Dirk Römmer

Dirk Römmer (* 1943 in Kirchwerder in Vierlande ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and Low German author , speaker and moderator . In the 1980s, the pastor hosted the NDR talk show Talk op Platt .

Life

The son of a vegetable farmer and a teacher grew up in Hamburg. He studied theology in Hamburg and Heidelberg .

From the 1960s Römmer was pastor in Hamburg. In addition, he began writing in Low German in the 1970s, wrote volumes of stories and translated Bible texts and books into Low German, including as records.

From the first episode in April 1982, where he moderated alongside Ewald Christophers and Gerlind Rosenbusch , Römmer was regularly involved in the NDR format Talk op Platt . After changing to the church service abroad ( Sydney ) in 1990, he gave up his role as a moderator in 1991. He later returned to Germany as a student pastor and project manager at the West Coast University of Applied Sciences in Heide .

Dirk Römmer is a member of the advisory board of the Fritz Reuter Society . Since the general assembly in 2013 he has been chairman of the Institute for Low German , based in Bremen.

Römmer is married and lives as a retired pastor in Tönning . His wife Gisela Mester-Römmer is also a retired pastor and most recently held a pastor's position at St. Laurentius Church .

Honors

• 2015: Johannes Gillhoff Prize

Works

• Wees nich bang: Een Handvull Plattdüütsch för Kark and Karkendag , Ed .: Dirk Römmer, Breklumer Verlag, Breklum 1981
• Speel mi nich op: Weird tones and pious ways , Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster 1984
• No boomerang kummt trüch , Quickborn-Verlag , Hamburg, 2000, ISBN 3-87651-228-X
• Swartsuer: Ton Gräsen, Gruveln, Grienen , ed .: Bolko Bullerdiek and Dirk Römmer, Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-356-00969-9
• Veraten vun de Free un Hansestadt Hamborg , translated into Low German by Bolko Bullerdieck and Dirk Römmer. Ed .: State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2002
• Op de anner Sied vun de Welt , Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87651-244-1
• Dat lütte Wiehnachtsbook ; Ed .: Gesche Scheller , authors: Gerd Bahr , Ines Barber , Hein Blomberg , Reimer Bull , Heike Fedderke , Hans-Jürgen Forster , Irmgard Harder , Christa Heise-Batt , Rudolf Kinau , Dirk Römmer, Gerd Spiekermann and Günter Timm , Quickborn- Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87651-335-5 .
• Looks ok! , Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-87651-339-3
• Gertrud mutt still afhangen , Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87651-358-4
• Emily un dat Meer - Emily und das Meer by Andrea Reitmeyer , translated by Dirk Römmer, Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8337-2937-9
• Emily, de Wind en de Wellen - Emily, the wind and the waves by Andrea Reitmeyer, translated by Dirk Römmer, Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8337-3388-8
• Vun Huus un Hoff in de Welt rümbutschern , BS Verlag Rostock , Bargeshagen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86785-378-1
• Emily op´n Buernhoff - Emily on the farm by Andrea Reitmeyer, translated by Dirk Römmer, Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8337-3687-2

Sound carrier

• That hard knocks up: Low German Christmas carols (record 33 rpm), speaker: Dirk Römmer, Maske Media, Hamburg 1986

literature

• Falko Weerts Dat Talk op Platt Book , Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel 2001, ISBN 3-89882-005-X

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Römmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dirk Römmer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Institute for Low German from June 26, 2013
2. ↑ Prize winners. In: johannes-gillhoff.de. Retrieved December 17, 2019.