Institute for Low German

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INS Institute for Low German Language in Bremen

The Institute for Low German Language , INS for short, is a supraregional scientific institution for the preservation and promotion of Low German language , literature and culture . The INS cooperates with schools, kindergartens, authors, pastors, musicians, media and theater people as well as with clubs and associations. Together with them, the INS initiates, accompanies and coordinates projects that pursue the goal of developing current and attractive offers in Low German. In addition, the institute forms the management of the Federal Council for Nedderdüütsch .

The institute, which also maintains a library, is based in Bremen . The chairman is Reinhard Goltz , his deputy Christiane Ehlers.

founding

The institute in the Schnoor

When it was founded in 1972, two colloquia took place, the first with the title Low German - Present with Future? and that with the title Low German - Applied Practice in Our Society Today . In November 1972, the founding meeting took place in the Bremer Stadtwaage . The constituent general assembly followed in 1973. Work started in 1974.

A founding advisory board was involved in the establishment of the company, which consisted of the following people: Joachim Arp, Ivo Braak , Dieter Möhn, Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , Claus Schuppenhauer, Rolf Speckmann , Heinrich Wesche , Harm Wiemann and Wolfgang Lindow .

Areas of responsibility

The main tasks of the institute are to maintain and promote the Low German language. In order to achieve this goal, they conduct public relations and press work, for example, so that the language and topics related to Low German are made public. This also includes numerous projects and events that are planned and carried out jointly with other institutions and networks, such as schools, kindergartens, clubs, associations, etc. What is particularly important here is bringing together and supporting information and contact work, both within the Low German language - and cultural maintenance as well as outside language and national borders with comparable institutions. In addition, there are daily inquiries about Low German that are processed; various organizations hold their working meetings in the house, and groups or individuals repeatedly come to the INS Council. Twice a week, the Low German News is also presented on Radio Bremen by employees of the INS (currently Reinhard Goltz and Christiane Ehlers). In addition, the INS publishes its own works, mainly in cooperation with the Schuster Verlag in Leer (East Friesland) until 2013 .

Library

Another large area of ​​responsibility is the documentation and collection of Low German language certificates, some of which are also scientifically analyzed. Contemporary works have priority. The library currently comprises around 25,000 media units. The reference library collects all works that have been published in Low German or are partly in Low German or have a topic on a region in which Low German is spoken.
The library offers books on the following subjects: Low German literature, anthologies, bibliographies, stage texts, fiction, linguistic folk art, church literature, theater / theater studies, texts for school, music, small letters, dictionaries, reports, documentations, magazines, periodicals, catalogs, calendars , Yearbooks, posters / postcards, specialist periodicals, general and Low German linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, small languages ​​(except Low German), linguistic history, secondary literature on the Low German language and literature and secondary literature on general dialectology, language, literary and cultural history. In addition, there are radio plays, radio scripts, sound carriers (in the form of records, CDs, cassettes, etc.), films / recordings (in the form of VHS, DVDs, CDs, etc.), examination papers and games. The library was renovated in summer 2012, and the central room now offers more space for meetings and meetings.

Projects

The INS served and serves as a project partner in numerous projects. It supports the internet learning platform for pupils Plattolio , the action alliance Platt is cool and their Low German band contest Plattsounds . One example of a current project is the theater authors' workshop for Low German theater . Together with the Low German stage associations , the theater publisher Mahnke and the regional associations of the Federation of German Amateur Theaters, up-and- coming authors were trained and supervised by professional theater instructors in fields such as basic dramaturgical knowledge and skills in scenic and dialogical writing. Another project is the Low German map. Here the names of a large number of North German places are given in High German and Low German, the latter is supplemented by phonetic transcription and a sound recording. Information on institutions and information about individual cities complete the offer.

financing

The INS is supported by the state through a framework agreement. In 2012, the funds were made up as follows: Institutional funding came from the federal states of Lower Saxony , Schleswig-Holstein , Hamburg and Bremen , and a subsidy was provided by the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association . Funding comes from the federal government or the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bremen for individual projects. In addition, there are own and third-party funds from membership fees, sales proceeds, fees and donations. In 2012 the budget comprised income and expenditure of around € 360,000 each.

In mid-2016, the federal states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein announced that they would end the previous financial support of the INS in the amount of 272,000 euros at the end of 2017. At the end of 2016, after a meeting, the four donor countries announced that the Institute for Low German could become the nucleus for a coordination office for the maintenance of the Low German language . The new facility is to be under public law and the seat in Bremen is to be retained.

