Narrating Lives - Telling (Hi)stories

The 'Australian Studies Journal Zeitschrift für Australienstudien' is an academic publication issued by the editors on behalf of the German Association for Australian Studies with a regular issue in summer and special issues in spring and autumn.It discusses a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects relevant to Australia and its society. Henriette von Holleuffer is a historian. She holds a PhD and M.A. from the University of Hamburg. Her academic research focuses on Australian (Commonwealth) history and the global displacement of refugees. In the past she has worked as a journalist in Sydney, as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg, and as a Public Relations adviser at the Ministry of Nature and Conservation Kiel. She held a DAAD research scholarship for Australia. Henriette has published work on emigration and Australian history. Her latest book publication is the German edition of 'Edward John Eyre's Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia / Expeditionen in den Westen Australiens' (Edition Erdmann 2016). Oliver Haag holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a M.A. from the University of Vienna. He is Research Fellow at Linnaeus University, Växjö, and Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in the areas of European reception of Indigenous New Zealand and Australian literatures, the history of publishing and critical race and whiteness theory. Oliver has authored numerous articles in journals, such as 'Continuum, National Identities and Antipodes'. He is co-editor of 'The Persistence of Race from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism' (Berghahn 2017) and of 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' (Australian National University Press 2014).