DAAD Australia Information Centre Sydney Rundbrief 25 Juni 2011

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DAAD Australia
Information Centre Sydney
Rundbrief 25
Juni 2011
Dear alumna, dear alumnus, dear friend of the DAAD,
Welcome to the 25th edition of the DAAD Australia newsletter!
Willkommen zur 25. Ausgabe des DAAD Australien-Rundbriefs!
"Nothing is permanent except change", said Diogenes Laërtius in the 3rd century BC. Besides the wisdom in this
sentence it is a good example that there always are great fitting quotes at hand to introduce one’s own agenda. In this
case we have a number of changes to announce in this newsletter. Some of them concern DAAD representation in
Australia; others have been introduced in Germany to make the country more welcoming to foreign students and
researchers; amongst the latter are improvements in the recognition of foreign degrees as well as improved residency
permits. You will find more information in this newsletter.
In brief:
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Changes at DAAD in Australia
Now on our website: Information for German students and researchers
Apply now for our DAAD Hochschul-Winterkurs and Encounter Europe scholarships!
RISE 2012 Results
Former DAAD Secretary General Dr. Christian Bode key note speaker at the AC21 International Forum in
Adelaide, 12-14 June
DAAD Vice President Mukherjee to visit Australia in September
Numbers of Australian students enrolled in German Studies
Improvements for foreigners moving to and Germans returning to Germany:
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Rückkehrförderung für deutsche WissenschaftlerInnen
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Anerkennungsgesetz tritt am 1. April in Kraft – Start von Informationsportal und Hotline
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Residency improvements for foreigners
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Info brochure on gainful employment in Germany available
Discover the EU Centres at three Australian universities
Deutsche Rechtsanwälte in Sydney
Alumni News – Events and Publications
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Alumnus Aidan Byrne new CEO of the ARC
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Hirschfeld-Mack Professor Anna Haebich
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Past Mentoring, Research Ambassadors and Alumni Meetings on 31 March/1 April
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Become a member of RAMP.au - become a research ambassador, a mentor or mentee!
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Are you already a member of the alumni association?
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DAAD Alumni Portal on social media
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Our regional alumni representatives
By the way …
We’d love to hear your feedback and comments on all aspects of the newsletter!
Enjoy!
Ahil,
Elisabeth
& Andreas
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DAAD Australien-Rundbrief - 2 DAAD Information Centre Sydney, May 2011
Changes at DAAD Sydney
My dear friends, colleagues, partners – after 6 ½ years,
the end of my contract and of my time in Australia is
close. I will be leaving my two positions as director of the
DAAD Information Centre Sydney and as lecturer at the
German Department of the University of Sydney at the
end of June. While this is sad news, I also believe that
every change generates fresh ideas and new
approaches, and I am very confident that I'll be leaving
you in the very best hands: Jörn Hausner will be my
successor from July onwards. Please find below a brief
greeting that he kindly sent us for our newsletter. In the
meantime, I would like to thank you all for the wonderful
and enriching experience of working with you. I already
know that I will miss all of you, my jobs, and our life in
Australia. At the same time, I am looking forward to new
challenges for me and my whole family at the Schloss
Schule Salem, close to Lake Constance in Southern
Germany.
I also would like to thank you for the support with which I
am sure you will welcome Joern and make his first
weeks and months easier.
G’Day/ Liebe LeserInnen,
gern nehme ich die Einladung von
Herrn Dr. Andreas Jäger an, mich
in
dem
letzten
von
ihm
herausgegebenen Newsletter als
sein Nachfolger vorzustellen. In gut
sechs Wochen schon beginnt für
mich das Abenteuer Australien und
damit
vor
allem
die
Herausforderung,
seine
erfolgreiche Arbeit im besten Sinne
fortzusetzen und auch weiter zu führen. Wie viel
dazugehört, in Andreas’ Fußstapfen zu treten, können
die LeserInnen dieses Newsletter anhand der
Bandbreite der regelmäßig verhandelten Themen u.U.
noch besser ermessen als ich im Moment.
Zu meiner Person: Ich habe in Leipzig am Herder-Institut
DaF studiert und war fünf Jahre in Chambéry als DAADLektor tätig. Nach meiner Rückkehr nach Berlin habe ich
in einem Austauschprogramm der FU-Berlin als DaFKoordinator gearbeitet und mich in Neukölln im Rahmen
von sozialpädagogischer Jugendarbeit engagiert.
Ich freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit mit meinen
KollegInnen der University of Sydney, mit der Crew des
IC-Büros, mit meinen DAAD-KollegInnen in Adelaide
und Melbourne sowie allen anderen Multiplikatoren und
Mittlern.
Sonnige Grüße in alle Richtungen aus einem
überraschend hochsommerlichen Berlin und auf sehr
bald,
Ihr Jörn Hausner
I'm happy to accept Andreas' invitation to introduce
myself in this newsletter. In about six weeks, my
adventure in Australia and the challenge of continuing
Andreas' successful work will begin. Considering the
large spectrum of topics and issues that are regularly
featured in this newsletter, you will probably have an
even better idea of what this entails than I currently do.
But let me introduce myself: I studied DaF (Deutsch als
Fremdsprache, German as a Foreign Language) in
Leipzig and then spent five years in Chambéry as DAAD
lecturer. After my return to Berlin, I served as DaF
coordinator for an FU Berlin exchange programme and
was also involved in youth social work.
I look forward to working with my colleagues at the
University of Sydney, the IC team in Sydney and my
DAAD colleagues in Adelaide and Melbourne as well as
all the other advocates, alumni and more.
With best regards from the surprisingly warm and
summery city of Berlin,
Jörn Hausner
Thanks, Jörn, I wish you all the best down under!
