Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pfälzisch in Amerika Filming Locations
Where was Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pfälzisch in Amerika filmed? Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pfälzisch in Amerika was filmed in 2 locations across Germany and United States in the following places:
Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pfälzisch in Amerika Filming Locations
The Palatinate, or the Rhenish Palatinate, is a historical region of Germany. The Palatinate occupies most of the southern quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, covering an area of 2,105 square miles with about 1.4 million inhabitants. Its residents are known as Palatines.
Kutztown is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 18 miles southwest of Allentown and 17 miles northeast of Reading. As of the 2020 census, the borough had a population of 4,162. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is located just outside the borough limits to the southwest.
Hiwwe wie Driwwe - Pfälzisch in Amerika (2019)
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.