The Australische Zeitung was a weekly German-language newspaper published in Tanunda, South Australia from 1860 until it ceased publication during World War I in 1916 due to anti-German sentiment.
The long history of German language Australian newspapers reflects the considerable German-speaking population which settled in South Australia in the nineteenth century.
A rival, the Suedaustralische Zeitung was first published in Adelaide late 1849[3] by Otto Schomburgk[4] and Carl Muecke[5] and by Gustav Droege,[6] who also acted as editor.
[7] It was remarkable in its day for being printed in Roman type (and replacing umlauts with their two-letter equivalents) "as if to indicate its rejection of tradition" (or perhaps being the only typeface available), and was radical in its political views.
[7] The following year it was printed in traditional black letter type as Südaustralische Zeitung,[8] and the editor's name written as Gustav Dröge.
[21] (Johann) August Ludwig Kayser (died c. 20 February 1910) who arrived in Adelaide on the Grasbruch in 1860, married Cecilie Catharine Amalie Beecken in 1862, and was for a time headmaster of the Lyndoch Valley and Brighton schools, was on the paper's literary staff.