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The True Story Behind Ubin’s German Girl Shrine
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A young German girl met an untimely end on Pulau Ubin in 1914. A shrine set up in her honour becomes Internet-famous. Following a deep search into the historical records, writer and researcher William Gibson discovers some inconvenient truths behind one of Singapore’s best-known shrines.
Dr William L. Gibson is a former Lee Kong Chian research fellow. Based in Southeast Asia since 2005, he is the author of Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore (Routledge, September 2024) and Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898–1906 (Routledge, 2021). His articles have appeared in Signal to Noise, PopMatters.com, The Mekong Review, Archipel, History and Anthropology, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient and BiblioAsia, among others.
What William Talked About
- 02:23 – Whom the shrine is dedicated to
- 04:07 – How William knew of the shrine and began research on it
- 06:44 – Different versions of the story behind the shrine
- 11:07 – Termite mounds as sites of worship
- 16:13 – How the German girl shrine became well-known
- 17:36 – Films inspired by the shrine
- 21:45 – How the shrine changed after the 2015 renovation
- 24:51 – What William prays for at the shrine
- 25:35 – What William is working on now
- 28:27 – Most unexpected offering William has seen at shrines
- 29:56 – The shrine William would make a film on, if he can
- 30:49 – Historical memory and the importance of vernacular traditions
Transcript and Resources
- Read the transcript: https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/podcast/the-german-girl-shrine/transcript/
- Read the BiblioAsia article on biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/podcast/german-girl-shrine.
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This episode of BiblioAsia+ was hosted by Jimmy Yap and produced by Soh Gek Han. Sound engineering was done by One Dash. The background music "Di Tanjong Katong" was composed by Osman Ahmad and performed by Chords Haven. Special thanks to William for coming on the show.
BiblioAsia+ is a podcast about Singapore history by the National Library of Singapore.
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