Reuben Epp

Reuben Epp ( * 1920 in Canada; † 20 June 2009) is a last in Kelowna (British Columbia) resident plaut Dietscher author. His parents were immigrants from Russia Russia Mennonites. Epp was a mechanic by training vocational school teacher and later director of a technical school in Dawson Creek ( also British Columbia). The world's scattered Mennonites living in Russia Reuben Epp is next to Arnold Dyck and Jack Thiessen of the most well-known poet and storyteller in plaut Dietscher language. Its special services include also his publications on the history of language and orthography Plautdietsch. Reuben Epp is mentioned in plaut Dietscher language " Ruben Ap ".

Publications

• Biem Aunsiedle: When the settlers came; Plautdietsch Jechichte een Resse ut'e past ( Winnipeg, Canada 1972)
• Plaut Dietsche Schreftsteckja: Jedichta, Jeschichte, Leeda, Spelkjes ( Steinbach, Manitoba, 1972)
• Onse song Vetahle [ CDs]: Stories tell our people; Plautdietsch Jeschichte hen Riemsels (Winnipeg, Canada 1973)
• The Story of Low German and Plautdietsch: Tracing a Language Across the Globe ( Hillsboro, USA, 1993) ISBN 0-9638494-0-9
• The Spelling of Low German & Plautdietsch: Towards An Official Plautdietsch Orthography ( Hillsboro, USA, 1996) ISBN 0-9638494-1-7
• Dit un jant opp Plautdietsch: This and that in Mennonite Low German ( Hillsboro, USA 1997 ) ISBN 0-9638494-2-5
• Dit un Jant opp Plautdietsch [CD, 17 texts by Reuben Epp, live recording, reading on 7 October 2000 in Lage / Lippe, Germany ], ed. of Plautdietsch friends e.V. ( Detmold 2006)