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Rainer L. Hempel, B.A. ( UBC) , M.A. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC) E-mail: rhempel@mta.ca Retired
Professor of German
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Rainer L. Hempel was born in Wurzen, Saxony, as the youngest of four children
of Wilhelm Hempel, a diploma engineer, and Erna Lamprecht (née
Lamprecht). At war's end the Americans released his father from a prisoner-of-war
camp into the eastern zone where he was arrested and taken to a Siberian
KGB camp which he did not survive. In 1953 his family escaped to West Germany,
where Rainer Hempel attended secondary school (Gymnasium) in Stolberg,
Northrhine Westphalia, until the age of 17.
In 1958 his family emigrated to Canada, and he continued his schooling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When most of his family moved to British Columbia, he pursued his studies there at the tertiary level and graduated with a B.A. (German and mathematics) in 1965, an M.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1973) in German literature at the University of British Columbia. Before accepting his present teaching position, he taught at the University of British Columbia, Trent University in Ontario, and the University of Alberta. Although he has published in the field of literature, he became interested in German-Canadian Studies, in particular the early German settlers of New Brunswick who arrived via Pennsylvania in 1766. He has given lectures on this topic in the United States, Germany, and Canada and published numerous articles on the subject of immigration, acculturation, and assimilation in the German-Canadian Yearbook, the Yearbook of German-American Studies, and other publications. More than ten years ago, Dr. Hempel conceived of the plan for a book on early German immigration to New Brunswick, Canada. During a sabbatical leave in Germany in 1989/1990, he was able to expand his research into the origins of these settlers. The result of his studies was published in the fall of 2000 by the German-Canadian Historical Association and printed by the University of Toronto Press under the title New Voices on the Shores: Early Pennsylvania German Settlements in New Brunswick. He has been teaching German language, literature, and history at Mount Allison University for 30 years. He resides in Sackville, New Brunswick, with his wife and family. Research Comparison of styles and use of sources between Adalbert Stifter’s historical novel Witiko and Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbô. The German origins and socio-economic circumstances of the Treitz/Trites family prior to their arrival in colonial New Brunswick in 1766. Material
culture of the Petitcodiac Germans
Publications “‘Unbekannt und Allein’ am Petitcociacfluß,” European Origins and Colonial Travails: The Settlement of Lunenburg. Editors Paul and Eva Huber. Halifax: Messenger Publications Inc., 2003, pp. 178-179. “Christopher Sauer: Loyalist Printer and Postmaster,” German-Canadian Yearbook, XVII. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association 2003, pp. 115-129. “Abraham Gesner: Father of the Petroleum Industry,” German-Canadian Yearbook, XVII. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 2003, pp. 129-139. Angelika Arend, Documents of Protest and Compassion: The Poetry of Walter Bauer (London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999), review in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, September 2002 Helena Ragg-Kirkby, Adalbert Stifter’s Late Prose: The Mania for Moderation (Rochester: Camden House, 2000), review in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4, December 2002. “The French Connection,” Les Cahiers, Vol. 32, no. 4. Moncton, N. B.: La Société Historique Acadienne, 2001. 188-208. “Peter Etter Jr.: ‘Loyal’ Swiss-German Jeweller,” German-Canadian Yearbook, XVI. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 2001. 209-229. “The Fis(c)hers: Entrepreneurs, Authors, and Politicians,” German-Canadian Yearbook, XVI. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 2001. 230-242. “The Splendid ‘Isolation’ of the Petitcodiac Germans,” German-Canadian Yearbook, XVI. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 2001. 121-131. Hartmut Fröschle. Adler auf dem Ahornbaum, Lothar Zimmermann, ed. (Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 1997), review in Seminar. A Journal for Germanic Studies, XXXV, No. 4, 357 - 358. New Voices on the Shores: Early Pennsylvania German Settlements in New Brunswick. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 2000. 486pp. Walter Riedel und Rodney Symington, eds. Der Wanderer: Review in Seminar: A Journal for Germanic Studies, XXXII, No. 4. November 1996. 370 - 371. Elfriede Stutz. Frühe deutsche Novellenkunst, Bernd und Schwab, eds. (Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1991), Review in Seminar: A Journal for Germanic Studies, III, No. 4, 1994. 430 - 431. “Early German Settlements on the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick,” (Illustrated Article), German-Canadian Yearbook, XIII. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 124 - 148. Barbara S. Grossman Stone. Adalbert Stifter and the Idyll. A Study of “Witiko”. Series I, Germanic Languages and Literature 80 (New York/Bern/Frankfurt am Main/Paris: Peter Lang, 1990). Review in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, XXVII, No. 4. November 1991. 363 - 364. Rosemary Hunter-Lougheed, Adalbert Stifter: Der Waldbrunnen, Interpretation und Ursprungshypothese. Schriften des Adalbert-Stifter-Institutes des Landes Oberösterreich, Folge 37 (Linz: Landesverlag, 1988). Review in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, XXVII, No. 1, February 1991. 70 - 72. “Extrakurrikulare Elemente des Deutschunterrichts,” Forum Deutsch, Nr. 1. Calgary: Ständige Konferenz kanadischer Deutschlehrer, 1990. 53 - 55. “Recent German Immigration to New Brunswick.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, XXIV. Lawrence, Ka: German-American Studies,1989. 89 - 96. Canadiana Germanica: A Journal for German-Canadian Studies.Co-editor. Sackville, N.B., 1988, 1989. “Witiko und die Kongruenz von Stifters Gesamtwerk.” Vielteljahresschrift des Adalbert-Stifter-Instituts des Landes Oberösterreich, Jahrgang 37, Folge 1/2. Linz: 1988, 45 - 57. ”Das Verhältnis des ‘Rahmens’ zu den Binnenerzählungen in Stifters Novelle Die Narrenburg.” Recueil des Résumés des Communications, Annales de l’ACFAS, LV, 1987, 203. “Germantown, die Geschichte einer deutschen Siedlung in Neubraunschweig.” German-Canadian Yearbook, IX. Toronto: Historical Society of Mecklenburg-Upper Canada, 1986. 49-62. ”La loi de la ‘Sanfte Gesetz’ encore une fois.” Résumés des Communications, Annales de l’ACFAS, XLI, 1984, 171. “Adjektivendungen schmerzlos?” Proceedings of the Atlantic University Teachers of German Conference, 1979. St. John’s, Nfld.: 1979. 30-39. Proceedings of the Atlantic University Teachers of German Conference, 1979, edited, introduced and published, Sackville, N.B. : Mount Allison University Press, 1979. “Deutschlands
jüngste Vergangenheit in Günter Grass’ Hochwasser”. Résumés
des Communications, Annales de l’ACFAS, XLIII, 1976, 110.
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