Name Michael Werner | Role Publisher | |
Bctv en interview mit hiwwe wie driwwe publisher dr michael werner
Michael Werner (born 1965) is the founder and publisher of the only existing Pennsylvania German newspaper, Hiwwe wie Driwwe. Being a Palatine German, members of his family had emigrated from the Palatinate (Germany) to the U.S. in the 19th century. In 1993, he became a student of Prof. C. Richard Beam, director of the "Center for Pennsylvania German Studies" at Millersville University (PA). In the same year, Werner started a private Archive for Pennsylvania German Literature in the Palatinate, Germany. In 1996, the newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe was founded by him in Ebertsheim, Palatinate (Germany). Actually, it is being published bi-annually. Since 1998, he is a member of the jury of the oldest Palatine Dialect Writers Contest in Bockenheim an der Weinstraße, Palatinate (Germany). In 2003, Michael Werner, who has a doctorate degree in linguistics, was one of the co-founders of the German-Pennsylvanian Association and the first president of the association (until 2010). Since 2008, Werner invites speakers of Pennsylvania German to give presentations about the language and culture in Germany. He lives in Ober-Olm in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and works as publishing director of a publishing company in Mainz. In 2013, "Hiwwe wie Driwwe" started a cooperation with Kutztown University (PA). In 2017, Werner donated his private archive of Pennsylvania German literature and folk life to the Mennonite Research Center at Weierhof (Palatinate, Germany), where it will be presented to the public as "Deutsch-Pennsylvanisches Archiv" (German-Pennsylvanian Archive).
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- Bctv en interview mit hiwwe wie driwwe publisher dr michael werner
- Snippet michael werner from the doc in the beginning there was light
- Works
- Awards and acknowledgements
- References