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| Manuscript Name | Papers of Angelika Fremd |
| Manuscript Number | MSS 216 |
| Last Updated | June 2021 |
| Extent | 18 boxes + 1 AV box |
| Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
| Abstract | Manuscripts, reviews, diaries, journals, and correspondence relating to Angelika Fremd |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
The papers of Angelika Fremd include drafts of manuscripts, diaries, dream journals, correspondence, reviews, documentation, and an audio cassette. A large component of the collection comprises Fremd’s diaries and journals which date from 1986-2001
Date Range of Content
1966-2001
Biographical Note
Author and poet Angelika Fremd (also known as Fremd-Wiese) was born in Seelow, Germany in 1944 and emigrated to Australia in 1956. After gaining a Master of Arts, she taught English, History and Languages in Queensland and Papua New Guinea high schools from 1966-1986. She worked as a multicultural and community literature officer in Queensland, co-founded Phoenix Publications as well as co-founded and co-edited Outrider. Along with short stories, poetry and periodicals, Fremd has published two novels, Heartland (1989) and The Glass Inferno (1992), both focusing on a woman whose family escapes Germany in the 1950s.
References:
Austlit : Angelika Fremd https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A16063 retrieved 9 June 2020
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature : Fremd, Angelika https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095834883?rskey=WsoX8x&result=10 retrieved 15 June 2020
Administrative Information
Access and Copying Conditions
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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 If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items.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collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright.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.
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Angelika Fremd, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 216, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
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Subject Keywords
Subjects
Angelika Fremd, 1944- — Archives
Australian literature — 20th century
Australian Poetry — 20th Century
Germans — Australia — Fiction
Personal Names
Angelika Fremd, 1944-
Occupations
Authors
Poets
Container List
Box 1
Folder 1
Final sub-edited draft of Heartland with book cover
Folder 2
Original manuscript ‘Fire and Ice’ (working title ‘The Wishing Planet’)
Folder 3
Original notes and sections of Heartland (original title ‘Snakes and Cockatoos’)
Rewriting suggestions by UQP [University of Queensland Press] editor D’Arcy Randall
Folder 4
Cuttings used as background material for ‘The Gatherer’
Folder 5
First draft of ‘The Gatherer’ - second book in Heartland quartet (three bound volumes)
Folder 6
Second draft - Part I - ‘The Gatherer’
Box 2
Folder 7
Sub-edited copy of The Glass Inferno
Folder 8
Sub-edited copy and fourth draft of The Glass Inferno
Folder 9
Fourth draft of The Glass Inferno
Folder 10
Third and fourth drafts of The Glass Inferno
Folder 11
Third draft of The Glass Inferno
Folder 12
Second and third drafts of The Glass Inferno
Folder 13
Second draft of The Glass Inferno
Folder 14
Second draft of The Glass Inferno; handwritten notebook of poetry, 1985
Box 3
Folder 15
Poetry, originals, 1/84, 2/85, and Book of Knowledge, 1985
Folder 16
Songs / Poetry 5, 1986-1987; diary, 1986
Folder 17
Dreaming/dream record 1987-1988; Poetry diary dreams 1988-1989
Folder 18
Diary, 1978 - 1980
Folder 19
Poetry drafts, 1987 - 1988; diary, 1976 - 1977
Folder 20
Diary and dream record
Folder 21
Diaries, 1989-1990 (two)
Folder 22
Notebook
Folder 23
Notebook 1986
Box 4
Folder 24
Diary, 1983
Folder 25
Diaries, 1986, 1990
Folder 26
Background material for ‘The Moontree’ (in progress in 1992) - Book I, ‘The Imagemaker’
Folder 27
Diary, dream journal, 1990, 1991
Folder 28
Final computer draft of The Glass Inferno, published in 1992
