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From: "Dr. Joachim Reppmann" <reppmann at debitel.net>
Subject: LL-L: "Events" LOWLANDS-L, 29.SEP.2001 (02) [E]
Welcome to the 4th Plattdüütsch Conference
Hosted by:moin-moin
In cooperation with:
Grand Island Convention Bureau
Liederkranz Society, Grand Island, NE
Platt Duetsche Corporation, Grand Island, NE
Society for German American Studies (SGAS)
American / Schleswig-Holstein Heritage Society (ASHHS)
We are happy that you are joining us for this 4th US-Plattdüütsch
Conference, held this year in Grand Island, Nebraska. The people of our
community say moin-moin. Hopefully your brief stay here will be an
enjoyable, educational experience with many pleasant memories to take back
home. Here you will find the opportunity to learn more about the language
and life of your Platt-speaking forefathers. You will also meet interesting
people from Northern Germany as well as from many US States.
This Conference had its beginnings with the American / Schleswig-Holstein
Heritage Society (ASHHS) with its headquarter in Eastern Iowa. Under the
leadership of Glenn Sievers and many of his friends, ASHHS had organized the
first two Platt Conferences in 1995 and 1997. In 1999 it was the Pommerscher
Verein - Central Wisconsin who put a fine event on stage. Besides these
3-days conferences in the USA, the Mettenhofer Kring and German
ASHHS-members had organized two one-day gatherings in Germany in 1998 and
2000.
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Conference Information
Registration Desk hours:
Friday, October 19: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Saturday, October 20: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Luncheons are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, the Dinner and Keynote
Address will be held on Friday evening, the Banquet of the Conference on
Saturday evening. Attendance at the meal functions is by preregistration
only, and tickets should be ordered and paid for by check. After October 5,
the availability of tickets for meal functions cannot be guaranteed. Meal
tickets will be available in the registration packet which you receive at
the Registration Desk. Kindly do not forget the meal ticket. Admission to
the meals will not be permitted without a ticket.
Please, remember to wear your Registration Badge during the Conference. Only
persons wearing an official moin-moin Registration Badge will be permitted
in the Conference Area. Persons not wearing a badge will be denied entry.
Participants from Germany: It is often the case in your country that persons
are invited to a conference in order to present a paper. In such
circumstances, that individual is not expected to pay registration fees.
That is not the case for American style conferences. Here, no one is
invited, and all are treated equally as having proposed papers/sessions.
Thus, all are required to pay registration fees.
Contact Information
Ken Gnadt, City Hall, 100 East First Street, Box 1968, Grand Island, NE
68802-1968;
( (308) 385-5444 (ext. 100); 7 (308) 3855486 mayor at gionline.net
Yogi Reppmann, 3 Lincoln Lane, Northfield, MN 55057; ( (507) 645-9161;7
(507) 663-7929; yogi at moin-moin.com www.moin-moin.com
Program:
Friday October 19th, 2001
10:00 AM Registration
1:00 PM Welcome by Mayor Ken Gnadt and Gov. Mike Johanns and Udo Fröhlich,
Mayor of Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein
1:30 PM Bill Keel, Lawrence, KS:Platt and Schnitzelbank in USA
2:00 PM Dr. Wolfgang Grams, Oldenburg, Germany:
2:30 PM Ute Biemller, Lohe-Rickelshof, and Wolfgang Rempe, Flensburg
GermanyPractical Exercises
3:00 PM Edith Robins, Grand Island:The "Weltblatt" - A Low German Newspaper
3:30 PM Coffee - break / Kaffee Tiet
4:30 PM Bill Keelss PhD- Platt-researchers:Plautdietsch Mennonites from
Mexico to Kansas
5:00 PM Don Zamzow, Wausau, WI, Jo Peters, Manhagen, GermanyThe Impact of
the US-Plattconference 1999 on Winconsins Low German
6:00 PM Transfer to the Liederkranz Society
6:30 PM Social Hour with Cash Bar in the Bierkeller of the Liederkranz
7:30 PM Dinner in the Liederkranz Ballroom Keynote Address by Eric Braeden,
Hollywood: "My Low German Youth in Bredenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany"
Toast by Hans-Werner Hamann, Mayor of Bredenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Site of
the 2002 Low German ConferenceThe Liederkranz Choir: Potpourri
Saturday, October 20th, 2001
8:30 Dr. Richard Trost, Des Moines, IA:Translating Platt into English a
Bestseller in Germany since 1917
9:00 Dr. Wolfgang Grams, Routes to the Roots, Oldenburg, Germany:Internet
Genealogy and Emigration-Data: The State of Lower Saxony
9:30 Break - Kaffee-Tiet
10:00 Dr. Bill Roba, Davenport, IA: Low German the Business Language of
the Middle-Age Hanseatic League: Europes first Common Market G. Sievers,
J. Schinkel, D. Zamzow et alii:Demonstration of Todays US Platt
