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culture(mecklenburg_vorpommern): author MV sub-national culture package (ADR-001) #481

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Context

ADR-001 (#461), SH (#467) as template. Research folded into authoring. This issue applies the pattern to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Bundesland: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  • ISO 3166-2: DE-MV
  • Capital: Schwerin
  • Population: ~1.6M (sparsely populated -- the least densely populated Bundesland)
  • Distinctive elements: Two formerly separate territories: Mecklenburg (the dynastic land of the Mecklenburg dukes, Catholic-Protestant border) and Vorpommern (the formerly Swedish then Prussian land, with the smaller Bundesland integration since 1990). The Plattdeutsch / Mecklenburger Platt tradition is unusually strong here. Coast on the Baltic with the Schimmelreiter coast types, Rügen (Germany's largest island), Usedom. Strong post-1990 deindustrialisation, the most challenged of the new Bundesländer demographically. Schloss Schwerin as a real architectural icon. The Müritz / Mecklenburger Seenplatte (Germany's largest lake district). Strong AfD-presence in Vorpommern. Angela Merkel (Templin / Uckermark border, but politically MV through Stralsund-Bundestagsmandat 1990-2021).

Languages / dialects

  • Mecklenburger Platt -- strongly preserved compared to other Plattdeutsch-Regionen, with Mecklenburger Plattdeutscher Verein and active media presence
  • Hochdeutsch (standard)

Suggested file set

  • culture_german_mv_position.md
  • culture_german_mv_position_language_mecklenburger_platt.md
  • culture_german_mv_piece_history.md -- yearbook: medieval Mecklenburg-Schwerin / Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Vorpommern as Swedish 1648-1815, Preußisch 1815-1945, 1945 SBZ / DDR-Bezirke Rostock/Schwerin/Neubrandenburg, Wiedervereinigung 1990 → Bundesland MV, post-1990 demographic decline, contemporary
  • culture_german_mv_piece_<X>.md -- candidates: Schloss Schwerin (Märchenschloss am See), Rügen mit Kreidefelsen / Caspar David Friedrich, Hanse-Erbe (Rostock + Stralsund + Wismar UNESCO), Plattdeutsche Literatur (Fritz Reuter)
  • culture_german_mv_place_<X>.md -- candidates: Schwerin (Capital + Schloss), Rostock (Hansestadt + Hafen + Uni), Rügen / Sellin (Seebrücke)
  • culture_german_mv_process_<X>.md -- candidates: das Plattdeutsch-Schnacken am Hafen, die Mecklenburger Sturheit (Sprichwort: "Lewer dod as Slav"), die Sommer-Demographie (Touristen-Überschuss)
  • german_mv_persona_<gender>_<name>.md -- 2 minimum

Branch and lane

  • Branch: culture/mecklenburg_vorpommern
  • Lane: culture (sub-national), base culture/release

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Acceptance criteria

Estimated size

Medium -- ~1500-2200 lines.

Notes for the agent

  • MV is structurally the post-DDR Bundesland with the most stark demographic decline -- young people leaving, AfD strong in non-coastal areas, summer tourism creating boom-and-bust seasonality. Position must name this honestly.
  • Plattdeutsch is more living here than in most other Plattdeutsch-Regionen -- Mecklenburger Platt has its own Theater-Tradition (Fritz Reuter Theater Schwerin).
  • Hansestädte Rostock + Stralsund + Wismar are UNESCO; the Hanseatic Erbe is shared with Lübeck/Hamburg/Bremen but with Vorpommern-eastern flavour.
  • The 1945-1990 SBZ/DDR-Bezirks-Strukturierung dismantled both Mecklenburg and Vorpommern as Länder; the 1990 re-creation is recent and the federal-state identity is younger than the cultural identity.
  • Caspar David Friedrich's Kreidefelsen auf Rügen as cultural-touristic icon connects Romantic art to contemporary identity.

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