You might have read with surprise that Joern addressed
a DAAD colleague in Adelaide – this is very exciting
news indeed! In addition to Melbourne University, where
our lovely and energetic Tina Stubenrauch works as
DAAD lecturer, and Sydney University, the German
Department at the University of Adelaide will get a DAAD
lecturer, Stefan Hajduk, who will introduce himself in our
next newsletter. Meanwhile, we have some biographical
information for you:
Dr Stefan Hajduk studied German Studies, Philosophy
and Theatre Studies in Frankfurt, Munich, Rome, Naples
and Baltimore. After gaining his PhD at Humboldt
University, Berlin, in 1998, Stefan worked as a lecturer at
the University of Poona (India) and the University of
Limerick (Ireland). His main focus is on German
literature from the 18th to the 21st century; apart from
pulications on Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Fontane and
others, Stefan has also published a book on Robert
Musil (Die Figur des Erhabenen. Robert Musils
ästhetische Transgression der Moderne; Würzburg
2000). His current research deals with the aesthetics
and poetics of Stimmung ("mood" or "atmosphere") since
Goethe's times.
Stefan, all the best from us all!
Andreas and the DAAD team Australia
G’Day/ Dear readers,
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Now on our website: Information for German
students and researchers
As this is something we've been frequently asked in the
past, we have now put together some information for
Germans wanting to study or do research in Australia as
well as information for German researchers wanting to
return to Germany permanently. You will find all this and
more on our website:
http://ic.daad.de/sydney/StipendienfuerDeutsche.htm
Apply now for our DAAD Hochschul-Winterkurs
and Encounter Europe scholarships!
Winterkurs
In co-operation with the universities of Duisburg-Essen,
Freiburg, Leipzig and the IIK Duesseldorf, the DAAD is
once again offering scholarships to participate in a sixweek "Deutschlandkundlicher Winterkurs in January and
February 2013. The programme is designed for
bachelor, master and PhD students with a sound
knowledge of German (at least B1, preferably B2) and
some background in German Studies who are interested
in improving their language skills and understanding of
contemporary affairs and aiming for further (p/g) studies
in Germany.
The programme includes a course of six weeks (German
language, German literature and Modern Cultural
Studies of Germany) including study trips.
For more information and an application pack, please
visit http://ic.daad.de/sydney/winterkurs.htm.
Encounter Europe
In co-operation with
the ASKO Europa Stiftung (AES) and other renowned
partners in Germany and Australia, the DAAD is once
again offering scholarships for a two-week course
dealing with a variety of issues regarding the European
Union. Two weeks full of exciting opportunities for
students – from the fields of law, politics, international
relations, European studies or similar subjects – wanting
to improve their understanding of contemporary
European affairs and legislative regulations, organised
by the European Academy Otzenhausen, the University
of New England and the DAAD.
The course will be held in English. The programme
consists of a course on European affairs as well as study
trips to Trier, Luxembourg (European Court of Justice,
city), Strasbourg (European Parliament, European Court
of Human Rights, city with Christmas market), and
Germany’s former capital, Bonn (visiting the DAAD). For
more
information,
please
visit
http://ic.daad.de/sydney/encounter%20europe.htm
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RISE 2012 – Results
In addition to the first round, the second round of the
new DAAD RISE research internship programme has
been a resounding success: 241 German bachelor
students (2011: 247) were selected for internship
positions in 28 countries across the world (2011: 22).
Even though numbers were slightly lower than for the
first round, with a total of 557 internship offers (2011:
643) for which 373 applications were received (2011:
408). Australia ranked 3rd after the USA and Canada,
with 150 applications received for 86 offers. In the end,
43 students were successful in gaining a scholarship for
Australia.
Most of the students, of which 120 were female and 121
male, are studying biology or physics, with engineering,
earth sciences and chemistry featuring as well.
The next RISE round will start later this years, and offers
can be placed online from October 8 to November 25.
More information will be available from July or August
onwards.
Former DAAD Secretary General Dr. Christian
Bode key note speaker at the AC21
International Forum in Adelaide
Recently retired but
still more than active
DAAD
Secretary
General Dr. Christian
Bode, who was our
guest down under at
the Australia-wide DAAD Alumni Conference at Sydney
University in 2010, will follow the invitations of University
of Adelaide's Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor
James McWha, and of also recently retired Pro ViceChancellor (International) Professor John Taplin to be a
keynote speaker at the AC21 International Forum. The
title of his talk will be "(Higher)Education in times of
Globalisation - the universities' responsability". You’ll
find an abstract on our DAAD Sydney website.
Academic Consortium 21 is a consortium of 20
universities, including Freiburg, Strasbourg, Nagoya,
Peking, SJTU, Chulalongkorn, Adelaide, Sydney. Every
two years there is an AC21 International Forum. This
year, it is being held from 12-14 June, hosted by the
University
of
Adelaide
(see
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ac21conference/).
The
theme of this year's conference is "Maximising the
Benefits of Internationalisation". A spokesperson for the
university is anticipating an attendance of about 100-200
people.
When inviting Dr. Bode, Prof. Taplin was so thoughtful to
add that he trusts Christian Bode should be able to see
the Holland/Germany match on TV on 13 June over here
- an always important match rekindling decades of
intense soccer rivalry.
Dr Bode will also meet DAAD alumni and DAAD-AAvHF
research ambassadors I Adelaide.
DAAD Vice President Mukherjee to visit
Australia in September
The Group of Eight universities together with the
German Embassy and the ANU Centre for European
Studies are organising a talk by Professor Joybrato
Mukherjee, Vice-President of the DAAD and President of
the University of Gießen. The talk, entitled From
egalitarian to elite and back: Recent policy shifts in
higher education in Germany will be held at the ANU
Centre for European Studies, 1 Liversidge Street (Bldg.
67C) in Canberra on Tuesday, 11 September, 12pm1.30pm. Please RSVP to [email protected] by Friday
31 August 2012.
Professor Mukherjee was elected President of the
Justus Liebig University (JLU) in Gießen, Germany, in
December 2010. In January 2012 he took on the role of
Vice-President of the DAAD. At 39, Professor Mukherjee
is Germany’s youngest university
president.
Professor Mukherjee’s research
interests
include
computer
supported corpus linguistics and
English syntax. He is a member
of the International Graduate
Centre for the Study of Culture
and the Centre for Media and
Interactivity and participates in a
variety of international research
projects and collaborations.
He will discuss the significant change in the traditional
egalitarian approach to funding for higher education in
Germany made in 2006: The “Excellence Initiative”, a
competitive process based on peer review by
international experts, has resulted in a relatively small
number of institutions being singled out to receive large
grants. The aims of this policy include the improvement
of the global attractiveness and rankings of the
“excellent” universities, a sustainable structural change
in universities, the creation of thousands of high quality
jobs, developing the specialists, experts and executives
of tomorrow and improving the contribution of
universities to innovation in business and industry.