10:30 Neil Heimsoth, Gene Beckmann, Cole Camp Duo:Classical American
Songs Rendered in Platt
11:00 Hella Albers, Zeven, GermanyEarly Platt Settlers from Lower Saxony
the Founders of Cole Camp, MO
11:30
12:00 Luncheon Speaker:NN
1:30 Bill Keel and his Ph.D.-Students, Lawrence, KS Plautduitsch
Mennonites from Mexico to Kansas: N. NGenealogical Workshops with
German and American Specialists: Pitfalls of Research / Church-Records and
Old German Script
2:30 Yogi Reppmann, Northfield, MN and Dee Eicke, Bad Oldesloe,
Germany:Slide Show:
3:00 Break - Kaffee-Tiet: Bob Clausen, Grand Island, Wolfgang Rempe,
Flensburg and others: Snack Stunn - Story Hour
3:30-5:00 Mayor Ken Gnadt:Opening of Stolley-House and German Hall
County / Grand Island 1st Heritage Days Ute Biemüller, Germany:Teaching and
Singing Platt (Beginners) NN:
6:00-7:00 Transfer to the Plattdeutsche Corporation and Social Hour
7:30 Banquet and Program: Kinder-Choir, Cole Camp, MO, Ute Biemüller,
Accordeon, Cole Camp Duo, Concordia Platt-Theatre
Sunday, October 21st, 2001
9:00 am Alfred Rodewaldt, Pastor, Concordia, MO:Platt Gottesdeenst -
Multi-Lingual Service
10:30 am Round Table, Moderator Yogi Reppmann, Northfield MN:Future
Projects for Preseving Platt in the United States
12:00 PM Lunch in the Platt Duetsche Speaker: Dee Eicke: Famous Low
German Food (annotated Recipes)
Moin-moin*
Grand Island is hosting the US's fourth Plattdüütsch Conference, entitled
"Plattdüütsch as Moderspraak in Amerika The main focus will be on Low
German spoken in the Midwest and the renaissance of interest in the language
and culture of those who speak it. The varieties of Low German that will be
represented at the conference include East Fresian, Schleswig-Holstein,
Hamburg, Mecklenburg, Lower Saxony, and East Pornmeranian.
A surprisingly large number of children who grew up in the country learned
to speak these dialects at home before entering Kindergarten where they were
taught English, but not German. As a result, many of them now enjoy speaking
Low German as their mother tongue, but only learned to read and write in
English.
The conference is of special interest to a group of North Germans, for they
will visit US descendents of Low German speakers. Their trip, besides the
conference, will include the following: Low German Theater in Cole Camp,
Missouri; the Pommerschen Verein, Wausau, Wisconsin; East Friesians in
Northern Iowa; and Mennonites in Kansas.
In 1995, the American/Schleswig-Holstein Heritage Society (ASHHS), under the
leadership of Glenn Sievers, organized the very first Low German conference
in America. Since 1989, ASHHS is offering Platt classes for beginners and
for advanced speakers, a novelty in the United States. Since then, some
scholarly articles and dissertations under the advisorship of Prof. Bill
Keel, Kansas University had been published. His PhD-Platt-Researchers study
the Plautdietsch of Mennonites who migrate from Mexico to Kansas during the
last eight years.
During the Late Middle Ages, the Baltic seaport of Lbeck, which is in the
northern most state of Germany -Schleswig-Holstein -- was vitally important.
Lbeck had been the administrative and cultural center of the Hanseatic
League. The league was reaching a network of more than 160 cities, from
England to Russia. This predecessor of today's European Union was committed
to free trade; the primary language was Low German.
* All-purpose Low German phrase for "howdy!" and "cheers."
The Conference-Hotel: The Holiday Inn Midtown
Your local contact:
Daisy Sperling, Holiday Inn, 2503 S.Locust, Grand Island, NE, 68801,
Tel: 1-800-548-5542 or (308) 384-1330; fax: (308) 382-4615 midtown at kdsi.net
Please note that check-out time is noon.
The Speakers
Hella Albers Sanddornweg 827404 Zeven, Germany
GeneBeckmann 1111 Benckeser Rd.Cole Camp, MO, 65325
Ute Biemüller Diekkoppel 625746 Lohe-Rickelshof, Germany
Eric Braeden
BobClausen 5719 S. US Hwy 281Grand Island, NE, 68801
Dee Eicke Hindenburgstr 5723843 Bad Oldesloe, Germany
Udo Fröhlich Rathaus23795 Bad Segeberg
Ken Gnadt City HallP.O. Box 1068Grand Island, NE, 68802
Wolfgang Grams Babenend 12726127 Oldenburg, Germany
Hans-Werner Hamann Raiffeisenstrasse 1124796 Bredenbek, Germany
Neil Heimsoth 1111 Benckeser Rd.Cole Camp, MO, 65325
Mike Johanns
Bill Keel 1906 Barker Ave.Lawrence, KS, 66046
Wolfgang Rempe Rabenslücke 224944 Flensburg, Germany
Yogi Reppmann 3 Lincoln Lane Northfield, MN, 55057
Bill Roba 1137 Kirkwood Blvd. Davenport, IA, 52803
Edith Robins 1703 W. Charles St. Grand Island, NE, 68803
Alfred Rodewaldt
Jack Schinkel 6640 New Liberty Rd. Walcott, IA, 52773
Glenn Sievers 26618 20th Ave.Stockton, IA, 52769
Don Heinrich Tolzmann PO Box 210113Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0113
Richard Trost 1464 NW 91 StDes Moines, IA, 50325
Don Zamzow P.O. Box 358Wausau, WI, 54402
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