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| Manuscript Name | Papers of Manfred Jurgensen |
| Manuscript Number | MSS 106 |
| Last Updated | May 2021 |
| Extent | 5 boxes + 1 AV box |
| Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
| Abstract | Diaries, poetry, and correspondence written by Jurgensen along with material submitted to him as editor of the literary magazine Outrider including poems, articles, short stories, interviews, photographs, and radio plays |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
This collection relates to literary scholar and writer Manfred Jurgensen. It comprises material submitted to the Australian literary magazine Outrider (of which Jurgensen was editor from 1984-1996) as well as Jurgensen’s own creative writing, including Signs and Voices (1973), A Winter’s Journey (1976-1977), and My Operas Can’t Swim (1989)
Date Range of Content
1945-1989 (bulk 1977-1989)
Biographical Note
Wikipedia article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Jurgensen
German-Australian literary scholar and writer Manfred Jurgensen was born in 1940 in Flensburg, where he grew up. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English and German and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy from Zürich University and a Doctor of Letters from the University of Queensland in 1991. As an academic, Jurgensen held many fellowships overseas and acted as a visiting professor at various universities. From 1972 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and from 1986 a Fellow of the World Literary Academy.
Jurgensen has edited several literary journals, including the magazine Outrider from 1984-1996 and works of contemporary German-speaking authors. In addition to his work as a literary scholar and critic, Jurgensen is the author of creative works such as poems, plays and narratives, and in 1997 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to literature
References:
Austlit : Manfred Jurgensen https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16456 retrieved 3 August 2020
Administrative Information
Access and Copying Conditions
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material for private study and research is approved
Preferred Citation
Papers of Manfred Jurgensen, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 106, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
Provenance
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Subject Keywords
Subjects
Manfred Jurgensen, 1940- — Archives
Authors, German
Australian poetry — 20th century
Personal Names
Manfred Jurgensen, 1940-
Corporate Names
Outrider
Occupations
Authors
Editors
Poets
Container List
Box 1
Folder 1
Draft of Editorial/Introduction by Manfred Jurgensen and Robert Adamson for Australian Writing, 1988 (Outrider)
Short biography of Juno Gemes
Poetry by Diane Fahey, Dacia Maraini, Michael Sharkey, Geoffrey Quinlan, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Keith Barker, Isset Goldeli, Frances Rouse, Okyanusu Gozlerken, David Reiter (All typewritten, annotated)
Folder 2
Short stories by Serge Liberman, Ross Fitzgerald
Poetry by Dimitris Tsaloumas, Mark Miller, John Tranter, Ross Fitzgerald, Margaret Diesendorf, Jamie Grant, John Blight (All typewritten, annotated) [For Outrider]
Folder 3
Poetry by David Brooks, Manfred Jurgensen, Melodee Unthank, Geoffrey Dutton, Bruce Dawe, George Theodoridis, Vicki Viidikas, Robert Adamson, Connie Barber, Vivian Smith, Antigone Kefala, Olga Pavlinova
Short stories by Walter Tonetto, Margot Luke, Thomas Keneally
Radio plays by Samar Attar (All typewritten, annotated) [For Outrider]
