Michael Werner

Michael Werner may refer to:

Michael Werner (footballer)

Michael Werner (born 10 June 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Werner, who was from Canberra, started his career at Manuka-Weston after playing junior football with Eastlake. He spent the 1988 season in the SANFL as a full-forward with West Torrens and kicked 38 goals to finish as their leading goal kicker. In 1988 he also represented the ACT at the Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival.

Essendon then secured his services with pick nine in the 1988 VFL Draft and he went on to spend the next four seasons as a key forward in the AFL. He kicked 27 goals in 1990 but missed that year's finals series where Essendon made the Grand Final. In 1991 he made just six senior appearances but notably kicked four goals in Essendon's Elimination Final loss to Melbourne.

At the end of the 1992 season, Werner was traded to Sydney. In his first game against his old club, and third for Sydney, Werner kicked a career best six goals.

Michael Werner (publisher)

Michael Werner (born 1965) is the publisher of the only existing Pennsylvania German newspaper, Hiwwe wie Driwwe. In 1993, he started a private Archive for Pennsylvania German Literature in the Palatinate, Germany. In 1996, the newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe was founded in Ebertsheim, Palatinate (Germany). Since then, it is being published bi-annually. In 2003, Michael Werner, who has a doctorate degree in linguistics, was one of the co-founders of the German-Pennsylvanian Association and the first president of the association (until 2010). Since 1998, he is a member of the jury of the oldest Palatine Dialect Writers Contest in Bockenheim an der Weinstraße, Palatinate (Germany). He lives in Ober-Olm in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and works as publishing director of a publishing company in Mainz. In 2013, "Hiwwe wie Driwwe" started a cooperation with Kutztown University (PA).

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