Guide to the Papers of Klaus Hueneke, c.1930-2019

Summary

Collection number:

MS Acc07.176, MS Acc15.121, MS Acc23.078

Creator:

Klaus Hueneke

Extent:

(19 ms boxes + 1 folio box + 2 shared folio boxes + 50 sound/av carriers)

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Klaus Hueneke, National Library of Australia, MS Acc07.176, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Part available for research; part permission required for research during the lifetime of Klaus Hueneke. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

This collection comprises correspondence; material relating to Hueneke's publications, including manuscripts, drafts, notes, reference material, offprints, pamphlets, maps, letters, reviews; personal documents; diaries; notebooks; family history papers including photographs and family letters in German; scrapbooks of press clippings; trip notes from archaeological dig; bushwalks and ski tours; drawings; speeches and talks.

The 2007 consignment comprises correspondence (re Snowy Mountains Scheme, Kosciusko etc), draft publications (Huts of the High Country, Beyond the Cotter etc), family history papers, photographs, school records, diaries, scrapbooks; Trip notes from archaeological dig, bushwalks and ski tours; drawings and speeches and talks given in the 1970s and 1980s.The 2015 consignment comprises thought diaries and field notebooks from 1991-2010, unpublished poetry and articles, a scrapbook of news clippings pertaining to the 2003 Canberra region bush-fires, manuscripts of several of Hueneke's published books, and correspondence.The 2023 consignment comprises an addition of diaries (1977-1998), manuscripts of published and unpublished books, correspondence, documents and drawings to the Papers of Klaus Hueneke.

Biographical / Historical:

Klaus Hueneke was born in Roflshagen, Germany, in 1944 and emigrated to Australia with his family in 1955. The family lived in country New South Wales and Hueneke was educated at Macquarie University and the Australian National University. He settled in Canberra in 1973. Hueneke has travelled extensively in the Australian Alps, photographing the landscape, conducting oral histories, and producing books about the area, its history and inhabitants. Hueneke's books include Beyond the Cotter: day adventures by car from Canberra to the Brindabella Mountains and beyond (with Allan J. Mortlock, 1979), Huts of the high country (1982), Kosciusko: where the ice-trees burn (1990), People of the Australian high country (with Graham Scully et al., 1994), and, Mountain landscapes and historic huts: Namadgi, Kosciuszko, Victorian Alps, Tasmania (2006). He has established his own press to publish his and others' works on the Australian Alps.

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4310309).

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 Klaus Hueneke, National Library of Australia, MS Acc07.176, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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