At the same time there has been a significant
government emphasis on increasing access to higher
education for those who have been under-represented at
universities in the past. According to recent OECD data,
Germany still has a relatively low proportion of university
graduates (29%) compared to Australia with almost
40%. Is Germany aiming for an elite system or an
egalitarian one and can both be achieved simultaneously
with the right policies in place?
The Canberra event is co-hosted by the Embassy of the
Federal Republic of Germany as part of its Science
Circle lecture series. The Science Circle is a joint
initiative of the German embassy in Canberra and the
Australian embassy in Berlin to promote mutual
understanding of each country's research landscape,
encourage discussion and through that provide a base
for future collaboration.
The Group of Eight universities have a long standing
agreement with the DAAD. From 2007 to 2012 the two
organisations have provided over A$ 5 million to
research exchange between our two countries.
The ANU Centre for European Studies is an initiative
involving four ANU Colleges (Arts and Social Sciences,
Law, Business and Economics and Asia and the Pacific).
Professor Mukherjee is also invited to give his talk on
shifts in the German higher education landscape at the
University of Melbourne. All alumni are invited to listen
to and meet him afterwards at our alumni reception, on
24 September from 5-7pm. We will send out an
invitation with the location. Together with our DAAD and
AAvHF research ambassadors we also will organise an
information talk for graduates and researchers about
opportunities for research collaboration with Germany
and on our mentoring program for graduates, PhD
candidates and young postdocs from 3 to 4pm followed
by networking with refreshments (Kaffee und Kuchen)
from 4 to 5pm, in the wonderful Griffin Gallery.
Please also keep an eye on our website, Facebook
page, Twitter feed or our next newsletter for more
details!
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Numbers of Australian students enrolled in
German Studies
If you have been following the statistics in recent years,
you might have got the impression that learning and
studying German is in a continuous decline. In many
countries this is true, often because the interest in
German waned in the years after the fall of the Berlin
wall and because German has become just one of a
bigger group of competing languages.
In addition, German as a language taught in secondary
schools experienced a certain downturn in Australia.
However, things are different at the university level! A
quick survey I undertook recently indicated a total of
2,923 students of German enrolled at one of 16
Australian universities (1st semester 2012). This means
that numbers are actually pretty stable (cf. recent StaDaf
resp. Netzwerk Deutsch surveys or University of
Melbourne’s Dr. Leo Kretzenbacher's overview in GFL
2/2011).
All Go8 universities as well as MQU, UTAS, USQ, UTS,
UNE and Newcastle University (the latter using their own
tutors and UNE resources otherwise) offer German
Studies or at least a German program. A similar program
at JCU, however, was cancelled and is currently being
phased out. There are some other universities
participating at the existing German programs via cross
enrolments. RMIT uses a different model, offering the
first 2 stages of a beginners' language course taught by
Goethe-Institut tutors.
Improvements for foreigners moving to and for
Germans returning to Germany
There have been some recent improvements for
foreigners wanting to study or work in Germany as well
as for German academics interested in returning to their
home country. Please see the following four articles for
more information!
Rückkehrförderung für deutsche
WissenschaftlerInnen
Seit Mitte 2009 kann der DAAD aus Mitteln des
Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung deutsche WissenschaftlerInnen im Ausland bei der beruflichen Wiedereingliederung in Deutschland unterstützen.
Bewerbungsberechtigt sind deutsche DoktorandInnen
einer ausländischen Hochschule in der Endphase ihrer
Promotion (voraussichtlicher Abschluss der Promotion
innerhalb der nächsten 12 Monate), PostdoktorandInnen
und erfahrene WissenschaftlerInnen im Ausland, die
nach einer Mobilitätsphase ihre wissenschaftliche
Karriere in Deutschland fortsetzen möchten. Darüber
hinaus sollen deutsche WissenschaftlerInnen, die im
Ausland promoviert haben, in ihrem Bemühen
unterstützt werden, Kontakte und wissenschaftliche Kooperationen mit deutschen Hochschulen einzugehen.
Hierbei werden zwei voneinander unabhängige Fördermaßnahmen angeboten: Fahrtkostenzuschüsse für
Vorstellungsgespräche oder Fachvorträge in Deutschland sowie bis zu sechsmonatige Stipendien.
Weitere
Informationen
erhalten
Sie
unter
www.daad.de/rueckgewinnung und bei Renata Dujmović
([email protected]).
Anerkennungsgesetz tritt am 1. April in Kraft –
Start von Informationsportal und Hotline
Viele Deutsche und
nach
Deutschland
Zugewanderte haben
im Ausland berufliche Qualifikationen
und Abschlüsse erworben, die auf dem
deutschen Arbeitsmarkt
dringend
Friedrich Hubert Esser (Präsident des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung, BIBB), Bundesbildungsministerin Annette Schavan und
Manfred Schmidt (Präsident des Bundesamts
für Migration und Flüchtlinge, BAMF)
© Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler
gebraucht werden. Bisher konnten sie diese
Qualifikationen in Deutschland aber oft nicht optimal
verwerten, weil Bewertungsverfahren und Bewertungsmaßstäbe fehlten oder die Regelun-gen zur Anerkennung von im Ausland erworbe-nen Abschlüssen und
Qualifikationen unzureichend und wenig einheitlich war.
Um diese Situation zu verbessern, trat am 1. April 2012
das so genannte Anerkennungsgesetz in Kraft. Das
Gesetz schafft erstmals einen Rechtsanspruch auf ein
Verfahren zur Anerkennung ausländischer Berufsqualifikationen – und zwar für alle, unabhängig vom
Herkunftsland, und innerhalb von drei Monaten nach
Einreichen der erforderlichen Papiere. „Durch dieses
Gesetz darf beispielsweise ein hochqualifizierter Arzt
aus dem Ausland endlich auch als Arzt arbeiten – und
muss nicht mehr länger Taxi fahren“, sagte Bundesbildungsministerin Annette Schavan. „Für mich ist das eine
Frage der Gerechtigkeit und des Respekts vor der
Qualifikation eines Menschen“. Zugleich sei die
Anerkennung
im
Ausland
erworbener
Berufsqualifikationen ein Baustein bei der Behebung des
Fachkräftemangels.