Folder 29
Final computer draft of The Glass Inferno, plus sub-edited copy of page proofs
Folder 30
Sub-edited copy of pages proofs of The Glass Inferno
Folder 31
Sub-edited copy of page proofs of The Glass Inferno
Box 5
Folder 31A
Sub-edited copy of page proofs of The Glass Inferno
Folder 32
Diary, 1990
Folder 33
Diary, dreams, 1991, no. 2
Folder 34
Diary, dreams, end 1991, no. 3
Folder 35
‘Dancing Kali Ma’, volume 2, begun April 1992
Folder 36
Diary, dreams, 25 December 1991 - 7 April 1992
Folder 37
Journal, 8 April 1992
Box 6
Folder 37A
Journal, July - October 1992
Folder 37B
Journal, October 1992
Folder 37C
Journal - begun 29 November 1992, Brisbane
Folder 38
Correspondence
Manfred Jurgensen: letters, cards, poems, postcards for 5 June 1975 - 8 May 1983; with undated / fragmentary materials
Eluned Lloyd: letters, 1990
Letters, Christmas/greetings cards, postcards for 9 May 1995 - 17 December 1996, with undated material
Folder 39
Correspondence
Writers and editors, 9 October 1984 - 2 September 1987
Letters, Christmas/greetings cards, postcards for 9 May 1995 - 17 December 1996, with undated material
Folder 40
Diaries / Journals
December 1992, 92/93
Journal Autumn equinox, 20 March 1993
Journal May 1993
Journal 14 July 1993
Box 7
Folder 41
Diaries / Journals
Visual diary, July 1993 to October 1994
Journal / Dream book January 1994
Journal / Dreams February 1994
Journal March 1994
Journal June 1994
Folder 42
Diaries / Journals
Journal / Dreams / Letters – August-October 1994
Journal / Dreams / Letters – November-December 1994
Diary / Journal / Dreams January 1995
Box 8
Folder 43
Diaries / Journals
Journal / Dreams March - April 1995
Journal / Dreams May - 3 June 1995
Journal / Dreams 3 June - 18 June 1995
Folder 44
Diaries / Journals
Journal / Dreams – maps of consciousness, 20 June - 13 July 1995
Journal / Dreams – maps of consciousness, 14 July - 12 August 1995
Journal – balancing dreams, 13 August 1995 [- 18 September 1995]
Box 9
Folder 45
Diaries / Journals
Journal / Dreams 18 September - 25 October 1995
Journal / Dreams 26 October - 13 November 1995
Journal / Dreams [17 November - 22 December 1995]
Folder 46
Diaries / Journals
Dreams – journal 23 December 1995 - [9 January 1996]
Journal 26 January - [2 February 1996]
Journal / Dreams 2 February 1996 - 13 March 1996]
Journal / Dreams 14 March - 4 April 1996
Journal / Dreams 10 - 25 April 1996
Folder 47
Diaries / Journals
Journal 26 April - 21 May 1996
Journals / Dreams 22 May - 6 July 1996
[Journal] 6 July - 2 August 1996
Box 10
Folder 48
Diaries / Journals
Dreams / Journal 3 August - 27 August 1996
Journal / Dreams 28 August - 13 September 1996
Journal / Dreams 14 September - 1 October 1996
Journal / Dreams 1 October - 30 October 1996
Journal / Dreams 31 October - 27 November 1996
Folder 49
Diaries / Journals
Dreams / Journal 28 November - 29 December 1996
Journal / Dreams 29 December 1996 - 28 January 1997
Journal / Dreams 29 January 1997 - 21 April 1997
Journal / Dreams 21 April 1997 - 23 May 1997
Box 11
Folder 50
Diaries / Journals
Journal / Dreams 29 May 1997 - 12 July 1997
Journal / Dreams 14 July 1997 - [2 August 1997]
Journal / Dreams 15 August 1997 - 12 September 1997
Dreams / Journals 12 September 1997 - 9 October 1997
Journal / Dreams 10 October 1997 - 24 November 1997
Journal 19 November 1997 - 14 March 1998
Folder 51
Diaries / Journals
Journal 16 March 1998 - 11 June 1998
Journal / Dreams 11 June 1998 - 6 September 1998
Journal 7 September 1998 - 10 November 1998
Journal / Dreams 12 November 1998 - 1 December 1998
Journal / Dreams 1 December 1998 - 1 January 1999
Journal 12 January 1999 - 9 March 1999
Journal 10 March 1999 - 28 October 1999
Folder 52
Diaries / Journals
Journal 29 October 1999 - 25 May 2000
Box 12
Folder 53
Diaries / Journals
Journal / Dreams 13 January 1996 - 25 January 1996
Journal 1 June 2000 - 13 April 2001
Journal 14 April 2001 - 19 July 2001
Folder 54
Literary Drafts
Poetry originals. Published and unpublished 1966 - 1993 [alternative title ‘Bits of Poems’ – 1984-1988] with list of poems on the front
Folder 55
Literary Drafts