In 2017 it became clear that the INS is currently less important in the project of the four donor countries. Instead, a non-profit GmbH was founded for the new regional center for Low German , which will initially have its seat at the Bremen cultural authority. The continuation of the INS is unclear.

cooperation

From 1987 until German reunification, there was a short-lived cooperation between the Bremen INS and the Mecklenburg Folklore Center (MFZ) in Rostock, limited to mutual official delegation visits. It came about on the initiative of Bremen's Mayor Klaus Wedemeier , was personally approved by the GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker and was soon embedded in the newly established Bremen-Rostock city ​​partnership . Like the town twinning itself, the INS / MFZ cooperation was closely monitored from the start by the Rostock district administration of the GDR State Security . Unofficial employees (IM) were given the task of “skimming” the then INS managing directors Wolfgang Lindow and Claus Schuppenhauer from the intelligence service, also to other Low German associations and organizations with connections to the GDR, in particular the Lübeck Fritz Reuter Society and the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft . The Stasi reported most intensively from the INS and on the contacts with Lindow and Schuppenhauer IM “Monika Turm” ( Marion Schmidt , the then head of the Mecklenburg Folklore Center).

The results of the IM contacts with Lindow and Schuppenhauer can be found in the Stasi files on the “security complex care of the Low German language”. It is stated in it that the INS representatives in the talks with their cooperation partners in the GDR “spoke out against the abuse of Low German by revanchist forces in the FRG”. The Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft, the Mecklenburg Foundation and the Fritz Reuter Society (FRG) are listed as “revanchist forces”. Regarding the activities of the FRG, which in the late eighties already had numerous GDR citizens among its members, it is noted in the Stasi files that the "management members" of the INS (Lindow / Schuppenhauer) considered these activities as "interference in the internal affairs of the GDR ”.

At the beginning of 1991, Wolfgang Lindow spoke about the past times and the circumstances and complained that it was “perfidious” that today “those who had previously tried to maintain the cultural connection were placed on the side of the Stasi helpers”. Lindow: "Of course we knew that our official contacts to the Folklore Center as well as my long-term private connections to many Low German people in Mecklenburg were observed by the party, but are we collaborators because of that?"

internal structure

Bureau

  • President: Heiko Block, Lilienthal
  • Vice-President: Herwig Dust, Oldenburg
  • Treasurer: Jutta Engbers, Friesoythe
  • Assessor: Almut Heibülle, Bremen and Rainer Schobeß, Toppenstedt / Harburg district

Membership numbers

  • 2003: 144 people, 87 corporations
  • 2008: 144 people, 83 corporations
  • 2012: 151 people, 83 corporations

building

The INS is housed in the following listed buildings:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Institute for Low German Language (Ed.): Institute for Low German Language - Foundation - Initial Situation - Tasks . JC Meister, Lilienthal 1973; Page 3.
  2. ↑ http://www.ins-bremen.de/de/das-ins/lösungen.html .
  3. ↑ Annual report 2012: Archive link ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Annual report 2012: Archive link ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ “It doesn't work without the institute” in: Kreiszeitung from July 15, 2016.
  6. ^ A solution for the Platt Institute in Weser-Kurier from December 6, 2016.
  7. ^ Elke Gundel: Country center instead of association. weser-kurier.de, December 16, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2017 .
  8. ^ Christoph Eisfeld / Johannes Saalfeld: The city partnership Bremen-Rostock 1987 to 1989 in the mirror of the Stasi files . In: Lothar Probst / Johannes Saalfeld: The city partnership Bremen-Rostock. Origin, history and balance sheet , Bremen / Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-88722-716-6 .
  9. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive : Chronicle of the cooperation INS / MFZ . Collection of materials / documentation, Berlin 2012.
  10. ↑ Focus, Munich, No. 45, November 2, 1998, page 114.
  11. ↑ BStU , MfS , BV Rostock, Abt. XX, No. 170, pp. 61-76.
  12. ^ Wolfgang Lindow on January 21, 1991 to Helmut de Voss , Fritz Reuter Society.
  13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Annual report 2003: http://www.ins-bremen.de/uploads/media/jabe2003.pdf
  15. ↑ Annual report 2008: Archive link ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Annual report 2012: Archive link ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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