Annual Meeting of the Society for German American Studies 2000
in Bremerhaven / Bremen

Program

Updated: April 2000

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Emigration via Bremen and Bremerhaven

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Date Morning Afternoon Evening
Sun 11 June   a) Registration (12-20 h)
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven (see city map no. 6) - Alte Mensa
b) SGAS Executive Committee Meeting (13-15 h) room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - Turmzimmer		 'Gemütliches Beisammensein'; film: Bremen 1871 - 1945. A Chronicle (19.30-22.30 h)
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - Alte une Neue Mensa
Mon 12 June

Sessions (9-11.30 h, including coffee break)

1) German Immigration
2) Bremerhaven and the German Immigration
3) German-American Literature

Sessions (14-16.30 h, including coffee break)

4) Schleswig-Holstein
5) The German Language in America
6) From the Civil War to the 21st Century 		Buffet and reception (with US Consul General and Mayor of Bremerhaven) (18-19.30 h);
room: Weser Forum - Alte Weser (see city map no. 8);
presentation of EXPO project: exhibition 'The Migration Experience/ Adventures in Emigration' (20 - 20.45 h)
Tue 13 June All day excursion to Cloppenburg Open Air Farm Life Museum (9-16.30 h), including tour of the museum, German 'Brotzeit' with homemade bread, 'Butterkuchen', coffee, refreshments and lectures by museum staff

Presentation of new book 'Hollandgänger, Sträflinge and Migranten - Bremen und Bremerhaven als Wanderungsraum' (H. Roessler) (19.30-20.30 h)
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - Alte Mensa

Wed 14 June

Sessions (9-11.30 h, including coffee break)

7) Pennsylvania
8) Ohio Valley I
9) The Forty-Eighters

Excursion to Cuxhaven, Steubenhöft, historic HAPAG facilities (14-19 h), including tour of Hapag buildings, seafood specials, coffee, refreshments

Session

10) Sources 		(ecumenical) German-American church service on the bank of the river Weser at the 'Emigrant Statue' (20.30-22 h)
Thu 15 June

Sessions (9-11.30 h, including coffee break)

11) Ohio Valley II
12) Plattdeutsch
13) The Immigration Process
14) Texas

a) Walking tour through Bremerhaven on the emigrant trail (14-16 h), or
b) excursion to Bremen exploring the Hanseatic past and the migration experience (14-19 h), or
c) excursion to the Cuxland exploring maritime everyday life and sites of emigration (14-19 h)

Barbecue on the bank of the river Weser (20-22.30 h)
Fri 16 June

Sessions (9-11.30 h, including coffee break)

15) North German Studies Task Force
16) German-American Exchange Programs
17) Texas and the Southwest

Sessions (14-17.30 h, including coffee break)

18) German-American Poetry Reading
19) Bremerhaven and Immigration - Personal Accounts
20) Concluding Session and SGAS Business Meeting

Dinner (18 - 19.30 h);
entertainment:
a) drums and fifes
b) traditional dance
c) short film
d) emigrants' songs
e) SGAS award f) navy choir
(19.30-23 h)
room: Columbusbahnhof II

Sat 17 June

All day excursions to:

a) EXPO 2000 Theme Park in Hannover (9-18 h), or
b) EXPO Maritime Project in Wilhelmshaven (9-18 h) via Weser-ferry, includes visit of German-American Friendship Day

In order to make the meeting as interesting as possible for participants, to attract additional guests from abroad and to give interested citizens from Bremerhaven, Bremen and surrounding areas the opportunity to take part in the SGAS Year 2000 Symposium and get in touch with Americans a great number of events are offered in addition to the conference program proper.

a) In collaboration with the Bremen Tourist Authority the local Tourist Board will provide participants, guests and visitors with all kinds of information on where to go? how to get there? what to do? - on the maritime as well as the historical museums of Bremerhaven and Bremen; theaters, blues pubs and the musical; trips on the river etc. pp. Thus guests will be assisted to go out on their own an discover a great variety of cultural and tourist attractions Bremerhaven and Bremen have to offer.

Visitors to the sea city of Bremerhaven can also enjoy themselves during a special 'American Week' in the city center organized by the Tourist Board.

b) A rich program will be organized for participants and citizens in the evenings, ranging from the presentation of a film chronicle of Bremen-Bremerhaven and a new book on migrations in the Bremen-Bremerhaven region to a barbecue on the bank of the river Weser or a special German-American church service at the 'statue of the emigrants'. Friday night, June 16 will certainly be a highlight when symposium participants and visitors as well as Bremerhaven's citizens will be entertained by traditional dances, jugglers and music performed by drums and fifes, a navy choir and a folk group singing emigrants' songs.

c) A number of exhibitions will inform participants, visitors and the people of Bremerhaven and Bremen about various facets of German-American immigration history. Aside from the exhibitions listed below Bremerhaven's Historical Museum will present 'Aufbruch in die Fremde / Fame, Fortune and Sweet Liberty'.

