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Work Log

Beginning of Semester

(90 min) Translated section 3 of the Hiddensee article. I found it difficult to switch my brain from German sentence structure to English and had to consciously check what I was writing in English.

May 8th - 15th

• (90 min) Helped to finish the translation of section 7(Can be seen on Chiara's page, was edited there.) What I found semi-difficult were the numerous very specific words whose translations even into English I didn't know or understand.
• (90 min) Added links to another portion of section 7 and translated the image caption

May 16th - 22nd

• (60 min) Translated section 15 (Culture section and beginning of misc section)
  • One difficulty was, again, specific words. Additionally, there were some song lyrics that I tried to translated, but they were written in dialect, so I couldn't really figure it out.

May 23rd - 30th

• Began on the "Leben" portion of the Wiki article for Dieter Leisegang (90 min)
• Finished section 15 (30 min)

Section 3

Settlements

Grieben

Grieben ist der nördlichste Ort auf der Insel. Sein Name (abgeleitet vom slawischen Wort für Pilz) deutet darauf hin, dass der Ort eine der beiden Siedlungen auf der Insel war, die bereits zu slawischer Zeit vor der Ankunft der deutschen Mönche im 13. Jahrhundert existierten. Zu Zeiten der Existenz des Klosters wurden für Grieben acht Katen genannt. Die Zahl der Häuser hat sich bis zur Neuzeit kaum verändert.

Grieben is on the northernmost point of the island. Its name (derived from the Slavic word for Fungus) indicates that Grieben was one of two settlements on the island that already existed during the Slavic period before the arrival of German monks in the 13th century. At the time of the existence of the monastery, eight cottages belonged to the village of Grieben. The number of houses barely changed up until the modern era.

Kloster

Der Ort entstand um das Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts gegründete Kloster Hiddensee. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bestand er nur aus Kirche, Gutshaus, Pfarr- und Schulhaus und zwei Arbeiterhäusern und wuchs erst danach zu seiner heutigen Größe. Hier siedelten sich eine Reihe von Künstlern an, bekannt ist Kloster als Wohnort von Gerhart Hauptmann geworden, der auf dem dortigen Inselfriedhof begraben wurde.

This settlement was founded around the Hiddensee Monastery at the end of the 13th century. Even at the end of the 19th century Kloster comprised of only a church, a farmhouse estate, a building functioning both as parish house and school house, and two workhouses. The village only grew to its current size after this period. A series of artists came to settle here, the best-known being Gerhart Hauptmann, who now rests in the island cemetery.

Vitte

Vitte wurde erst 1513 urkundlich erwähnt. Der Name leitet sich von einem Gattungsnamen ab, dem niederdeutschen Wort für eine Niederlassung von Heringsfischern. Vitte wurde bald der größte Ort der Insel und ist es bis heute.

Vitte was first documented as a village in the year 1513. The name derives from a generic name, namely the Low German word for a subsidiary of herring fishermen. Vitte soon became the largest settlement on the island and remains so to this day.

Glambeck

Neben Grieben war Glambeck eine der beiden zu slawischer Zeit existierenden Siedlungen der Insel, der Name leitet sich von tiefer Ort ab. Bereits vor 1700 wurde der Ort zur Wüstung. Heute erinnert ein Flurname für ein Landstück etwa einen Kilometer nördlich von Neuendorf an den Ort.

Alongside Grieben, Glambeck was the other of the two settlements to have existed on the island during the Slavic period. The name "Glambeck" is derived from deep place. Already before 1700 the settlement was left abandoned. Today a field name for a piece of land about one kilometer north of Neuendorf serves as a reminder for Glambeck.

Neuendorf

Main article: Neuendorf (Insel Hiddensee)

Der Ort entstand um das Jahr 1700, vermutlich als Ersatz für das aufgebene Dorf Glambeck. Hier hat sich der Charakter des alten Fischerdorfes am stärksten auf der Insel erhalten. Seine Bebauungsstruktur mit Häusern auf gemeinschaftlich genutztem Wiesengelände ohne angelegte Wege gilt als einmalig, der Ort steht als Ganzes unter Denkmalschutz.

The village emerged around the year 1700, presumably as a replacement for the abandoned village of Glambeck. The character of the old fishing village has been best preserved here; its building structure with houses nestled on communally-used grasslands without paths is unique, and the entire village is considered a historical monument.

Plogshagen

Plogshagen ist eine Gründung aus Zeiten der Kolonisation durch deutsche Siedler nach Klostergründung. Der Name leitet sich vermutlich vom Personennamen Plog ab. Heute ist Plogshagen weitgehend mit Neuendorf zusammengewachsen.

Plogshagen is a settlement stemming from the times of colonization by German settlers after the founding of its monastery. The name is likely derived from the personal name Plog. Today Plogshagen has grown extensively together with Neuendorf.

Part of Section 7

The first settlements on the island emerged in the middle and late Stone Age. After the German people left the southern Baltic Sea region in the 6th century BCE, the Ranans (Slavs) took possession of the island. Later, in the year 1168, they were defeated by King Waldemar I of Denmark through the conquest of the Jaromarsburg fortress on the Cape of Arkona on the island of Rügen. The people were then converted to Christianity and the area was turned into a Danish vassal state. Thusly, Hiddensee fell under Danish sovereignty. On April 13th, 1296 the prince of Rügen, Wizlaw II, gifted the island of Hiddensee, which he described as "the island surrounded by salt water", to the Monastery of Neuenkamp. There emerged a Cistercian monastery named Nikolaikamp, which was named after the Holy Nicholas, patron saint of the seafarers. In actuality the monastery was called Kloster Hiddensee during the entire time of its existence. In Autumn of 2008 archaeologists discovered ten graves during a dig at the site of the former Cistercian monastery under the leadership of Medieval archaeologist Felix Biermann.

Culture

Starting at the beginning of the 20th century, Hiddensee benefitted from its attractiveness as an artist's colony. All types of artists spent their summer months on the island and recorded their impressions of the experience in their work. In the Blaue Scheune (Blue Barn) in Vitte, the summer house of Henni Lehmann, the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund (Hiddensee Female Artist's Collective) met from the year 1922 until 1933. Countless artists stayed on Hiddensee too in the period of the GDR and reflected on their day-today and the one-of-a-kind landscape in their paintings and writings. Additionally, there was a cinema tent and lake stage (puppet theater) in Vitte as well as the galleries Am Seglerhafen in Vitte and Am Torbogen in Kloster.

Miscellaneous

The island of Hiddensee is also called "Sötes Länneken" (sweet little land) by locals.

Because many members of the Berlin Bohème spent their summer retreats on Hiddensee during the time of the Weimar Republic, people from the capital city also called the island the Romanisches Café of the Baltic Islands.

In 1974, Nina Hagen released the hit Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen, in which she sings "Hoch stand der Sanddorn am Strand von Hiddensee …" or "High stands the sallow thorn on the beaches of Hiddensee …". The folk duo De Plattfööt also mentions the island in one of their songs, singing "Hiddensee, Land zwischen Luv un Lee".

Panorama view of the light house and both Old and New Bessin

A missile boat from the German Navy carried the name Hiddensee from 1990 until its decommissioning in 1996.

The rescue boat Nausikaa of the DGzRS is stationed in Vitte.