Every other year, the German Association for Australian Studies awards an excellent thesis on an Australian topic written by an author either living in or being a citizen of Germany, Switzerland, or Austria.
Works (Ph.D., M.A., or Diploma theses) submitted in response to our call for proposals should not be older than three years and will be reviewed by a board of advisers which nominates one or more prize winners. Laureates are expected to present their projects either in a short talk on our biennial conferences or in an article for the Journal of Australian Studies.
Ausschreibung Förderpreis 2023
(in German)
Past award recipients
2023
Daniel Rothenburg
Too Much Water:
Irrigation, Salinity, and Communities in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. An Environmental History
Doctoral thesis, Universität Tübingen, 2022
Lena Amberge
World of Loss:
Absence and Grief in Australian Climate Fiction
Master thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2022
2020
Victoria Herche
The Adolescent Country:
Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film
Doctoral thesis, Universität zu Köln, 2018
Louise Thatcher
Policing the Border in Early White Australia
Master thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2020
2018
Geoff Rodoreda
The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction
Doctoral thesis, Universität Stuttgart, 2017.
Danielle Norberg
‘The Remains of Decency’:
Footwear in the Early Australian Settlement
Bachelor thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2016.
2016
Stefanie Affeldt
Consuming Whiteness:
Australian Racism and the ‘White Sugar’ Campaign.
Doctoral thesis, Dep. Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg, 2013.
Roxana Leithold
Nachhaltige Siedlungsentwicklung als Verdichtungsprozess:
Kleinräumige Analysen in der Wachstumsregion Brisbane, Australien
Master thesis Geography, Universität zu Köln, 2014.
Daniel Rothenburg
Australischer High Modernism:
Merkmale des Hydro-Electric-Engineering-Diskurses anhand des Hume-Staudamms
Admission thesis for the state examination, History, Universität Tübingen, 2015.
2014
Chrischona Schmidt
‚I paint for everyone‘ – the making of Utopia art
Doctoral thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, 2012.
2012
Mandy Kretzschmar
Narrating the Other:
Cultural Constructions of the European in the Australian Press.
A Qualitative Analysis of the 1920s and 1960s
Doctoral thesis, Universität Leipzig and Macquarie University, Sydney, 2012.
Fabian Sonneburg
The Effects of Airport Development on Local Real Estate Markets:
Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses for Brisbane, Australia
Diploma thesis, Universität zu Köln, 2012.
2010
Sibylle Kästner
Jagende Sammlerinnen und Sammelnde Jägerinnen in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit:
Eine Studie über die Beschaffung tierischer Beute durch australische Aborigines-Frauen
anhand ethnologischer und ethnohistorischer Quellen
Doctoral thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2008.
Maike Koschorrek
A Long Way to Reconciliation:
Entwicklungen in der australischen Vergangenheitsbewältigung und
Aussöhnungspolitik unter der Howard-Regierung 1996-2007 – Eine Diskursanalyse
themenrelevanter Artikel des Bulletin
Master thesis, Universität Bremen, 2009.
2008
Ulrike Abend
Australia Talks Back – the Phenomenon of Talkback Radio
Diplomarbeit, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, 2008.
2006
Andreas Gaile
Rewriting History:
Peter Cary’s Fictional Biography of Australia
Doctoral thesis, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2006.
Melanie Fasche
Glocalization, Gentrification and Creative Business Services:
A Case Study of Newtown Sydney
Diploma thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2004.
Claudio Kullmann
Die Einstellungen zur Monarchie in Australien und Neuseeland im Vergleich
[The Attitudes Towards the Monarchy in Australia and New Zealand Compared]
Master thesis, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2006.
2004
Christof Pforr
Tourism Public Policy in the Northern Territory of Australia
A Process Facilitating Sustainability?
[A Case Study of the Northern Territory Tourism Development Master Plan]
Doctoral thesis, Northern Territory University, Darwin, 2003.
2002
Anke Schüttemeyer
Verdichtete Siedlungsstrukturen in Sydney
Lösungsansätze für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
[Compact Urban Form – Aspects of Sustainable Urban Development in Sydney]
Doctoral thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2002.
2000
Margret Carstens
Indigene Land- und Selbstbestimmungsrechte in Australien und Kanada unter
besonderer Berücksichtigung des internationalen Rechts
[From Native Title to Self-Determination? Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada. A Legal Comparison]
Doctoral thesis, Universität Bremen, 1999.