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Hiwwe wie Driwwe

Type	Newspaper
Owner	Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center
Founder	Michael Werner
Publisher	Michael Werner, Patrick Donmoyer
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Kutztown, Pennsylvania Ober-Olm, Germany
Circulation	2,000 bi-annually
Website	hiwwe-wie-driwwe.de

Hiwwe wie Driwwe, which means "Hither like thither" (compare German: Hüben wie Drüben), is the title of the only existing Pennsylvania German-language newspaper.

Publication

Since 1997, the publication is distributed twice a year. More than 100 Pennsylvania German authors—members of Lutheran and UCC churches as well as Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites—have already contributed pieces of prose, poems and newspaper articles. The founder and publisher is Michael Werner (Ober-Olm, Germany), who also served as president of the German-Pennsylvanian Association between 2003 and 2010. On their websites, one can find poems, stories, videos and lessons in the dialect. In 2011, Hiwwe wie Driwwe has created a "Hiwwe wie Driwwe Award for Pennsylvania German Literature" in cooperation with the Palatine Writers Contest in Bockenheim (Germany) and Kutztown University's Pennsylvania German Minor Program. Since 2013, Hiwwe wie Driwwe is printed in Pennsylvania, and in 2015, the editorial headquarter was moved to the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University.

Editors

The publication was founded in 1996. Since 2013, an editorial team is responsible for the whole publishing process.

• Donmoyer, Patrick (* 1985 / USA): Folk culture specialist, site manager at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center (Kutztown University), board member of Groundhog Lodge No. 1.
• Esther, Naomi (USA)(* 1990 / USA): Co-Worker at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center (Kutztown University)
• Madenford, Douglas (* 1980 / USA): High school teacher (High German), youtuber, blogger, author, musician.
• Quinter, Edward (* 1950 / USA): High school teacher (High German), author, co-organizer of the "Pennsylvania German Writing Festival" at the Kutztown Folk Festival.
• Richardson, Amanda (* 1987 / USA): Co-Worker at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center (Kutztown University).
• Werner, Michael (* 1965 / Germany): Publisher, journalist, author, translator, musician. Founder of the German-Pennsylvanian Archive, Hiwwe wie Driwwe, the German-Pennsylvanian Association and Grundsau Lodsch No. 19 im alte Land.

Website

The website was started in January 2002 and features various Pennsylvania German programs.

Winners of the Hiwwe wie Driwwe Award

The award is given by the jury of the Palatine Dialect Poets Contest in Bockenheim. (Palatinate, Germany).

Books

Hiwwe wie Driwwe's Featured Artist of the Year

Hiwwe wie Driwwe Palatinate Tour

Starting in 2008, in collaboration with the Emigration Museum in Oberalben (Auswanderermuseum Oberalben), Hiwwe wie Driwwe organized an annual lecture, reading or concert in October under the title German-Pennsylvanian History(s). Starting in 2010, this developed in the Hiwwe wie Driwwe Palatinate Tour, in which the featured guest(s) go on a four-day tour, performing in Ober-Olm (at the Old Town Hall), Oberalben (at the Emigration Museum), Bockenheim (at the Palatinate Dialect Poetry Competition), and ending with German-Pennsylvanian Day (organized by the German-Pennsylvanian Working Group Deutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis), which changes location each year. To date, the guests from the USA and Germany have been:

Hiwwe wie Driwwe Pennsylvania Tour

Since 2019 there has also been a “Pennsylvania Tour”, which takes artists from Germany on a concert or reading tour to Pennsylvania – and to the Kutztown Folk Festival. To date, the featured guests have been:

Scientific reception

David L Valuska & William Donner, Kutztown University (2004): "This journal and an associated internet site are leading sources for information about the Pennsylvania German language."^[1]

Patrick Donmoyer, Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University (2012): „Hiwwe wie Driwwe is the most widely-known dialect publication in the world for Pennsylvania German / Palatine German dialect, with a strong readership throughout the US, Canada and Europe."^[2]

C. Richard Beam, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Millersville University (2014): "Hiwwe wie Driwwe has succeeded in establishing a bridge between the Old and the New World and it has succeeded in the preservation of the Pennsylvania German dialect and culture."^[3]

Sheily Rohrer, Penn State University (2017): "Started as a newspaper by Michael Werner in Ebertsheim, Germany, Hiwwe wie Driwwe on the internet and in print has mediated a transnational conversation of dialect writers with one another."^[4]

Claire Noble, Colorado (2018): "In 1890, there were more than 1,000 German-language newspapers in America. Today, only a handful remains, such as Hiwwe wie Driwwe, the last remaining German newspaper in Pennsylvania."^[5]

References

External links

• Hiwwe wie Driwwe | Die Pennsylvanisch-Deitsch Zeiding
• Rheinland-Pfälzisches Literaturlexikon Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine