FRIDAY, APRIL 17 9:00 – 10:00 a. m.
Plenary Session – Gerhard Weiss, University of Minnesota
"Als die Roemer frech geworden..." - Arminius/Hermann in German Literature and Lore.
Following the keynote address, Presentation of SGAS achievement Award
SGAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in German-American Studies: Frank Trommler,
University of Pennsylvania
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 10:00 – 12:00 noon.
Moselle Room
Moderator: Randall Donaldson
1. Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania
Wisdom! Strength! Fraternity! Philadelphia’s Still Existing Hermann Lodge of 1810
2. John-Leonard Berg, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
From Rhineland to New Ulm: The Journey of an Early German Pioneer
3. Gregory Hanson, Kutztown University
S Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch Eck: a weekly column devoted to the literature, lore and
history of the Pennsylvania Germans (1935-1969)
Rhine Room
Moderator: J. Gregory Redding
1. Gregory Divers, St. Louis University
Benefits of Doubt: Felix Pollak and His Place in German-American Poetry
2. Karl Fuessl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
From Mutual Understanding to Propaganda and Espionage
3. Kathryn Doty, New Ulm Author
A Long Year of Silence -- Turning German American history into fiction
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 1:30 – 4:00 p. m.
Moselle Room
Moderator: Timothy J. Holian
1. Daniel Hoisington, publisher, Edinborough Press, Roseville, Minnesota.
New Ulm in World War I
2. William E. Petig, Stanford University
Xaver Scharwenka: His American Experience
3.Steven Rowan, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Gottfried Duden’s Report
4. Wolf D. Fuhrig, Illinois College ret. MacMurray College
Gustav Koerner and Abraham Lincoln, 1842 to 1865
Rhine Room
Moderator: William D. Keel
1. Arnold Koelpin, Martin Luther College
Hermann from Legend to Symbol: The story of Hermann’s journey from the Teutoburg Forest of Germania to become a national monument on the Plains of Midwest America and a national symbol of contributions made by Americans with Germanic background.
2. LaVern Rippley, St. Olaf College
German-Bohemians and the Hermann Statue
3. Daniel Nützel, Universität Regensburg, Institut für Germanistik
Paul Kretsch’s Dictionary of New Ulm Area Böhmisch
Saturday April 18 9:00 – 12:30
Moselle Room
Moderator: Cora Lee Kluge
1. Alfred Wildfeuer, Universität Regensburg, Institut für Germanistik and Nicole Eller (University of Regensburg) The German-Bohemian Dialect of New Ulm – A Variety of North Bavarian
2. Joseph Meyer, New Ulm
Expulsion from the Former German Homelands.
3. Pete Kastner, University of Northern Colorado
A Course on German Culture in the U.S., especially Weld County, CO
4. J. Gregory Redding, Wabash College
Joseph Frisz and the Shades of Death: German Roots of the American Conservation Movement
Rhine Room
Moderator: William Roba
1. William Keel, University of Kansas
A Swiss-German Schnitzelbank Song from 1857: Could This Be the Missing Link?
2. Siegfried Sutterlin, Indian Hills Community College
Ordoliberalism vs. Outkeynesianizing Keynes: A Comparative Assessment of the
German and American Economies Since WWII: What the Immigrants Left and What
They Found
3. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, University of Cincinnati
Germans on the Minnesota Frontier During the 1862 Sioux Uprising
4. Richard Trost,
Every President Needs a Right-hand Man: Carl Schurz
Dedication: At 4:00 pm on Saturday – the newly constructed Pfaender Park
Colonel Wilhelm Pfaender Park
The seven-acre park that is now officially named The Colonel Wilhelm Pfaender Park is located within the newly developing city addition known as the Milford Heights Addition. Its two main streets are named after two primary pioneers, Beinhorn and Pfaender. The adjoining park is undeveloped, but its seven acres will make it a site for major park activity in the future. It is also fitting that the park and street bear the Pfaender name. The original Pfaender homestead was not within the city but in Milford Township. A recent annexation of this Milford Heights Addition brings the Pfaender name back into the city in another manner.
Visitors are directed to the park by traveling west on 5th North Street from North Broadway or from North Highland. North 5th becomes Brown County Road 27 and is an alternate route to Sleepy Eye, MN.