SGAS Year 2000 Symposium: Exhibitions

Exhibition (produced by) Presented from - to Site
Auswanderung und Kirche (Gemeinde Grosse Kirche) 4 June - 30 August Bremerhaven: Grosse Kirche
Cultural Contributions of German speaking settlers in South Carolina (Clemson University, Clemson, SC)  
11 - 16 June
 
and
 
18 - 30 June		 Bremerhaven: Hochschule Bremerhaven - Alte Mensa
 
and
 
Sievern: John-Wagener-Haus
Bremen-Bremerhaven als Auswandererhafen (Foerderverein Deutsches Auswanderermuseum) 11 - 17 June Bremerhaven: Hochschule Bremerhaven - Alte Mensa
Arbeiter und Wanderer / Workers and Immigrants (Danish Emigration Archives, Aalborg) 22 May - 16 June Bremerhaven: Staedtische Sparkasse
Abschied nach Amerika - Steubenhoeft Cuxhaven (Routes to the Roots, Oldenburg) May - October Cuxhaven: Steubenhoeft
Presentation of EXPO project: "The Migration Experience/ Adventures in Emigration" June 12 (20 - 20.45) Bremerhaven: Weser Forum - Alte Weser

Session Information

 1) German Immigration - LaVern J. Rippley, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - M 0200 (seating capacity: 85 persons)

The German Language Diaspora, 1700-1933, Dirk Hoerder

Those Who Didn't Make it: German Immigrants in Britain During the 18th and 19th Century, Panikos Panayi

Advice to Prospective Immigrants: Two Communications to Germany from Pennsylvania, Donald Durnbaugh

Aus Hannover und Oldenburg abgeschoben in die USA, Antonius Holtmann

2) Bremerhaven and the German Immigration - Timothy Holian, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven K 002 (seating capacity: 65 persons)

Bremen - Bremerhaven als Wanderungsraum, Horst Roessler

Auswanderungspunkt: Bremen 1834 - Immigrant Letters and Chain Migration, David Prickett-Barnes

From Bremen to America: Johann Georg Kohl, Chronicler of the American Continent, Margrit B. Krewson

3) German-American Literature - Manfred Zimmermann, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven L 001 (seating capacity: 55 persons)

German-American Poetry, from 1848 to the Present, Jacob Erhardt

"...liess sich in den Buergerverein dieser Republik aufnehmen." - Der amerikanische Emigrant Charles Sealsfield und sein suedstaatlicher Amerikanismus, Alexander Ritter

Wendepunkte im Leben und Werk von Alfred Gong: Perspektiven der Forschung, Joachim Herrmann

4) Schleswig-Holstein - William Henry Roba, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - M 0200

Andreas F. Hanssen, New Holstein, Wisconsin - A Schleswig-Holsteinian Cosmopolitan in the Bush, Joachim Reppmann

Find Your Ancestors in Schleswig-Holstein: Sources and Resources, Dietrich Eicke

Die Meggersfamilie in Schleswig-Holstein, Jochen Meggers

5)The German Language in America - Ernestine Dillon, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - K 002

Plattdeutsch and Plautdietsch in Kansas and Misssouri in the Year 2000: A Last Hurrah, or a New Beginning, William Keel

German as Spoken in America: East Franconian in Haysville, Indiana, Daniel Nuetzel

German-American Dialect Humor, Holger Kersten

6) From the Civil War to the 21st Century - Frances Ott Allen, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - L 001

Der amerikanische Buergerkrieg in Deutschland, Martin Kuehn

Defenders of Personal Liberty? The NGAA and the Prohibition Debate, 1901-1915, Charles Johnson

Deutsch-Amerikanische Beziehungen im Rahmen der 800-Jahrfeier von Dresden, Gert Buergel

7) Pennsylvania - David Prickett-Barnes, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - M 0200

The Pennsylvania German Farm: Photography of H. Winslo Fegley Reconsidered, Susan Schuerer

Pennsylvaniadeutsch: Ein Ueberblick, Michael Werner

Besucht und beduerftig gefunden: Auswandererarmut und karitative Taetigkeit, Manfred Zimmermann

8) Ohio Valley I - moderator: Dr. Dieter Strohmeyer;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - K 002

German and/or American: The Question of the Hyphen in Indiana, Giles Hoyt

Mit Lessing in die USA und zurueck: Anmerkungen zur Entstehung und Wirkung einer Ausstellung ueber deutsch-amerikanische Aufklaerungskultur, Dieter Fratzke

Denn wo deutsche Herzen schlagen, ist das deutsche Vaterland: eine Spurensuche an des Ohios Strand, Birka Siwczk

9) The Forty-Eighters - Dolores Hoyt, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - L 001

Baron Ludwig von Reitzenstein, the Gay Forty-Eighter? Emigration and Deviance in German New Orleans in the Mid-19th Century, Steven Rowan.

