63 research outputs found
Pretoriana, no. 019, April 1956
No full textEditorial -- Jaarverslag=Annual report -- Die Rustenburgse Kruger-standbeeld / H.M. Rex -- Memories III / T.J. Rodd
Pretoriana, no. 036 & 037, Aug.-Dec 1961
No full textHerinneringe aan die eerste uitgawe van Pretoriana / J. Ploeger -- Dr. Jan Ploeger, 'n gewaardeerde medewerker / H.M. Rex -- Key to index = Sleutel tot die register -- Use of index : an explanatory note -- Subject index = Sakeregister -- Index of authors = Register van outeurs -- Wierdastraat / J. Ploeger -- Annual report, 1961 = Jaarsverslag, 196
Pretoriana, no. 18, Dec. 1955
No full textDie Eeufeesjaar is verby / W. Punt -- Albert Brodrick : winkelier en digter van ou-Pretoria /H.M. Rex -- Memories II / by Mrs T.J. Rodda -- Wie was hulle? -- Kleinenberg en Kleynenberg
Pretoriana, volume 4, no. 3
No full textEditorial : Inertia -- Jaarverslag van die Genootskap Oud-Pretoria -- Annual report of the Association Old Pretoria -- Die vervaardiging, aanbrenging en verwydering van die oorspronklike Republikeinse wapen en leuse op die voorgewel van die Goewermentsgebou / H.M. Rex -- Herinneringe van Mevr. Katharina Cornelia Peters-Louis / J. Ploeger -- Oblomov en die per
Survival : 1933-1945.
No full textAutobiography in German, French and English with illustrations by the author and reproductions of photos and documents.Family history in Becherbach, Germany going back to the 18th century. The author's father Ludwig David Moritz served in World War One. He got married to Klara Kaufmann in 1929. Birth of their sons Alfred and Ernst. Rise of Nazism. In 1936 Alfred was enrolled in the public school of Becherbach. Confrontation with anti-Jewish laws and regulations. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the maternal Kaufmann family in Cologne. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and arrest of his father. Ludwig Moritz was taken to Dachau concentration camp, where he was interned for three months. His sons Alfred and Ernst were taken to safety by their uncle Hermann Wolf in Luxemburg. His parents followed after the release of their father from Dachau. German invasion of Belgium, Luxemburg and France in 1940. Escape to Southern France. Ludwig Moritz was interned in the camp Les Milles near Aix en Provence. Alfred and Ernst were enrolled in the local public school in St. Lizaigne. Life in hiding in Issoudun, where their father's brother had a clothes business. Alfred and Ernst were sent to the Jewish children relief organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours de l'Enfance). With support of the French resistence movement new identity cards were issued for the two siblings, which stated them being of French descendent. Life in hiding in the countryside of Vernoux/Vivarais. They were enrolled in a public school and in the local Catholic sunday school of Vernoux. End of the war and final reunion with their parents.The architect Alfred Moritz was born in Becherbach, Germany. He survived the war in hiding in the French countryside and was reunited with his parents after the war. The author lived in the United States.Synopsis in fileMoses familyDijonLyonEmigration and immigration, 1933-1945, LuxemburgEmigration and immigration, 1933-1945, FranceEmigration and immigration, after 1945, United StatesFrench Resistance movements, WarGermany, history, 1933-1945Holocaust, survivorsMilliner
Die lewe en werk van Sytze Wopkes Wierda in Nederland met verwysing na sy betekenis vir die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Afrikaans)
