Bunge Family Album , photographer Reinhold Hofmann
The Bartel family working cheerfully in the outside washing area at Narrowneck Camp . ( This photo and the image on page 217 were given as mementos to Christine Bartel ’ s close friend , Mary Kramer-Walter , who became Mrs Bunge ( see Mary on the next page ).
The Bartel family appears to have been repatriated to Germany on board the ship “ ss Matua ” in March 1920 . In Germany , Max and Christine added a daughter to the family , Fuatino , a taupou name from Aleipata where Christine ’ s mother had her roots . The children grew to adulthood in Germany and Gunther had a daughter called Juliane Bartel , who became a well known radio and television journalist ( Juliane ’ s life is commemorated in a prominent news media prize in Germany ). From the 1920s onwards Christine Kruse Bartel became a leading light in the closely-knit ex-Samoa community in Germany . She paid a return visit to Apia in about 1960 , where she was widely feted . Daughter , Fuatino , became an actress .
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