Die Turnfahrt uebers Meer: Die Rezeption der amerikanischen Turner des deutschen Turnfestes in Frankfurt 1880, Annette Hoffmann

10) Sources - Margrit B. Krewson, moderator;
room: Cuxhaven

A Strong Mind in a Strong Body: Libraries in the German-American Turner Movement, Dolores Hoyt

The Historic Emigration Office in Hamburg, Elizabeth Stroka

Luxemburger in der Neuen Welt, Jean Claude Muller

11) Ohio Valley II - Charles Johnson, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - M 0200

The Columbus Germans, LaVern J. Rippley

Sklaverei und Afroamerikaner im Spiegel der deutschen Presse von Cincinnati, Alexander Richter

Temperance Agitation and the Cincinnati German-American Community, 1850-1870, Timthy J. Holian

German Immigration to Knox County, Indiana, Klaus Dehne

12) Plattdeutsch - William Keel, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - Alte Mensa (seating capacity: 40 persons)

Plattdeutsch: Geschichte und Verbreitung im Uberblick, Frerk Möller

Platt zwischen Gestern und Morgen. Zu Stand und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten einer Sprache, Ulf-Thomas Lesle

Weggehen oder bleiben? Die Auswanderung nach Amerika im Spiegel niederdeutscher Literatur, Claus Schuppenhauer

13) The Immigration Process - Frances Ott Allen, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - K 002

The Norddeutsche Lloyd and the Company's Image as Presented in its Films, Dietrich Knauf

Auswanderungsvereine, Auswanderungsverkehr und Auswanderungsfuersorge, Hartmut Bickelmann

Passagierlisten und Oldenburgs NAUSA: Ueber unzulaengliche Edtionen und hilfreiche Dienstleistungen und Ansprueche an Datenbanken, Antonius Holtmann

14) Texas - Juergen Rudloff, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - L 001

Commerical Relationships Between Galvston and Bremen/Bremerhaven in the 19th Century, Von-Maszewski

Historic Houses in Texas Built by German Immigrants, Helga von Schweinitz

Germans in the Lower Brazos Region and Galveston during the Republic of Texas, Walter Struve

15) North German Studies Task Force - William Henry Roba, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - M 0200

16) German-American Exchange Programs - Volker Schmeissner, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - K 002

17) Texas and the Southwest - Wolfgang Grams, moderator;
room: Hochschule Bremerhaven - L 001

Joseph Ochs - ein Jesuit im Suedwesten der heutigen USA: anthropologische und literarhistorische Studien, Albrecht Claasen

Memel to Round Top in Five Months, Dale von Rosenberg

German-American Identity and the 21st Century: The Example of New Braunfels, Texas, Timothy Holian

18) German-American Poetry Reading - Volker Schmeissner, moderator;
room: Columbusbahnof II (see city map no. 10) (seating capacity: more than 300 persons)

"The Germans Came Flying Like Snowflakes," Norbert Krapf.

"Poems on the Immigrant Experience," Ingeborg Carsten-Miller, Christiane Seiler, Edith Borchardt, and Lisa Kahn

19) Bremerhaven and Immigration--Personal Accounts - Horst Roessler, moderator;
room: Columbusbahnof II (capacity: more than 300 persons)

Von Bremerhaven nach Amerika, 1948-1999, Ernestine Dillon

Von Bremerhaven nach Bremerhaven: 45 Jahre in der Neuen Welt, Ernst Schuerer

Emigration via Bremerhaven: A Personal Account, Dieter Sevin

Junge vertriebene Familie wandert aus, Edgar Grunwald

20) Concluding Session and SGAS Business Meeting - Don Heinrich Tolzmann, moderator;
room: Columbusbahnof II

SGAS Symposium 2000 Committee

Frances Ott Allen
Christiana Coenen (EXPO 2000 Programm. Bremen und Bremerhaven)
Wolfgang Grams (Routes to the Roots. Travel and Research)
Dolores Hoyt (Society for German-American Studies, SGAS)
Giles Hoyt (SGAS)
LaVern J. Rippley (SGAS)
Horst Roessler (Friends of the German Emigration Museum/ Foerderverein Deutsches Auswanderermuseum, FDAM)
Juergen Rudloff (FDAM)
Jochem Schoettler (Bremerhavener Gesellschaft für Investitionsfoerderung und Stadtenwicklung, BIS Büro Bremerhaven Werbung)
Dirk Schroeder (EXPO 2000)
Don Heinrich Tolzmann (SGAS)

Symposium Co-Sponsors

Beck & Co. (Bremen)
Bremerhavener Gesellschaft für Stadtentwicklung und Investitionsförderung (BIS)
Bremer Tourismus Zentrale
Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (Bremen)
Deutsch-Amerikanischer Club e. V. (Bremen)
Deutscher Hausfrauenbund (Ortsverband Bremerhaven)
Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven)
Evangelisch-Methodistische Kirche (Bezirk Bremerhaven)
Frosta AG (Bremerhaven)
German-American Women's Club (Bremerhaven)
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND)
Goethe Institut (Bremen)
Gustav W. Rogge GmbH & Co (Bremerhaven)
Hochschule Bremerhaven
Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermündung 'Männer vom Morgenstern'
Landesfilmarchiv Bremen
Städtische Sparkasse Bremerhaven
Stadtbildstelle Bremerhaven
Universität Bremen
Universität Oldenburg, Forschungsstelle Niedersächsische Auswanderer in den USA (NAUSA)
Vereinigte Protestantische Gemeinde zur Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche (Bremerhaven)
W. A. Fritze GmbH & Co. (Bremen)

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