Guide to the Papers of Ulli and Georgina Beier

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MS Acc08.159

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Collection Summary

Creator
Ulli and Georgina Beier
Title
Papers of Ulli and Georgina Beier
Date Range
1965-2008
Collection Number
MS Acc08.159
Extent
1.5 metres (5 boxes + 1 folio box)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4594356).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Ulli and Georgina Beier, National Library of Australia, MS Acc08.159, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Item Descriptions

Letters - Georgina (File) - Box 1

1 file, containing handwritten, typed and photocopied letters from various correspondents in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Germany, the USA and Israel. The folder also includes some related material, such as certificates, off-prints, newspaper clippings and copies of correspondence from Georgina Beier and the contents are dated from July 1971 to June 2008. The folder includes annotations by Georgina and Ulli Beier.

Papua New Guinea letters (File) - Box 1

1 file, containing handwritten, typed and photocopied letters from various correspondents from Senegal, Nigeria, Fiji and New Zealand. The folder also includes copies of correspondence from Ulli and Georgina Beier and the contents are dated from July 1969 to February 2008. The folder includes annotations by Georgina and Ulli Beier.

Letters Oshogbo: 1 Duro Ladipo and first Oshogbo artists 2 Nike Centre artists (File) - Box 1

1 file, containing mainly handwritten, some typed and photocopied, letters and greeting cards from various correspondents, mainly in Nigeria. The folder also includes some related material, such as newspaper clippings, photographs and copies of correspondence from Georgina Beier and the contents are dated from December 1965 to March 2005. The folder includes annotations by Georgina and Ulli Beier.

Letters: Friends, writers, oddities (File) - Box 2

1 file, containing handwritten, typed, faxed and photocopied letters from various correspondents. The letters are from African, English, West Indian, American, Indian and European photographers, actors, scholars, collectors, artists, architects and musicians. The folder also includes some related material, such as off-prints, programs, cover art and photographs as well as some copies of correspondence from Georgina Beier. The contents are dated from January 1969 to June 2008. The folder includes annotations by Georgina and Ulli Beier.

Letters Ben-Ami Scharfstein (File) - Box 2

1 file, containing mainly faxed, typed, photocopied letters and emails from Professor Scharfstein and replies from Ulli and Georgina Beier, 2002-2005. The folder also includes some related material, such as offprints, copies of drawings and artworks, many by Professor Scharfstein.

Migila (File) - Box 3

1 file of photographs of, fliers and invitations to musical performances, art exhibitions, film screenings, concerts, poetry recitals and events mainly at Migila, the Beier's house at 46 Johnston Street Annandale, NSW but also at other Sydney venues including the Goethe Institut, Anadolu Galleries, Off Broadway Theatre, Annandale Neighbourhood Centre, Conservatorium of Music, and in Canberra at the Australian National University. The folder includes related material such as detailed information about Ugandan songs and Yoruba drums and covers events during the period 1980-1987.

Migila (File) - Box 3

1 file of mounted fliers and invitations to concerts, poetry recitals, dance performances and events mainly at Migila, the Beier's house at 46 Johnston Street Annandale, NSW but also at other Sydney venues including the Goethe Institut, Woollahra, Ray Hughes Gallery and College of Fine Arts dated 1998 to 2005.

The Art of Four Generations - an unrealized project Volume 1 (File) - Box 4

1 file containing a proof copy of Dreaming Pictures compiled by Ulli Beier about the art of Solomon Cocky, Gladys Corunna, Sally Morgan and Blaze Morgan with an annotation by Ulli Beier about his work with Sally Morgan to compile the book, for which she subsequently withdrew permission for publication.

The Art of Four Generations - an unrealized project Volume 2 (File) - Box 4

1 file containing copies, slides and photographs of artworks by Solomon Cocky, Gladys Corunna, Sally Morgan and Blaze Morgan intended for publication in the book.

Georgina Beier: Kauage's stories, Onglo's stories (File) - Box 5

1 file containing Kauage's Stories (38pp, illus., spiral bound) original typed transcriptions from Georgina's tape recorded conversations with the artist Mathias Kauage and original annotated photocopied proof. Also a short typescript of the stories of Barnabas India and an annotated typescript of Stories by William Onglo, translated by Georgina Beier, including copies of illustrations by Onglo and his original handwritten stories in Pidgin.

Ulli Beier Radio programmes (File) - Box 5

1 file containing annotated typed scripts for Deutsche Welle radio programmes on dying cultures: Suicide of a culture: the drama of Orokolo; Can cultures be revived? The Gogodala of Papua; Death by assimilation: the Aboriginals of Australia; Commercialised tradition: the folk arts of India

And annotated typed scripts for Deutsche Welle radio plays: The murder of the sun; The innocent colonialist; Brief encounter

And for ABC Radio Drama and Features mimeographed script: Poetry as invocation

Interviews (File) - Box 5

1 file containing annotated typed and copied transcripts of interview by Ulli Beier with Nja Madhaoui, Anthony Mannix, Charles Euchu, Eugene Iheanacho, Trude Aspeling, Satsuki Odamura, Colin Offord and Matthew Doyle.

Bayreuth African Studies (File) - Folio 6

Five publications in the series edited by Ulli and Georgina Beier or concerning them: A dreaming life: an autobiography of Twins Seven-seven (no. 52); The monkey thinks the hunter is not wise (no. 59); Yoruba poetry (no. 62); Omoluabi: Ulli Beier, Yoruba society and culture (no. 66); They keep their fires burning (no. 72)

Various spiral bound compilations by Ulli and Georgina Beier (File) - Folio 6

Four conversations on Yoruba culture with Wole Soyinka, 1992; Femi Abodunrin: iconography of order and disorder, 1996; A young man can have the embroidered gown of an elder - but he can't have the rags of an elder, 1991; Thanacoupie: four autobiographical essays 2007; Tapa: eine frauenkunst im Sudpazifik 1996; Encounters with Aboriginal Australians, volumes 1-3

Various staple bound compilations by Ulli and Georgina Beier or published from Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth (File) - Folio 6

Azaria Mbatha: Art and identity, 1994; Gift Orakpo, 1994; Nike, 1991; Asiru Olatunde, 1992; Ibrahim el Salahi: Identity and exile,1990; Uli: traditional wall painting and modern art from Nigeria, 1990; Bisi Fabunmi, 1989; Yoruba textile art, 1993; Segun Faleye: a Yoruba wood carver 1994; Configura 2: a conversation between Obiora Udechukwu & Ulli Beier, 1995; Femi Abodunrin: Esu-elegbara and the carnivalesque, 1995; Godfey B. Tangwa: African philosophy in a western frame, 1996; Chief Councillor Twins Seven-Seven [n.d]; Albert Noah Messomo: The crisis of Cameroonian culture [1995]; Albert Noah Messomo: Can traditional music survive in Cameroon, 1995; Aina Pavolini-Taylor: Transformations : textile art by georgina Beier, 1993; Georgina Beier: Iwalewa, 1989; Painting pillars, 1995; Rowland Abiodun: Creating her own universe, 1991; Ibrahim el Salahi: Magic without tricks, 1991; Georgina Beier: Ausstellung im Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, 1983; The hunter thinks the monkey is not wise - a bibliography of writings 1996.

Publications illustrated by Georgina Beier (File) - Folio 6

Kazuko Winter: Wir Kochen Afrikanisch, 1989; The moon cannot fight: Yoruba children's poems; The dance of the birds, 1973.


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