Zum neuen Gesetz gibt es ein Informationsportal und
eine Telefon-Hotline. Hier kann man erfahren, welche
Papiere eingereicht werden müssen und wohin man sich
konkret wenden muss. Das Portal wird vom Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB) im Auftrag des
Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
betrieben.
Ergänzend zum Anerkennungsportal schaltet das
Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) eine
Telefon-Hotline frei, die für Interessierte aus dem In- und
Ausland zugänglich ist. Anrufer erhalten hier in
deutscher und englischer Sprache Auskunft über die
einzelnen Schritte und Voraussetzungen der beruflichen
Anerkennung. Die Hotline ist montags bis freitags von 9
bis 15 Uhr unter der Nummer +49 (0)30-1815-1111
erreichbar.
Weitere Informationen:
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http://www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de/html/en/32.php
http://www.bmbf.bund.de/de/15644.php
www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de
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Residency improvements for foreign students,
graduates, scientists and researchers
On 27 April 2012, Germany’s federal parliament
(Bundestag) passed the Act Implementing the EU
Directive on Entry and Residence of Highly Qualified
Workers. The scope of this law exceeds EU targets and
presents foreign students, scientists and researchers
with new opportunities in Germany by making a number
of important changes to residency rights in Germany.
For example, it will allow foreign students casual work on
120 instead of previously 90 days per year; after
graduation, they will be allowed to stay in Germany for
18 instead of 12 months to seek qualified employment.
They may work without time
limits during this time and will
no longer need to seek the
approval of the German
Federal Employment Agency
(Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA). In addition, they will be
eligible for permanent residency after only two years.
For foreign academics seeking employment, a residency
permit for up to 6 months will be introduced. Anyone with
an employment contract as an academic or qualified
professional with a minimum salary of around €44,800
(or around €35,000 for certain occupations) may work in
Germany for up to 4 years using the ''Blue Card''. Blue
Card holders will already be eligible for permanent
residency after 2 to 3 years. Family members of foreign
skilled workers will also find it easier to take up
employment, for example by no longer requiring BA
approval.
In addition to these changes, the maximum stay for
students will be extended to 10 years for a course of
studies including study preparation, with an additional
five years for a PhD.
The DAAD welcomes the new legislation which still
requires the approval of the 2nd house of Germany’s
federal parliament (Bundesrat).
Info brochure on gainful employment in
Germany available
Many of our scholarship applicants as well as others
interested in living in Germany are wondering about
gainful employment in Germany: Will I be allowed to
work? Are there any restrictions? Do I need a special
type of visa?
You will now find answers to these and other questions
around working in Germany in a new DAAD leaflet,
available
from
our
website
(http://ic.daad.de/sydney/faq.htm#10) – or simply email
us at [email protected].
Discover the EU Centres at three Australian
universities
Did you know that three Australian universities feature
"EU Centres" with talks, panel discussions and more, all
open to the public and usually for free? Check out the
links for more information! We also post many of their
events on our Facebook page – "like" us if you don't
want to miss out!
European Union (EU) Centre at RMIT
The European Union (EU) Centre at RMIT University
was established in January 2010 to promote a better
understanding of the EU and EU-Australia relations. The
Centre provides a focal point for teaching, research and
outreach activities with the EU, Australia and the Asia
Pacific Region. It acts as an advocate for the EU in the
region and facilitates the dissemination of information
and knowledge from academia to industry and the
community at large. The European Union Centre at
RMIT is funded through a grant from the European
Union and RMIT University.
http://www.rmit.edu.au/eucentre
ANU Centre for European Studies
ANUCES is an initiative involving four ANU Colleges
(Arts and Social Sciences, Law, Business and
Economics and Asia and the Pacific). It focuses the
talents of hundreds of researchers, teachers and
students working on Europe on a single site. Its purpose
is to create synergies, promote interdisciplinary dialogue,
and generate collaborative research
projects at home and abroad.
The ANU Centre for European Studies
takes over the role formerly played by
the National Europe Centre. It is funded
jointly by the ANU and the European
Commission.
http://ces.anu.edu.au/
Monash European and EU Centre
The Monash European and EU Centre is a joint
undertaking by the European Commission of the
European Union (EU) and Monash University, led by the
Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics and Law. It
provides teaching, research and outreach on Europe
and the EU. The Centre’s courses and units offer the
opportunity to study in Europe and provide a portal to
facilitate European and EU related activities across
Monash University.
http://www.monash.edu.au/europecentre/
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Deutsche Rechtsanwälte in Sydney
Im März 2010 fand in
den
Räumen
des
Goethe-Instituts Sydney
ein gemeinsamer Umtrunk des DAAD und der
Deutsch-AustralischPazifischen Juristenvereinigung e.V. (DAPJV –
http://www.dapjv.com)
statt.
Eines
der
Vorstandsmitglieder der DAPJV ist Michael Kobras, der
Partner der Kanzlei Schweizer Kobras ist. Schweizer
Kobras ist die einzige Kanzlei in Sydney mit
Rechtsanwälten, die in Australien, Deutschland und der
Schweiz zugelassen sind.
Sowohl Michael Kobras als auch Norbert Schweizer, der
Gründer der Kanzlei, sind australische Fachanwälte für
Wirtschaftsrecht („accredited specialist – business law“)
und australische Notare („public notary“), wobei Norbert
Schweizer über eine mehr als 30jährige Berufserfahrung
auf den Gebieten des Wirtschafts- und Erbrechts
verfügt. Michael Kobras ist darüber hinaus staatlich
zugelassener
Einwanderungsberater
(„registered
migration agent“). Er wurde bereits mehrmals von
australischen Gerichten als Sachverständiger für
deutsches Recht beauftragt.
Beide Partner, die meisten der angestellten Anwälte und
fast alle anderen Mitarbeiter sprechen sowohl Deutsch
als auch Englisch, und die Kanzlei ist Vertrauensanwalt
des deutschen Generalkonsulats Sydney, des österreichischen Generalkonsulats Sydney, der schweizerischen Botschaft Canberra und des schweizerischen
Generalkonsulats Sydney. Neben zahlreichen Wirtschaftsunternehmen gehören zu den Mandanten auch
das Goethe-Institut Sydney, die German International
School Sydney und der deutsch-australische Hilfsverein.
Die Kanzlei befindet sich im Geschäftsviertel im Herzen
von Sydney und bietet sowohl Unternehmen als auch
Privatpersonen eine umfassende Beratung in nahezu
allen Bereichen des deutschen, australischen und
schweizerischen Zivilrechts an. So ist die Kanzlei
insbesondere deutschen, österreichischen und schweizerischen Unternehmen bei der Erschließung des
australischen Marktes behilflich, sei es durch den
Abschluss von Verträgen mit australischen Vertriebspartnern, die Eröffnung einer australischen Zweigniederlassung oder die Gründung einer australischen
Tochtergesellschaft.
Privatpersonen nehmen die Dienste der Kanzlei überwiegend im Erbrecht in Anspruch. Wenn sowohl in
Australien als auch in Deutschland oder andernorts
Vermögenswerte vorhanden sind, können Vorsorgevollmachten und letztwillige Verfügungen erstellt werden,
die in allen beteiligten Ländern als rechtsgültig
anerkannt werden. Nur so ist sichergestellt, dass im
Falle einer ernsthaften Erkrankung und nach dem Tode
alle persönlichen Wünsche zur Geltung kommen. Ferner
unterstützt die Kanzlei Erben, Testamentsvollstrecker
und Nachlasspfleger bei der Nachlassabwicklung.
Daneben sind die Anwälte bei Schweizer Kobras beim
Kauf oder Verkauf von Immobilien und beim Einzug von
Forderungen bis hin zur Führung von Prozessen tätig.
Der DAAD und der australische Alumniverband sind
Schweizer Kobras sehr dankbar für die ehrenamtliche
fundierte und sehr nette Unterstützung und Beratung bei
der Formung des australischen DAAD-Alumniverbands.
Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an:
Schweizer Kobras
Level 5 / 23-25 O'Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Telefon: +61 2 9223 9399, Telefax: +61 2 9223 4729
http://www.schweizer.com.au – [email protected]
Alumni News – Events and Publications
Alumnus Aidan Byrne new CEO of the ARC
DAAD Alumnus Professor Aidan Byrne was recently
appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of the
Australian Research Council (ARC). The ARC, a
government organisation, provides advice to the
Government on research matters and manages $879
million of the Australian Government’s investment in
high-quality research as well as the internationallyrecognised Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
research evaluation exercise.
“Professor Byrne’s appointment will ensure that
Australia continues to be a leading example of an
innovative and robust science and research system,”
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and
Research, Senator Chris Evans, said. “Professor Byrne
is a distinguished leader in research and research
management at the Australian National University and
has been for 20 years. He brings to the ARC a wealth of
industry knowledge and expertise particularly in Nuclear
Physics, Physical and Mathematical Sciences as well as
Engineering.”
Professor Byrne currently serves as Dean of Science at
the ANU and as Director of the ANU College of Physical
and Mathematical Science. He will commence as CEO
on Monday, 23 July. ARC Executive General Manager
Ms Leanne Harvey will continue to act as CEO until this
time.
Former CEO Professor Margaret Sheil left the ARC last
month after almost five years. “I thank Professor Sheil
for her tremendous stewardship of the ARC since 2007
and wish her all the best in her new position as Provost
of the University of Melbourne,” Senator Evans said.
DAAD Australia welcomes this appointment and would
like to extend their heartfelt congratulations to Professor
Byrne who is a von Humboldt Fellow and alumnus of the
Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme of the
Go8 and DAAD.
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Hirschfeld-Mack
Professor
Anna Haebich
Since 2008, the Institute for English Philology at the FU
Berlin has featured the Visiting Hirschfeld-Mack
Professor programme, supported by the institute, the
DAAD and the Australian embassy in Berlin. Renowned
academics will be awarded a guest professorship to
further academic exchange between Australia and
Germany. It is named after Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
(born 1893 in Frankfurt, died 1965 in Sydney), a member
of the Bauhaus movement, who was deported to
Australia as an "enemy alien" in 1940. He later became
the "Head of Art" at the renowned Geelong Grammar
School, influencing post-war art and design in Australia.
Professor Anna Haebich, John Curtin Distinguished
Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for
Human Rights Education, Curtin University, also serves
as the Vice President of the Australian Academy of
Humanities and visited Berlin in 2011 as part of the
Hirschfeld Mack programme. She kindly agreed to share
her experiences with us:
In April 2011 I started a four month teaching semester as
the Visiting Hirschfeld Mack Professor in the Anglistik
Department at Freie Universität in Berlin. Previous
lecturers were specialists in Australian literature and I
was the first historian. With my background in Australian
history, Indigenous studies and history in art and
museums I was able to add new perspectives to
students’ reading of Australian literature. The students
weren’t the only ones learning! The experience was a
huge learning curve for me: the formality of German
universities, finding my way around Berlin, meeting new
people and of course trying to speak auf Deutsch. In my
spare time I travelled to conferences in Koeln and
Brussels, did family research at Dachau and in Poland
and developed research plans with German colleagues.
The experience of working with students at Freie who
come from all around the world was really inspiring and
made me realise how different and intriguing your own
history can be for others.
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Mentoring, Research Ambassadors and Alumni
Meetings on 31 March / 1 April
The
DAAD-AAvHF-Research
Ambassadors
and
Mentoring
Programme turned one in April – a
good reason to look back and reflect
as well as make plans for the future!
In cooperation with the AAvHF
(Australian Association of von
Humboldt Fellows), a meeting of all
mentors / mentees / DAAD
Research Ambassadors was held on
Saturday, 31 March 2012. This event
aimed at three different groups of
experts
in
German-Australian
research exchange, namely DAAD alumni, AAvH fellows
and German lecturers and professors at Australian
universities. From these groups, we have recruited about
50 "Research Ambassadors", with some of them acting
as mentors as well. We also have a group of young, upand-coming scientists who are interested in a mentee
opportunity. So far, we have matched up ten mentormentee pairings, with more to come! If you are
interested, please email us: [email protected]!
We will continue to match up mentees and mentors.
Apart from getting mentors and mentees together and
providing them with some background for their next
steps, the event aimed at empowering and enabling all
these individuals to act independently as Research
Ambassadors, using their position to inform students and
researchers in Australia about study exchange and
opportunities for research collaborations in Germany.
The DAAD is happy to announce that we can now
provide some small funds to make it possible for our
Research Ambassadors to organise small information
gatherings at their university or research institution and
e.g. pay for some finger food or cappuccinos.
Two overseas guests enriched our
event: Dr Ulla Toyka, head of our
regional
department
at
DAAD
headquarters in Bonn, and Peter
Kerrigan, deputy director of the
DAAD’s New York office and director
of marketing and development for the
DAAD in North America.
The exchange of experiences and
ideas with the DAAD offices in New
York, Toronto and San Francisco has been vivid for
some time, because in some respects,
Australia presents similar conditions to
North America, such as a highly
developed country with a corresponding
education market as well as English as a
native language. The DAAD in North
America
already
has
plenty
of
experience
with
the
Research
Ambassadors Program that was actually
developed in New York, thanks to Peter
Kerrigan.
About 40 Research Ambassadors and speakers
attended the meeting, among them A/Prof. Herman
Beyersdorf, President of the Australian DAAD Alumni
Association, as well as A/Prof. Kay Double, acting
representative of the Australian Association of von
Humboldt Fellows, AvH Ambassador to Australia and
one of the main driving forces of the mentoring program.
The intensive schedule was aimed at developing a joint
programme for all Research Ambassadors and involved
discussions about the North American program,
Germany
as
a
research
destination,
the
internationalisation of the German university landscape
including the excellence initiative and a comparison with
Australia, as well as the principles and programmes of
the DAAD and the AvH.
Mentoring programme - results
Attending mentors and mentees agreed on
- the importance of face-to-face meetings, particularly at
the beginning of the mentoring process;
- the need for more events that bring people together to
exchange views and experiences;
- the need for an annual meeting (alternating between
Melbourne and Sydney, perhaps later expanding to
other cities) and some teleconferences throughout the
year to formalise the programme;
- to inform newly awarded DAAD scholarship holders
immediately about the scheme in order to recruit more
mentees;
- that providing an online list of the profiles of the
mentors/mentees would be instrumental. This will also
assist to see densities of people who could perhaps
work together in a group.
- that a person will need to run the website;
- the need to expand the current management
committee of Andreas and Kay.
The following mentors, mentees and DAAD reps put up
their hands:
• Ana Beaumont, Macquarie University – (website)
moderator;
• Patsie Polly, UNSW – coordinator;
• Claudia Möller, Macquarie University – coordinator;
• Tina Stubenrauch, Melbourne – coordinator;
• Trevor Finlayson, AAvHF secretary – will scan through
the list of Humboldt members;
• Kay Double – AAvHF, AvH;
• Andreas Jäger and replacement Jörn Hausner –
DAAD.
Founding of RAMP.au
meeting could be held following the AvH Symposium in
October 2013 in Melbourne.
Alumni Meeting
The
Sunday
was
reserved for the DAAD
alumni, many of whom
had participated on
Saturday too. Board
members,
regional
alumni representatives
Geoff See, Chrischona Schmidt,
and
interested
Alexander Daniel, Herman Beyersdorf
members including Dr.
Toyka sacrificed their early Sunday morning to attend
the AGM of the Australian DAAD Alumni Association at
9am. After reports from chair, secretary, treasurer and
regional reps the association’s executive was elected for
the period of the next 2 years. There were no further
nominees than the current incumbents which shows the
great satisfaction with their jobs. Re-elected are Herman
Beyersdorf as Chair, Alexander Daniel as Deputy Chair,
Geoff See as Secretary and Chrischona Schmidt as
Treasurer. Elected as further executive members, also
representing the different local alumni groups were:
Mary Hurwood, Claudia Moeller, Erik Beyersdorf, Ric
Lowe, Anna Haebich, Elke Stracke and Leah Gerber. I’m
sure all alumni will join me in congratulating the
executive committee and in thanking them for their great
work building up the alumni association.
After intense discussions of the
mentoring programme in the
framework of the research
ambassadors’ scheme during
the first part of the afternoon,
RAMP.au was founded. The
acronym stands for Research
Ambassadors and Mentoring
Programme
Australia.
An
Initiative of DAAD and AAvHF. It
was also decided that regional
Michael Abicht - die gute Seele
core groups should be started
des Goethe-Instituts
everywhere on the continent
and offer ten smaller-scale local information events by
the end of 2012. The intention is also to involve German
OrtslektorInnen, non-permanent German lecturers and
researchers in Australia as well as the offices of the
DVCs (International and/or Research). Dr Toyka has
already conducted initial talks and discussions on the
issue during her visits to Adelaide and Melbourne.
There were more discussions, eg. on the desire to
include professional activities in the associations
meeting and activities, and reduce the academic
emphasis, which was not appropriate for alumni who had
moved into careers outside the education sector, on
providing the possibility of a German-language
environment for members, and the need for the
association to advertise its activities either by publishing
its own newsletter or through the DAAD newsletter.
Please see the minutes of the 2012 AGM on the alumni
sector of our DAAD Sydney website.
Coordinators
As there are many DAAD Alumni Clubs worldwide (North
America 3, Central America 5, South America 38, Asia
39, Europe 50), it's important to apply for funding as
early as possible as budgets are limited.
Coordinator meetings and a public information talk are
being
planned
in
connection
with
Professor Mukherjee's
visit to Melbourne on
September 24. A larger
After the old and then new president then welcomed the
guests, Dr Toyka spoke about DAAD alumni networks
in the Asia-Pacific region and in Germany, giving a lot
of excellent advice to the rather new DAAD alumni
formation. Drawing from years of experience especially
in Japan (where the first alumni club was founded in
1985), Dr Toyka emphasised that headquarters in Bonn
are there to help and always open to suggestions,
questions, plans etc.
