About the editors:Andrea Bandhauer is a senior lecturer in Germanic studies at the University of Sydney.Maria Veber is a member of the academic teaching staff in the Germanic studies department at the University of Sydney.

• AcknowledgementsEditors’ noteContributorsSome ideas about forms of cultural contact resulting from German-Australian migrationAndrea Bandhauer and Maria VeberPart 1: cultural disseminations of missionary ethnography1. Missionary scholarship and cultural theory: Carl Strehlow’s Aboriginal studies in the context of European knowledge discourses on taboo and totemismOrtrud Gutjahr2. Dada among the missionaries: sources of Tristan Tzara’s ‘Poèmes Nègres’Walter F. VeitPart 2: living the mission – religious disseminations3. Carl Strehlow’s missionAnna Kenny4. Missionary love and duty: Frieda Keysser’s and Carl Strehlow’s letters of courtship 1894–1895Andrea Bandhauer and Maria VeberPart 3: narratives of national and cultural identity5. Debating the ‘German Presence’ in Australia: notes on research and research desiderataGerhard Fischer6. German Anzacs and the First World WarJohn F. Williams7. Land ownership, indenture and a ‘migration-prone’ personality: aspects of the emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia in the 19th centuryKathrine M. Reynolds8. The German accounts of Cook’s voyagesFredericka van der LubbePart 4: imaginations of Australia in German literature9. ‘Wen die Schande einmal gefaßt hat …’: Therese Huber’s Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland and the question of guiltJudith Wilson10. Europe’s utopia or paradise lost? The depiction of Australia in Urs Widmer’s Liebesbrief für Mary [Love Letter for Mary]Birte Giesler