No full textThesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2008.Sytze Wopkes Wierda, a native of the Dutch province of Friesland, was born in Hemrik on February 28, 1839. In the year of his birth, he was baptised in the historic Hervormde church at Hemrik, the same church in which his parents, at middle age, publicly professed to the articles of their faith. Sytze Wierda came from a Frisian working-class background. In 1862 he started work as a carpenter in Drachten. From this humble beginning, Wierda progressed to Clerk of Works Extraordinary (“Buitengewoon Opzichter”) in 1866 and within one decade to Chief Clerk of Works (“Hoofdopzichter”) when the Netherlands government railways were built. From 1887 to 1900 he served with distinction as Chief of the Department of Public Works of the South African Republic and also gained recognition as architect and author in the land of his birth. Sytze Wierda was the fifth child of Wopke Sjerps Wierda (1800-1859) of Hemrik, a casual labourer and part-time butcher during the winter months. His mother was Pietertje Roelofs de Vries (1806-18790. The father’s side of the family was of old Frisian origin. After a primary school education in the district of Opsterland, his training as a carpenter started. This was partly completed in Appelscha in about 1858. In November 1860, he left Wijnjeterp for the city of Groningen where he worked as a carpenter’s apprentice until 1861. It is presumed that he also studies carpentry and architecture at the Groningen “Volksindustrischool”. From there he moved to the village of Winsum, in the same province, where he worked as a carpenter’s assistant before returning to his parental home at Wijnjeterp. As a qualified carpenter, he established himself in Drachten in 1862 and married Harmke Tjibbeles Kamp (1839, Drachten – 1926, Johannesburg). In about 1862, the year of his marriage, he became a member of the Christelijk Gereformeerde Kerk, of which his wife and her family were ardent members. In Drachten, he worked as a carpenter and studies architecture under town architect Duursma at the local drawing school until h moved to Enschedé in the province of Overijssel in 1865 to be employed as a carpenter and draughtsman by one of the railway contractors. While working at Hengelo station, section Engineer Janssen noticed that Wierda, while engaged in constructional drawing, had revealed a marked degree of judgment, knowledge of construction and general competence. He was recommended for appointment by the government as Clerk of Works Extraordinary to the railway project at Enschedé. He remained in this position from January 1866 to May 1867, on the Hengelo – Glanerbeek section and was then transferred to Alkmaar in the province of North Holland. In 1867, he was promoted to Clerk of Works Second Class (“Opzichter 2e Klasse”) and up to 1870 played a part in the construction of railway works and buildings in the Zaan region and the bridging of the North Sea Canal. In 1870, the Wierda family moved to Amsterdam, and from that year to 1875 Wierda acted as Clerk of Works First Class (“Opzichter 1e Klasse”). From 1875 to 1887 as Chief Clerk of Works he was occupied with the completion of the railway line from Zaandam to Amsterdam including the works and buildings in the Netherlands capital. This was in addition to the Central Station in the “Openhavenfront” and the Central Goods Station in the “Stads Rietlande”). While employed in Amsterdam he found time to write a book entitled “Belgische Industrie”, and to keep up family correspondence, to serve as a member of a local School-Committee, as well as to assist in the architectural training of Klaas and Pieter van Rijsse of Zaandam. Apart from his 22 years’ supervisory work on the Government Railways, he found time during the 1860’s for his first love, architecture and employed his talents in this direction. As a licensed architect he participated in architectural competitions and in the course of time also designed private houses, teachers’ dwellings and school buildings. With experience and confidence, Wierda found himself competing with leading architects for the designing of foreign and local public buildings including such notable structures as exchange buildings in Frankfurt am Main and Amsterdam around the year 1880. He designed churches from 1873 to 1886 for the Christelijk Gereformeerde parishes of Zaandam, Baarn, Hijum, Nieuwendijk, Emlichheim (Germany) and ‘s-Hertogenbosch. All of these churches are still in existence today. After his interest, as Hollander, in the restoration of the