Dr Toyka also presented special alumni services such as
the DAAD Magazine, which provides information on
developments and trends in higher education, science
and research in Germany as well as information on the
DAAD’s support activities and programmes. The
magazine is free of charge for international alumni and
current scholarship holders. There's also an Alumni
Internet Platform offering information for alumni and
scholarship holders, including further education, job
information and other services. Alumni can also open
their own email account and set up their own homepage.
The DAAD Alumni Calendar offers information about
events in Germany and worldwide, organised
chronologically as well as by region. Please remember
to put in your dates and give an outline of events as this
calendar is where for example travelling alumni will look
for contacts and events!
If you're an alumnus/alumna and interested in being
connected, check out the following:
 Register yourself for the alumni forum and email
account;
 Update your personal details;
 Inform other alumni about the activities of the
DAAD;
 Keep contact with DAAD lecturers or the DAAD
office;
 Inform yourself about events (alumni calendar);
 Check the alumni portal Germany –
www.alumniportal-deutschland.org;
Later, Peter R Kerrigan spoke about DAAD alumni
networks in North America. Even though there are
differences between Australia, the United States and
Canada, there are also similarities, so it makes sense to
take a closer look. The DAAD alumni association in
North America recently celebrated its 15th birthday. The
network is set up as a non-profit organisation and
accepts not only DAAD alumni, but all Germany alumni.
It has 600 active members in their database. There's a
newsletter, networking events, a website, a lot of social
media activities, fundraisers etc. Despite the abundance
of alumni associations in the US, the DAAD alumni are
united by a sense of identity and of giving back.
The main schemes in North America are the DAAD
Young Ambassadors and the Research Ambassadors.
The Young Ambassadors are newly returned
undergraduate students, having been sponsored through
different organisations, not only the DAAD, who are
willing to market and represent Germany on campus.
They have spent a semester or year abroad. They are
phenomenal in outreach and have become the most
active members of our alumni associations. The
Research Ambassadors are people who are at the PhD
level or above who have had at least a year of research
experience in Germany and are also very active.
Later that day, H.E. Hans-Dieter Steinbach, ConsulGeneral of Germany, gave a talk about 60 Years of
Australian-German Relations, explaining how different
times were in 1952
when Australia decided
to re-establish relations with Germany. There were two
German states at the time, and diplomatic relations with
Australia were renewed nine months after the German
Foreign Ministry was re-established. In the sixty years
since 1952, Australia and Germany have come a long
way, sharing a set of common values, joining in
peacekeeping missions together, cooperating in disaster
relief operations and trying to tackle globalisation issues.
There is a lot of exchange between Germany and
Australia: Apart from tourism going both ways, more
than 750 German companies have offices in Australia,
creating more than 90,000 jobs. 350 university or
research institute co-operations exist between Australian
and German research units and universities.
In addition, both governments have agreed to intensify
their diplomatic relations and cooperation into a strategic
partnership.
In the afternoon, after a coffee with a perfect view from
Bondi Icebergs, young DAAD alumni presented short
talks about their recent experiences on collaborative
projects on an "academic walk" on the beautiful BondiBronte coastal trail.
- Denise Yu, who is a Research Officer with UNSW’s
Lowy
Cancer
Research
Centre, started with: Biology
of enzymes in ageing central
nervous systems.
- Claudia Möller, a Business Development Manager with the Logistics Development Team at Woolworths and PhD candidate
at Macquarie University,
followed
on
Driving
Innovation: How to make
environmental sustainability an active & integrated part
of today's business practices.
- Isabel Ender, a German
DAAD scholarship holder researching on the JCU Minke
Whale Project, ended the
walk along the sea fittingly with: Dwarf Minke Whales in
the Great Barrier Reef: a unique research experience…).
For me personally this was an unforgettable completion
of my collaboration with the DAAD alumni in Australia!
Thank you all so much!
worked or completed a course of advanced training in
Germany. The portal is also open to companies and
organisations as well as to foundations and institutions
of higher education.
By the way, many thanks to Wellett Potter and Tina
Stubenrauch for their notes of these 2 jam-packed days,
and to Ulla, Peter and Wellett for some very nice photos!
A unique combination of services with a connection to
Germany and an online community opens up entirely
new opportunities for maintaining contacts and networks.
Career opportunities, language services and both onand offline events complement the online community.
RAMP.au - Become a mentor or mentee!
You will find more information in the Alumniportal flyer.
While we have a number of fantastic mentors available,
we are still looking for more prospective mentees, so this
is your chance to connect with someone in your field
who can help you out with their experience and
knowledge and give you pointers for your career.
We are also looking for mentors, currently especially in
the area of law – please email us if you are interested in
mentoring a young, up-and-coming lawyer or law
student!
The DAAD Alumni Portal is now available across the
social media – why not take a look?





Facebook: www.facebook.com/alumniportal
Twitter: www.twitter.com/alumni_de
Youtube: www.youtube.com/alumniportal
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AlumniportalDeutschland-4026393?gid=4026393&trk=hb_side_g
Google+: www.gplus.to/alumniportaldeutschland
RAMP.au - Have you thought about becoming a
Research Ambassador?
If you are interested in passing on information on study
and research in Germany and helping to draw the
framework for a collaboration of someone in your
department, school or faculty, please consider to
become a DAAD-AAvHF research ambassador!
If you are interested and would like to get more
information, please give us a ring or drop us an email on
[email protected]!
We would ask you whom at your university we should
officially inform about your position on this scheme.
Usually this would involve the vice chancellor, the DVC
research, your dean and HOS. When sending these
official nominations we also would send you all
necessary information brochures and useful links to
obtain information at any time.
Are you already a member of the alumni
association?