Folder 4
Poetry by Rachael M Bradley, John Forbes, Michael Dargarville, Keri Glastonbury, Pavlos Andronikos, Kieran Ridge, A Gawthorne, R L Frye, Justin Macdonnell, Ron Pretty, Rosemary Dobson
Short stories by Graeme Harper, Blaise Cendrars, Archimede Fusillo, Marc Ellis, Cornelis Vleeskens, Barbara Brandt, Michael Wilding
Arts II Graduation Address, 1986 by Dorothy Green
(All typewritten, annotated) [For Outrider]
Folder 5
Leather-bound handwritten book of poetry by Manfred Jurgensen dated 25 May 1977 to 8 November 1982
Folder 6
Leather-bound handwritten book of poetry by Manfred Jurgensen ‘A Winter’s Journey (1976-1977)’
Folder 7
Leather-bound handwritten book of poetry by Manfred Jurgensen ‘South Africa Transit (1978)’
Folder 8
Leather-bound handwritten book of poetry by Manfred Jurgensen ‘Signs and Voices’
Folder 9
Leather-bound handwritten book of poetry by Manfred Jurgensen ‘Outrider’
Box 2
Folder 10
Poetry by Rosanne Musu, Michael Driscoll, J S Harry, Siles Hugo, Anthony Lawrence, Rodney Hall, Chris Edwards, Gerry Turcotte
Short story by Anthony Macris
Interview with Zeny Giles by Helen Nickas
Notes
(All typewritten, annotated) [For Outrider]
Folder 11
Poetry by B Wongar, John Millett, Terry Gillmore, Jyanni Steffensen, Judith Rodriguez, Tim Thorne, Thomas Shapcott
Short stories by John Dale, Nicholas Donato, David Martin, Elizabeth Perkins
(All typewritten, annotated) [For Outrider]
Folder 12
Outrider, 1988 -
Correspondence, 1984-1988
Poetry by Cornelis Vleeskens, Vincent Buckley, Dorothy Hewett, (handwritten and typewritten annotated)
Short stories by Ugo Rotellini, Elizabeth Jolley (typewritten, annotated)
Biographical notes (typewritten, annotated)
Folder 13
Outrider 2/89 -
Correspondence, 1984-1989
Short stories by Philip Neilsen, Walter Spunde (typewritten)
Miscellaneous notes and draft layout pages (handwritten, typewritten, annotated)
Biographical notes (handwritten, typewritten, annotated)
Folder 14
Outrider -
Correspondence, 1984-1989
Miscellaneous notes
Folder 15
Outrider -
Correspondence, 1986
Articles by Karin Struck, Peter Lumb, Vivian Smith, Philip Grundy
Play by Gun Gencer, typewritten
Poetry by Dipti Saravanamuth, Louise Katherine Wakeling, Harsha Ram, Ugo Rotellini, Jean L M Hicks, Bruce Dawe, Cornelis Vleeskens, Gary Catalano, Antigone Kefala, Manfred Jurgensen, Michael Sariban, Kate Collins, Kristen D Hinds, Francy de Grys
Short stories by Nihat Ziyalan, Peter Bibby
Reviews
(All typewritten, annotated)
Box 16
Folder 16
Outrider 1/89 -
Poetry by Antigone Kefala, A G Paradissis, Connie Barber, Miriam Kuna, Ron Pretty, Diane Fahey, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, David Reiter, Ross Clark (typewritten, annotated)
Short stories by B Wongar, Margaret Macarthur, Jean L M Hicks, David Brooks, Michael Wilding, Susan Hampton, Anthony Uhlmann, Peter Skrzynecki, David P Reiter
Articles by Maria Lewitt, Rosa Safransky, George Papaellina, Helen O’Reilly (typewritten, annotated)
Interview with David Malouf by Samar Attar (typewritten)
Handwritten list of reviews and reviewers’ names
Folder 17
Outrider -
Poetry by Richard Tipping, Dorothy Hewett, Grant Caldwell, Chris Mansell, Peter Lyssiotis, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Arthur M Spyrou, Penelope Buckley, Robert Handicott, R H Morrison, Justin Macdonnell, Olga Pavlinova, Alain Bosquet, Gerry Turcotte, Adrian Caesar, Heather Cam, Roger Averill (typewritten, annotated)
Short stories by Helen Allan. Richard Tipping, Ann Granat, Grant Caldwell, Desmond O’Grady, Robert Cox, Dirk Strasser, Gerry Turcotte, M da Silva, Helen M Gilbert, Paul Greguric, Archimede Fusillo, Adrian D’Ambra, Wynne Whittaker (typewritten, annotated)
