The founder and publisher is Michael Werner (Ober-Olm, Germany), who also served as president of the German-Pennsylvanian Association between 2003 and 2010.

In 2011, Hiwwe wie Driwwe has created a "Hiwwe wie Driwwe Award for Pennsylvania German Literature" in cooperation with the Palatine Writers Contest in Bockenheim (Germany) and Kutztown University's Pennsylvania German Minor Program.

Starting in 2010, this developed in the Hiwwe wie Driwwe Palatinate Tour, in which the featured guest(s) go on a four-day tour, performing in Ober-Olm (at the Old Town Hall), Oberalben (at the Emigration Museum), Bockenheim (at the Palatinate Dialect Poetry Competition), and ending with German-Pennsylvanian Day (organized by the German-Pennsylvanian Working Group Deutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis), which changes location each year.

To date, the featured guests have been: David L Valuska & William Donner, Kutztown University (2004): "This journal and an associated internet site are leading sources for information about the Pennsylvania German language.

"[3] Sheily Rohrer, Penn State University (2017): "Started as a newspaper by Michael Werner in Ebertsheim, Germany, Hiwwe wie Driwwe on the internet and in print has mediated a transnational conversation of dialect writers with one another.