The Australian DAAD Alumni Association keeps
growing, but it still needs more members! With a low
membership fee of $30 per annum and a concessional
fee of $20 for students, the unwaged and retirees, the
association would like to appeal to you to join as a
member.
back
DAAD Alumni Portal on social media
The Alumniportal Deutschland is a free, editorially
supported social online network connecting people from
all over the
world who
have
studied,
researched,
back
Our Regional Alumni Representatives
Adelaide
 Carolin Plewa, [email protected]
 Donna Nicholls, [email protected]
Armidale
 Herman Beyersdorf, [email protected]
Brisbane
 Mary Hurwood, [email protected]
 Chrischona Schmidt [email protected]
Canberra
 Alexander Daniel, [email protected]
Newcastle
 Geoff See, [email protected]
Northern Queensland
 Bobby Kannan Mathan, [email protected]
Perth
 Rebecca Meegan-Lowe, [email protected]
 Enid Sedgwick, [email protected]
 Ric Lowe, [email protected]
Melbourne
 Erik Beyersdorf, [email protected]
 Leah Gerber, [email protected]
Sydney
 Eva Heidhues, [email protected]
 Sandy Mihaljevic, [email protected]
 Claudia Möller, [email protected]
back
By the way …
All things German in Australia
This website has a collection of German services, shops
and societies – just search by region or category!
http://www.deutsche-im-ausland.org/adressen-imausland/address/australienozeanien/australien.html#id_
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There were 474,249 international students studying on a
student visa in Australia in 2011. A fall in international
student numbers in all other sectors except in the HE
sector contributed to a decrease of 9.5 per cent on 2010
figures. The HE sector recorded a slight increase (0.1%).
Nonetheless, the 2011 international student numbers
were still at about the 2008 levels.
Humboldt Rankings reveal Germany’s prime
locations for researchers from abroad
More information
The Humboldt Rankings, published on 20 April, reveal
which German universities and research institutions are
particularly popular with researchers from abroad. They
are based on the number of research stays in Germany
conducted by leading international academics and junior
researchers as fellows or award winners of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The five topranked institutions were Freie Universität Berlin (FU),
followed by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), the
Universities of Munich and Bonn, and TU München
(TUM).
ERASMUS feiert 25 Jahre
mit Rekordzahlen
To avoid statistical distortions resulting from the varying
sizes of the host institutions, the Humboldt Rankings
relate the number of stays to the number of
professorships at a university. Despite this weighting, the
highest-rated universities of Berlin, Munich and Bonn are
also amongst those registering the largest number of
research stays overall. The success of host institutions
that have been recognised as Excellence Universities is
also notable; six of these are amongst the top ten.
Humboldtians’ choices thus validate the large and
successful universities as well as the appeal of major
cities and smaller, attractive locations with a long
tradition, such as Heidelberg (ranked 6th) and Freiburg
(ranked 7th).
In addition to the overall list, rankings were also drawn
up for individual disciplines. In the humanities, the first
three places went to FU and HU Berlin and the
University of Freiburg. In the life sciences, FU Berlin
came first ahead of the University of Potsdam and TU
Kaiserslautern. In the natural sciences, the Universities
of Regensburg, Munich and Bielefeld were ranked
highest. The top 20 non-university research institutions,
which for the first time were also compiled using the
weighted system, were dominated by institutions in the
Max Planck Society, led by the Fritz Haber Institute in
Berlin and institutes in Heidelberg and Potsdam.
News from Kooperation International
Kooperation International is an initiative of the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research. You can
subscribe to their newsletter here.
International students in Australia 2011
Das ERASMUS-Programm
der Europäischen Union
feiert 2012 seinen 25.
Geburtstag. Und pünktlich
zum Jubiläum meldet der
DAAD neue Rekordzahlen: 2010/11 haben mehr als
25.000 Studierende aus Deutschland mit dem
ERASMUS-Programm in 30 anderen europäischen
Ländern einen Teil ihres Studiums absolviert. Dazu
kommen über 5.000 Studierende, die mit ERASMUS ein
Auslandspraktikum machen konnten. Mit insgesamt
30.274 geförderten Studierenden (1.420 mehr als im
Vorjahr) erreicht das Programm damit in Deutschland
einen neuen Höchststand.
Außerdem haben 3.000 deutsche Dozenten mit
ERASMUS an einer ausländischen Hochschule unterrichtet und fast 700 Hochschulvertreter nahmen an einer
Weiterbildungsmaßnahme im Ausland teil. ERASMUS
ist das weltweit bekannteste Mobilitätsprogramm der
Europäischen Union. Es ermöglicht Studierenden ein
Auslandsstudium und Praktika von drei bis zwölf
Monaten in bisher 31 Teilnahmeländern (27 EU-Länder
sowie Island, Liechtenstein, Norwegen und Türkei); nun
auch in Kroatien und in der Schweiz.
Zum Jubiläum erscheinen zwei Publikationen des
DAAD, die hier heruntergeladen werden können.
Best Student Cities in the World 2012
QS is proud to announce the first ever QS Best Student
Cities ranking. Based on a complex set of measures
taken from public information, surveys and data
submitted as part of the QS World University Rankings,
the results provide a new way of comparing the best
cities around the world in which to be a student.
Paris takes the top place, followed by London and
Boston. Melbourne made 4th place, Sydney 6th, Berlin
8th.
09 June - 16 Sep
in Kassel,
Germany
dOCUMENTA
(13)
just recently opened
to the public in
Museum Fridericianum, 2012,
Klinger © dOCUMENTA (13)
Foto:
Nils
Kassel, Germany, on June 9, 2012. For 100 days, over
150 artists from 55 countries and other participants from
around the world will gather and present artworks,
including sculpture, performance, installation, research,
archiving and curatorial projects, painting, photography,
film and video, text and audio works as well as other
objects and experiments in the fields of art, politics,
literature, philosophy, and science.
LORE
And last but not least we’d like to draw your attention to
an Australian-German co-produced film, Lore. The longawaited follow-up to her exquisite Somersault, Australian
director Cate Shortland's adaptation of the novel The
Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert is a sensual and complex
story that explores the tribulations faced by the young in
the aftermath of World War II. The film premiered at the
Sydney Film Festival (sorry that this newsletter didn’t
come in time to announce that), but will be shown to a
wider audience in Australia and Germany soon.
Elisabeth Meister, our long-serving colleague at the
DAAD Information Centre Sydney and author of major
parts of this newsletter has wonderfully translated this
opus.
For further interest in excellent English-German-English
translations:
Elisabeth Meister
Translation & Proofreading
Ph 0413 470 354
[email protected]
For further information, comments or to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please email us at [email protected]
You can download previous issues from http://ic.daad.de/sydney/newsletter.htm
Yours

DAAD Australia Information Centre Sydney Rundbrief 25 Juni 2011

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