Folder 18
Outrider 1/86 -
Correspondence, 1985-1989
Poetry by Kirk Hawksworth, Alex Skovron, Paul Kraus, Peter Bakowski (typewritten, annotated)
Short stories by Grand Caldwell, Anthony Uhlmann (typewritten, annotated)
Folder 19
Outrider 1/90 - correspondence,1989
Outrider - correspondence 1985
Outrider 1987 - photocopy of artworks, correspondence 1987
Folder 20
Outrider -
Correspondence, 1987-1989
Short stories by Elizabeth Jolley (typewritten)
Synopsis of proposed novel by Kieran Ridge (typewritten)
Poetry by A G Paradissis (typewritten)
Miscellaneous artwork
Box 4
Folder 21
Outrider -
Correspondence, 1987
Play by Desmond O’Grady (typewritten carbon copy, annotated)
Interview with Gun Gencer by Laoura Gallou (typewritten)
Poetry by Gun Gencer, Diane Fahey, Melodee Unthank, Margaret Diesendorf, Robert Lumsden, Vivian Smith, Joe Abiuso, Pavlos Andronikos, Antigone Kefala, Frances Rouse, Rita Caramia, Rudi Krausmann, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Rosanne Musu (typewritten, annotated)
Articles by Oliver Friggieri, Ross Fitzgerald (typewritten, annotated)
Book reviews
Short stories by Katrin Ogilvy, Giuseppe Abbiuso, Chris Catt (typewritten, annotated)
Folder 22
Outrider -
Correspondence, 1985-1987
Short stories by Carole Nomarhas, Archimede Fusillo, Helen Allan, Jean L M Hicks, Serge Liberman, Peter Skrzynecki, Francy de Grys, Margaret Diesendorf, Zeny Giles, Vasso Kalamaras, Geoffrey Quinlan, Gerry Turcotte, Cornelis Vleeskens (typewritten, annotated)
Poetry by A G Paradissis, Theodor Storm, Gerry Turcotte, Jean L M Hicks, Izzet Goldeli, Beate Josephi, Margaret Diesendorf, Peter Skrzynecki, Roger Averill, Manfred Jurgensen, Uyen Loewald (typewritten, annotated)
Articles by Gaetano Rando, Uyen Loewald, Jacques Delaruelle. Sophie Masson, Sneja Gunew, Michael Sariban, Tony Mitchell, Edward Reilly (typewritten, annotated)
Miscellaneous notes and editorials
Folder 23
Blast No. 9, Autumn 1989: flyer mock-up
Folder 24
Poetry and short story by Robert Adamson
Newspaper clippings regarding Robert Adamson
Australian Writing annotated galley proofs
Correspondence 1988 regarding Australian Writing 1988 and Outrider
Folder 25
27 book jackets for Australian Writing Now
Box 5
Folder 26
Handwritten and typewritten, annotated drafts of poetry for The Partiality of Harbours and My operas can’t swim
Folder 27
Outrider -
Poetry by Meredith Wattison, Arthur M Spyrou, Louise Crisp
Articles by Igor Mavers, Con Castan
(All typewritten, annotated)
Folder 28
Outrider -
Poetry by Frances Rouse, Diane Fahey, Vivian Smith, Jean Kent
Short stories by David A Bowman, Archimede Fusillo, Stephen Kolsky
(All typewritten, annotated)
Folder 29
Outrider -
Short story by Heather Cam
Poetry by Antigone Kefala, Shane McCauley, Rae Sexton, R H Morrison, John Kinsella, Peter Bakowski, Christopher Houston
Articles by Gun Gencer, Adrian D’Ambra, Consiglia Zammit, Philip Neilsen, Ikbal Hassoon (Walter Kaufmann) (all typewritten, annotated)
Folder 30
Outrider -
Short stories by Anthony Uhlmann, Andrea Gawthorn, Manfred Jurgensen, Chris Mansell
Poetry by Cliff Lethbridge, Anne Kellas, Andrew Leggett, Matthew Schulz, Michael Dargaville, Tom Petsinis, Melodee Unthank, Katherine Gallagher, S K Kelen, C M Caddy, Ian Saw
(All typewritten, annotated)
Folder 31
Outrider -
Poetry by L R Hard, Billy Jones, Rachel Bradley, Neera Atkinson, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Geoff Goodfellow, Justin Macdonnell, Michael Sariban, Joseph Balla, Graeme Hetherington, Subhash Jaireth
Biographical notes on contributing authors