Untitled: inside front cover, ‘To Manfred, With love and gratitude, admiration and friendship – Angelika, 1975’
Poetry 1990 -1991, completed 21 September 1991
Poetry, begun 21 September 1991, 1991/1992/1993
Last draft of poetry volume ‘Ice’ – 1995
Poetry originals (undated), contains ‘Female Passages’
Folder 56
Literary Drafts
Originals of stories and plays, undated
Stories, undated
Story originals 1981 -1993
Box 13
Folder 57
Literary Drafts
Short stories 1984 - 1995
'Story Idea Originals', undated, with alternative heading ‘Bits of Stories Unfinished / Story Ideas’
‘Carina’s Story’, April 1994 (volume 1)
Beginning of biographical book extracted from diaries, 1990, with alternative heading ‘Dear Biographer’
Folder 58
Literary Drafts
Going to China’, with short note dated 13 July 1986
'Angelika’, inside front cover ‘For Angelika, Cover by Kez’, undated
Reviews and documentation of The Glass Inferno, 1991-1993; draft of 'Days in White' by Ingeborg Bachmann translated by Angelika Fremd-Wiese
'Ice' autobiographical poems and stories; early drafts 1984-1994
Folder 59
Literary Drafts
'Days in White: A Selection of Poems’ by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Angelika Fremd, with handwritten poems
Version 2 and 3 of ‘Ice’ manuscript
Children’s novel re-writing ‘Fire & Ice’ and comments by other people
Second draft of children’s novel ‘Fire & Ice'
Box 14
Folder 60
Literary Drafts
‘Ice’ – autobiographical poems and stories (book) – final draft
Draft of part 1 of Heartland trilogy
Folder 61
Literary Drafts
Part 2 of Heartland trilogy. Add ‘The Getting of Wisdom to Heartland’ (book) – final draft
Draft of part 3 of Heartland trilogy
Draft 5 of third book in Heartland serie[s] ‘The Change’ or ‘Dancing Kali Ma’
Folder 62
Literary Drafts
Draft 6 of third book in Heartland series
Box 15
Folder 63
Literary Drafts
Various drafts of Part 3 of Heartland trilogy
Folder 64
Literary Drafts
Book 3 in Heartland series (untitled); note inside cover: ‘Book 3 in Heartland series started off as ‘Dancing Kali Ma’ then written as ‘Carina’s Story’ and is now a new re-writing and coalescing of both, Sept. 94’
Ideas / pre-writing for book 4 in Heartland series, with alternative heading ‘On the Road to Canberra + Ideas for book [4]’
UQP [University of Queensland Press] proofs of Heartland novel
Folder 65
Literary Reviews
Reviews and documentation Heartland; 1989 - 1990
Folder 66
Literary Reviews
Reviews and documentation of The Glass Inferno; 1991 – 1992
Box 16
Folder 67
Literary Drafts
First draft of ‘Dancing Kali Ma’ 1992 / second draft of ‘Dancing Kali Ma’ – written with Fellowship of Australia Council in 1992
Background notes / diary notes / background materials for ‘Dancing Kali Ma’ – third novel in the Heartland quartet
'Kali Ma' re-write
Draft 7 ‘The Dance of Kali Ma’, Book 3 in ‘Heartland’ series
Folder 68
Literary Drafts
Draft 8 ‘Dance of Kali Ma’, Book 3 in ‘Heartland’ series, August [1995]
Draft 9 'Kali Ma'
Draft 10 of 'Kali Ma' edited in part by Helen Demidenko-Darville in July 1996
Folder 69
Literary Drafts
'The Dance of Kali Ma' draft 8. This draft has been read and assessed in 1995 by Rosanne Fitzgibbons – fiction editor of University of Queensland Press – comments are inside
The third book draft 8 'The Dance of Kali Ma'. This draft has been read and assessed by Bronwen Levy – senior lecturer of English Department of University of Queensland – comments are inside and in margins of manuscript’ (1995)
Final draft of ‘'The Dance of Kali Ma' placed with Random House + Allen & Unwin’ / 'Kali Ma' draft 10, 14 March 1996
Box 17
Folder 70
Literary Drafts
Volume 3 'Dancing Kali Ma’, 1992 /1993/1994
Draft 8/9 'Dance of Kali Ma', Book 3 in Heartland series, August 1995
Bits of 'Kali Ma' and plans for another book
Folder 71
Publications
Poems and stories published in books and magazines
Magazines edited / produced by Angelika Fremd 1986-89
Box 18
Folder 72
Publications
Magazines published in Vol. 1
Folder 73
Miscellaneous
Talks / Appearances / Interviews / Articles / Press clippings relating to Angelika Fremd
Audiovisual material
Box 19
1 audio-cassette tape - ‘Book Review: The Glass Inferno 3LO’