Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Trailer USA
In April 2019 screenings in Germany, in June/July 2019 screenings in the USA. Dates and more soon on hiwwewiedriwwe.com
400,000 Americans speak a Palatine dialect? In the documentary film Hiwwe wie Driwwe by Benjamin Wagener and Christian Schega, Douglas Madenford, born and raised in Pennsylvania, goes on a search for traces in his homeland and the Palatinate. Doug meets many people and learns what is left of the Palatine language and culture in America and how it has developed hiwwe wie driwwe, here in Germany and over in America.
About 300 years ago many people from the Palatinate fled from political persecution as well as for economic reasons to the USA and settled mainly in and around Pennsylvania. They also brought their language and culture to the New World. Both have survived to this day in large parts. In America, people still speak their variant of the Palatine dialect: the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch.
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GERMANS IN AMERICA 3 : LITTLE GERMANIES
June 15, 1904, screams fill the air over the East River. The screaming of people who are drowning. The “General Slocum,” an excursion boat, is on its way to Long Island. On board are mostly families from New York’s Little Germany. Over one thousand German-Americans die in the river on this early summer’s day. From drowning, burning, or caught up in the boat’s paddle-wheels. The catastrophe marks the end of this Little Germany, a neighborhood in New York’s Lower East Side.
“Little Germanies” are blooming all over the United States in the second half of the 19th century. Businesses and cultural institutions, schools and churches, newspapers and clubs—everything is there for the powerful and rich German-speaking communities. In New York’s Little Germany, there are more than 70,000 Germans in the second half of the 19th century. Castle Garden and thenEllis Island are the central points of immigration. The newcomers are overwhelmingly working-class people without substantial wealth. They live and eat cheaply, work hard, and economize in everything. Many immigrants bring a small bag of dirt with them. They plan to be buried with this little handful of the old country, since generally there’s no way to go back home again.
The program follows the stories of two immigrant families.
First, the Steinwegs, who found Steinway & Sons three years after their arrival and settle in und Manhattan. All the children work in the family business. They develop the Steinway grand piano, obtain many patents, and their instruments earn a world-wide reputation. In 1865, the business moves to Queens—where it’s still located today.
At the other end of the spectrum is the Gumpertz family, which struggles to find a way out of the slums of New York’s Little Germany. Overcrowded apartments without sanitary facilities are breeding places for tuberculosis, typhus, and cholera. One-third of the children die before they learn to walk. On October 17, 1874, Nathalie Gumpertz waits in vain for her husband to come home. Julius never returns. In those hard times, many men committed suicide or simply disappear, because they can’t stand the misery that their families are living in.
For one of these families, the American dream becomes reality; for the other it’s a test of life and death.
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Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death in 1715. Starting on 14 May 1643 when Louis was 4 years old, his reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history. In the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's France was a leader in the growing centralisation of power.Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661, after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin of monarchical rule, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralised state governed from the capital. He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France and, by compelling many members of the nobility to inhabit his lavish Palace of Versailles, succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, many members of which had participated in the Fronde rebellion during Louis' minority. By these means he became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution.
Louis encouraged and benefited from the work of prominent political, military, and cultural figures such as Mazarin, Colbert, Louvois, the Grand Condé, Turenne, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, André Charles Boulle, Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Marais, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles, Claude Perrault, and Le Nôtre. Under his rule, the Edict of Nantes, which granted rights to Huguenots, was abolished. The revocation effectively forced Huguenots to emigrate or convert in a wave of dragonnades, which managed to virtually destroy the French Protestant minority.
During Louis' reign, France was the leading European power, and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. There were also two lesser conflicts: the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Warfare defined the foreign policy of Louis XIV, and his personality shaped his approach. Impelled by a mix of commerce, revenge, and pique, Louis sensed that warfare was the ideal way to enhance his glory. In peacetime he concentrated on preparing for the next war. He taught his diplomats that their job was to create tactical and strategic advantages for the French military.