(All typewritten annotated)
Audiovisual material
Photo Album 1
Photographs from various issues of Outrider -
Page
1 Catalogue No. 29 “Gliding”; Perry Peter Chen; Untitled; Catalogue No. 8 “Munta”
2 ‘Second Chance’
3 “Acrobats”; Laser Kinetia Image March 1985 (2 slides)
4 Laser Kinetia Image March 1985
5 Katoomba Street, ca 1945; Self portrait of Vojtech; Railway Bridge at Leura, Blue Mts, NSW ca 1950
6 Marge Bardsley’s cottage at Wentworth Falls, NSW ca 1945; House at Wilde’s Meadow near Robertson, New South Wales, Oil, about 1950; Bust of Woman
7 Sad Clown; Philosopher; Violinist
8 Untitled (headache painting); Post Office, Kiama, NSW ca 1950
9 The Bushfire, ca 1960; Aboriginal by Laurie Bray, ca 1970
10 Chain of happiness (hangs in the Workers Club); 30 Pieces of Silver; Entrance to my house - In Memory of a Happy Day 10/82
11 Unbalanced Burden; King Neptune
12 Feeding birds and Goddess of Fertility; Footballer decorating Central Football Club
13 United; Mans Achievements
14 Unfinished Symphony
15 "Let’s Go For a Walk" Exhib - Book Launch Cat. No. 21
16 “Pointer” Exhib - Book Launch Cat. No. 19
17 “Donna and Her Children”
18 “Donna and her Children”
19 “Walking Through the Desert” Catalogue from Exhib - Book Launch No. 20
20 “Ophelia & Burgiba” Book Launch Exhib No. 14
21 “Mother Earth”
22 Laser Concert in Ballarat, March 1984
23 ‘Division’ He and She; Untitled
24 Orchid; Untitled
25 Untitled; Landscape of Waterfall
26 Untitled
27 Untitled
28 Untitled; Untitled; J A Klimer “The Mangrove Beach” acrylic
29 J A Klimer “The Rainbow Beach” pastels 1989; Le Van Tai; Sun, Sea, Surf
30 Tree of Life, Rev. 22:1-3; Windsurfer at Edith Falls; Sunflower Field
31 The Meeting Place; Decorated Bowl; Top End
32 A Hermit’s Place; Rendezvous at Dawn; Impressions
33 Ceramic Sculpture (four photographs)
34 [empty]
35 Untitled; A Fusillo; Untitled; Untitled; “Human Kind and Animals”
36 Michael Sariban; Cornelis Vleeskens; Uyen Loewald; Andras Dezsery
37 Jacques Delarville; The Sixties - 1987
38 Vasso Kalamaras
39 Untitled (signed by Angelo Bellini)
40 Untitled (signed by Angelo Bellini)
41 Untitled (signed by Angelo Bellini)
42 Untitled [Robert Adamson]
43 Untitled
44 Untitled
45 Untitled; Untitled
46 Untitled; Antigone Kefala; M I B Khtir Ghazmavi (Pakistan)
47 Pareshan Khataak (Pakistan); A Samad Said (Malaysia); Rene Daillie (France); Reading at Maby Women’s Teachers Training College, Malacca on 27 October 1986
48 Ahmad Kemal Abdullah (Malaysia) 27 October 1986; The International Poets 27 October 1986
49 Untitled
50 Untitled
51 Untitled
52 Untitled
53 Untitled
54 Art by W Band (3 photographs)
55 Untitled (3 photographs)
56 Untitled (4 photographs)
57 “Fluchtiger Schlaf”; Untitled (3 photographs)
58 Untitled (3 photographs); “Wie Spat, Bitte”
59 “Monstranz”
60 Untitled (3 photographs)
61 Photo of Burnt Ti-tree in snow by Klaus Hueneke
62 Self portrait, Ramshead Range or “Shadow I” by Klaus Hueneke
63 Weathered Alpine Ash logs of the Coolamine Cheese House by Klaus Hueneke
64 Untitled (3 photographs)
65 Untitled (2 photographs)
66 Untitled (2 photographs)
67 Untitled (2 photographs)
68 Eleanor Dark
69 Transparencies - “Tanami Ladies”, Untitled, “Bobby Ngamirra”, Other Side of the Centre, “Australian Mystic”
70 19 slides all titled ‘Etching’ by Carmen Ky
71 5 slides untitled plus plastic slide holder
72 13 slides, untitled, of untitled photographs on pages 64-67
73 Oriental faces, Levantai 1986
74 Yellow stones of 1000 years, Levantai 1986
75 Animals Come into the City, Levantai 1986; Yellow stones of 1000 years, Levantai 1986
76 Booklet entitled King Trigger with 11 photographs pasted onto pages