language Proficiency among German Speakers in...