independence of the “Boerevolk”, had been stimulated in 1881 and while he was seeking pastures new for his talents and experience as railways constructor and architect, he secured the support of Hendrik Bürhmann in his application as Government Engineer and Architect (“Gouvernements Ingenieur and Architect”) of the South African Republic. On November 1, 1887 he assumed office. From 1887, the year in which he became a member of the Royal Institute of Engineers (“Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs”), to 1900, Wierda not only acted as head of a fast d4eveloping state department, but he was personally involved in the design of several government buildings including the now famous Government Buildings (“Staatsgebouw” or “Raadsaal”) on Church Square, Pretoria. Besides this, he also designed other state buildings in various Transvaal towns. His reputation as architect of public buildings in the South African Republic was firmly established within a few years after his arrival in Pretoria. Architects and draughtsmen of Dutch origin – including Klaas van Rijsse Jnr. – played an active part in the 1890’s under the inspired and expert guidance of Sytze Wierda, as the specific architecture of the South African Republic took form. Extending his activities as architect of public buildings, Wierda took a lead in the planning of transport facilities, including a network of roads, the designing and building of bridges and the designing of the unique Paardekraal Monument at Krugersdorp, an achievement of enduring significance. This represented Wierda’s contribution to South Africa’s cultural and historical heritage. The fact that the most valuable of Wierda’s works stand today as proclaimed historical monuments is a tribute to the ability of the Dutch-born “Gouvernements Ingenieur en Architect” and “Hoofd van Publieke Werken” of the South African Republic.Afrikaansunrestricte
Pretoriana, no. 081, July 1981
No full textAmajuba centenary issueAmajuba : skildery -- Begrafnis : Dr. W.H.J. Punt -- Slag by Laingsnek en Amajuba / H.B.K. Hermann -- Generaal Piet Joubert en Amajuba / F.J.du T. Spies -- Wat Mevrou Gen. Joubert vertelt -- Generaal Nicolaas Jacobus Smit -- Militêre leiers van die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog -- The Illustratated London news, February 1881 -- Toespraak van die Administrateur W.A. Cruywagen -- Mount Prospect military cemettry [sic]-- The Battle of Amajuba -- Verklaring van Rooihuiskraal as nasionale gedenkwaardigheid, 12 Februarie 1991 -- Stephanus Johannes Roos -- Joachim Johannes Ferreira / N.A/ Coetzee -- Dr. E.J.P. Jorissen -- C.R. de Wet, M.W. Pretorius -- Ligging van Fort Royal / H.M. Rex -- Die vroue deputasie met die Rebellie 1915 na Generaal Smuts -- Wonderboompoort : die voordeur van Pretoria / Hettie Cillie -- 'n Half-vergete stukkie geskiedenis / Hettie Cillie -- Kommdt. Jopie Fourie : monument by De Wildt -- Geslagsregister van Jopie Fourie -- OOrhandiging van ou tronkdeure, Potgieterstraat, aan Genootskap Oud-Pretoria -- Tronke van Pretoria -- Lys van Rebelle, 1914-1915 -- Jaarverslag = Annual report -- Tuinboukompetisi
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Pretoriana, no. 055 Dec. 1967
No full textDr. T.S. van Rooyen -- Die straatname van die Pretoriase voorstad Danville-uitbreiding no. 2 / G.J. van Eck -- Lys van besienswaardighede in Pretoria / H.M. Rex -- Skooltuinekompetisie 1967 -- Jaarverslag van die Genootskap Oud-Pretoria / N.A. Coetzee -- Lotgevalle van die Staatsmodelskoolgebou, 1909-1931 / J. Ploeger -- Old Pretoria Society constitutio
Pretoriana, no. 022 Dec. 1956
No full textAn open-air museum for Pretoria -- An association Old Benoni? -- The open-air museum / F.J. du Toit Spies -- The Netherlands open-air museum -- Diverse gegewens i.v.m. die oprigting en opening van die Staats-modelskool / H.M. Rex -- Die skerm- en gimnastiekvereniging Transvalia / J. Ploeger -- Pretoriuskloof / H.M. Rex -- 'n Gedenksteen vir landdros Du Toit -- Die grafsteen van Graaf Pretoriu
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