Hiwwe like Driwwe - Palatine in America
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hiwwe like Driwwe - Palatine in America |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English , Pennsylvania Dutch , Palatinate |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Benjamin Wagener, Christian Schega |
| production | Christian Schega, Benjamin Wagener |
| music | pennsylvaniadeutsche folk songs |
| camera | Benjamin Wagener |
| cut | Benjamin Wagener |
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Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pfälzisch in Amerika is a German documentary by filmmakers Benjamin Wagener and Christian Schega from 2019.
The preview took place on August 8, 2018 in the plenary hall of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament in Mainz . The premiere took place on April 13, 2019 in the presence of the protagonist Douglas Madenford and the two directors Benjamin Wagener and Christian Schega in the Universum Kinocenter in Landau in the Palatinate .
action
Hiwwe like Driwwe - Palatinate in America accompanies Douglas Madenford on a search for traces of the Palatinate language and culture through his American homeland and the Palatinate. On this trip he meets a cook in America who prepares Palatinate Saumagen , or a teacher who teaches Pennsylvania Dutch . In Germany he meets the linguist Michael Werner , who has been intensively involved with the language for many years, and meets Christian "Chako" Habekost , who is known as a Palatinate comedian even beyond the borders of the Palatinate language area. It is always about the question of what still connects the descendants of the Palatinate emigrants of the 18th century and the descendants of those who remained in the Palatinate after 300 years of separation.
background
About 300 years ago, many people from the Palatinate fled to the USA both from political persecution and for economic reasons and settled mainly in and around the state of Pennsylvania (see Pennsilfaani Deitsche ). They also brought their language and culture with them to the New World . To date, around 400,000 Americans speak a variant of the Palatinate dialect: Pennsylvania Dutch. The film was therefore shot in four languages in the original language: Pennsylvania Dutch and Palatinate , Standard German and English . The film title takes up the name of the only Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe like Driwwe and was created in cooperation with the editorial team.
The film project was funded by, among others, the Kulturstiftung Rheinland-Pfalz , the Bezirksverband Pfalz , the Sparkassen Stiftung Germersheim-Kandel and numerous crowdfunders.
Older projects
In terms of film, the subject of “Pennsylvania Dutch” was first treated in Germany by Georg Brintrup. His 60-minute German film essay from 1982 is called “Penn'a Du” - an abbreviation for “Pennsylvania Dutch” that is common in the USA. The first broadcast of "Penn'a Du" took place on October 1, 1982 on WDR . The American premiere of the German and English versions was on November 6, 1982 in the Wismer Auditorium at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Further television broadcasts followed on German television stations until 1983. In the USA, the English version was broadcast by independent, local television stations, such as the WFMZ, in southeastern Pennsylvania. In 2015 Michael Werner, editor of the Pennsylvania German newspaper “Hiwwe wie Driwwe”, published the 30-minute video clip “Pennsylvanian-Deitsch in 2015” on YouTube, which more than 100,000 people have now viewed online. Here, too, the members of the editorial team - in addition to Werner, Douglas Madenford and Patrick Donmoyer - work in front of the camera. Musician and Pennsylvania German teacher Keith Brintzenhoff is the only person to be seen in the documentary from 1982 as well as in the project “Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Palatinate in America”, which was completed in 2018.
Film tour
Since April 14, 2019 the film has been shown in cinemas in around 20 cities in Rhineland-Palatinate , Baden-Württemberg and Saarland , including in Frankenthal , Germersheim , Heidelberg , Kaiserslautern , Karlsruhe , Landau, Mannheim , Neustadt , Pirmasens , Saarbrücken and Worms . Although “Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Palatinate in America” was initially only shown in 12 regional cinemas, the documentary also pushed American blockbusters out of the programs and went straight to 37th place in the German cinema charts in the first week.
The US premiere took place in July 2019 in Kutztown , Pennsylvania . The film was then shown at the German Consulate in New York, the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and some cinemas and historical associations in Berks County and Lancaster County.
The DVD went on sale in December 2019. On May 19, 2020, the SWR (Mainz) showed a 45-minute short version of the documentation under the title "Driwwe im neie Land" in its evening program.
Film festivals
The documentary was shown at the following film festivals:
- WaLa Film Festival (Ladenburg) 2019
- Arc Film Festival (Mainz) 2019
- Festival of German Films (Ludwigshafen am Rhein) 2019
Web links
- Hiwwe like Driwwe Official film site
- Hiwwe like Driwwe on YouTube , accessed April 4, 2019.
- Hiwwe like Driwwe Pennsylvania-German newspaper (since 1997)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Parliament presents film documentation on language and culture , Focus, July 19, 2018.
- ^ Hiwwe wie Driwwe Film premiere in Landau, Universum Kinocenter, accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ↑ "Hiwwe wie Driwwe" editor Michael Werner in an interview at the Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz on YouTube , accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ↑ Hiwwe like Driwwe , Startnext, Crowd Funding Filmprojektseite, accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ^ Hiwwe like Driwwe The Pennsylvania German Newspaper (pennsylvania-deutsch)
- ^ Hiwwe like Driwwe on the official website of the German Wine Route, accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629356/
- ^ Film on Penna. German premieres at Ursinus , Spring City Reporter, Wednesday, October 13, 1982
- ↑ Penna. German Topic of Film Set at Ursinus , The Times Herald, Tuesday, October 19, 1982
- ^ Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pennsylvanian-German in 2015
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen from May 10, 2019, page 25, Palatinate film depends on US films , ( online )
- ^ Hiwwe like Driwwe Kinotour 2019
- ↑ Hiwwe wie Driwwe - The Roots of the Pennsylvania Dutch at German Consulate General New York, June 18, 2019. (English)
- ↑ Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Documentary Screening at The German Society of Pennsylvania, June 29, 2019. (English)
- ↑ https://programm.ard.de/TV/Untertitel/Nach-Rubriken/Dokus--Reportagen/Alle-Dokus/?sendung=282313027554555