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Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues Series Editors: Benjamin Nickl · Irina Herrschner · Elżbieta M. Goździak Benjamin Nickl Irina Herrschner Elżbieta M. Goździak Editors German‐Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues Series editors Benjamin Nickl, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Irina Herrschner, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia Elżbieta M. Goździak, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Washington, DC, USA Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues presents original research work from contributors in a cutting-edge collection of case and monograph studies in humanities, business, economics, law, education, cultural studies and science. It offers concise yet in-depth overviews of contemporary ties between Germany and nations states around the world with long-standing ties to the Federal Republic. It serves as an arena for both scholars and practitioners to apply comparative and interconnectedresearch outcomesconnectedtotopicssuchaseducationalpolicies, Muslimness, refugee integration, nation branding and digital societies as well as other transnational contexts. This series is an interdisciplinary project to provide readers with a fresh look at Germany’s relations to other countries in the 21st century. The bilateral concept is anchored in a renewed interest in Germany’s innovativestanceonidentitypolitics,fiscalpolicies,civillawandnationalcultures. The series caters to a renewed interest in transnational studies and the actors working across the boundaries of nation states. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15756 Benjamin Nickl Irina Herrschner (cid:129) ż ź El bieta M. Go dziak Editors German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands 123 Editors Benjamin Nickl ElżbietaM. Goździak Schoolof Languages andCultures Institute for the Studyof International TheUniversity of Sydney Migration Sydney,NSW Washington, DC Australia USA Irina Herrschner Schoolof Languages andLinguistics TheUniversity of Melbourne Parkville, VIC Australia ISSN 2522-5324 ISSN 2522-5332 (electronic) GlobalGermany in TransnationalDialogues ISBN978-981-10-6598-9 ISBN978-981-10-6599-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6599-6 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017952927 ©SpringerNatureSingaporePteLtd.2018 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:152BeachRoad,#21-01/04GatewayEast,Singapore189721,Singapore Foreword ‘It’sasmallworld’,greetedanIndiancolleagueofminewhenwehappenedtorun intoeachotheratanAustralianstudiesconferenceinBordeaux,France,afewyears ago.DieWeltisteinDorfortheworldisavillage,Ireplieduponhavingbeenasked for the German equivalent of this proverb. Both variants imply a certain connect- ednessbetweendifferentgeographicallocales,suggestingasenseofwhatImaycall globalprovincialism.Movingbeyonditsnarrowmeaningofachanceencounterin an unexpected place, the saying bears greater impact on how to conceive of dif- ferent forms of human engagement across nations. Can the post-millennium surge of right-wing populism, for example, be interpreted as an isolated phenomenon whichmirrorsthespecificitiesofnationalhistories?IstheFrontNationalinFrance an exceedingly French brainchild or the German Alternative für Deutschland very muchaGermanone?IsOneNationsomethingasAustralianasTrump’spresidency issomethingAmerican?AndBrexit,thedepartureoftheUnitedKingdomfromthe European Union, something quite British? The answer, perhaps, is yes and no. Nationalspecificitiesareasmuchatstakeasarethemechanismsofhowpeopleand ideas and cultures are moving across, against and beyond other nations as well as their own. Benedict Anderson’s idea of nations being narrations implies the pos- sibility of re-narrations, counter-narrations, overlapping, mutual and distinct nar- rations: of Front National, or AfD, or One Nation, the Trump presidency, and of Brexit. Transnational approaches can illuminate the complex interplay of national developments, without negating the importance of the nation as an analytical parameterforscholarlyresearch.ThehistoryofEuropeancolonialism,forone,can be read asa transnational ventureofwhite supremacy that evolved its peculiarities within national borders. The transnational can thus be deeply national and vice versa. Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues features a wide spectrum of con- temporary manifestations of the transnational. The multi-disciplinary collection of essays in this book, and in the series as whole, is going to indicate that transna- tionalism affects highly different forms of human engagement, from public diplo- macy over changing migration patterns to popular culture and the translation of books. For all their diverse approaches, the essays assembled here exhibit careful v vi Foreword analyses of commonalities as much as differences in national developments. They showtheimportanceofthenationasacentralanalyticalcategoryforunderstanding thefunctioningoftransnationalism.Neitheristhenationanobsoleteconceptnoris it useful to speak of a postnational era, an age that has overcome nationalism and the ordering of the world into nations. The present book on the transnational interplay between Australia and Germany reveals how ideas of the national have shifted. One of the study’s major strengths lies in its focus on the contemporary. The transnational partly encompasses historical narratives such as race, which can appeartenaciousandhardlymalleable.Yet,asthechaptersdemonstrateaswell,the dynamics of the transnational incorporate the past into reforming and evolving concepts of the nation in the new century. This first volume in the series of Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues not only offers insights into transnational theory generally, but also provides fresh aspects to the relationship between Australia and Germany. With comparative approachesinGermanstudiesoftenfocussingonrelationshipswithNorthAmerica, the United Kingdom and Europe, systematic studies of German–Australian rela- tions are somewhat scarce. Manfred Jurgensen’s German-Australian Cultural Relations (1995) constitutes perhaps a relatively early example in this field, increasingly followed by work outside the literary discipline, for example, Jürgen Tampke’s The Germans in Australia (2006), Christine Winter’s and Emily Turner-Graham’s collection National Socialism in Oceania (2010), or Peter Monteath’s Germans: Travellers, Settlers and Their Descendants in South Australia (2011). Global Germany sets out on an innovative departure from being solely comparative to focussing rigorously on cultural connections that are forged throughthenationalandtransnational.Itpresentsanavenueforaradicalrethinking of the making of both Germany and Australia. Vienna Oliver Haag Contents Part I Institutional Transnationalism Strategically Shaping International Cultural Relations in a Changing Competitive Environment: Reflections on Recent German-Australian Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Arpad-Andreas Sölter CuratingtheAntipodes:TheDiversificationofCulturalDiplomacyin the 21st Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Irina Herrschner German Lieder in Modern Australia: Practice and Perception . . . . . . . . 41 Julia Nafisi Part II Lived Realities of Transnationalism Mobility Patterns Between Germany and Australia in the Twenty-First Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Maren Klein Germany’s Pianoforte: Globally-Minded from Birth? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Michael Shirrefs Personal Films and Transcultural Visions: An Interview with the Artist Filmmaker Paul Winkler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Giles Fielke Part III Comparative Transnationalism The Challenge and Benefit of Comparative Research in Education Systems and the Impact of PISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Esther Doecke vii viii Contents ‘AsiaLiterate’LearninginGlobalContexts:CurriculumPerspectives on Asian Languages Education in Australia and Germany . . . . . . . . . . 111 Michiko Weinmann Australian Children’s Literature in German Translation: Historical Overview, Key Themes and Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Leah Gerber Berlin-Melbourne: Transnational Cultures Collide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Stuart Braun Part IV Transnational Challenges Unbound Post-colonialNarrativesofAustralianIndigeneityinAustria:TheEssl Exhibition on Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Oliver Haag German-Australian Research on a Difficult Legacy: Colonial Collections of Indigenous Human Remains in German Museums and Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Paul Turnbull A Chain of Ponds: On German and Australian Artistic Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson Popular Comedy as Transnational Intervention: Contemporary Muslimness on Screen in Germany and Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Benjamin Nickl Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 221 Editors and Contributors About the Editors BenjaminNicklisassistantprofessoroftransnationalculturestudiesatTheUniversityofSydney. HereceivedhisPhDinGermancultureandpopularentertainmentstudiesfromtheUniversityof Melbournein2016.HiscurrentpublicationsfocusonissuesofTurkishGermancultureandthe representation of transnational Muslim minority populations in Western non-Muslim majority societies. IrinaHerrschnerhasrecentlysubmittedherPhDoncontemporaryculturaldiplomacy.Sheisa teachingassociateintheFacultyofArtsattheUniversityofMelbourneandatMonashUniversity and she also lectures in the area of tourism studies at Swinburne University. Her research and forthcoming publications focus on cultural diplomacy, cinematic diplomacy and other forms of globalmobility. ElżbietaM.Goździak isresearchprofessorattheInstitutefortheStudyofInternationalMigration (ISIM)atGeorgetownUniversity.IntheFallof2016sheservedastheGeorgeSorosVisitingChairin Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Formerly, she was Editor-in-ChiefofInternationalMigration.Herresearchagendafocusesonrefugeeandimmigrant integration,globalhealthandhumanitarianism,childmigration,andhumantrafficking. Contributors Stuart Braun isanAustralianjournalist, writer andhistorianwhohasbeenbased in Berlin since 2009. His most recent essays and journalism explore society and cultureinBerlinandhaveappearedinTheGuardian,LeMondeDiplomatique,The Saturday Paper, and Deutsche Welle. His non-fiction book, City of Exiles: Berlin from the Outside In was published by Noctua Press in 2015 and recounts Berlin’s evolutionasasanctuaryforartists,radicalsandrefugeesfromaroundtheworld.He alsoproducessocialhistorydocumentariesforABCRadioNationalwhichfocuson urban Aboriginal communities in Melbourne. Esther Doecke is a research fellow at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems at Victoria University. She is engaged in international ix
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