Thirty years ago, Austria recognised Sinti and Roma as a national minority.
The Austrian President Van der Bellen commemorated the Roma Holocaust on August 2nd.
Austria is discussing the establishment August 2nd as a national remembrance day for the Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis.
The Baranka Park commemoration took place for the 14th time last Saturday. The association “Voice of Diversity” organises these to commemorate the Roma and Sinti victims of National Socialism and to celebrate and convey the life and culture of the Roma and Sinti as well as Jewish and Viennese culture.
The Romani singer Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos passed away yesterday at the age of 77. May she rest in peace.
Born in Hungary in 1945, she grew up in a traditional and musical Lovara family who traded horses. Her musical talent was evident from early on. When she was 11, her family moved to Austria due to the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. There she met her husband Mišo Nikolić and had her first public appearance on the initiative of the music ethnologist Ursula Hemetek. She then founded the band “Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos and The Gypsy Family” with her husband and sons and gained international fame. Passing on the song tradition to younger generations was particularly important to her. It is thanks to her that the songs of the Lovara in Austria were recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.
Note the date: April 21-24, 2022, in Vienna, Austria.
Ein Festival in Vienna – not to be missed.
On April 8, 2022, the Roma community officially submitted a position paper on the erection of a memorial to the Roma and Sinti murdered during the Nazi era in the Vienna Parliament. The politicians promised support.
A portrait of the actress Sandra Selimović.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=3262155854008092
The Roma victims of the February 5th, 1995 attack were commemorated in Oberwart on Sunday afternoon. Four Roma from Oberwart were killed by a pipe bomb disguised as a standing sign. The attack was racially motivated.
The theater association “Romano Svato” was founded ten years ago by Simonida and Sandra Selimović. Since then, the sisters have become icons of the theatre world.
A new project “Thara” in Austria aims at helping Roma acquiring new skills and learnings so as to have more chances of finding jobs.
The traditional pilgrimage of Rom to Mariazell will take place on August 12th.
– Mariazell: Traditionelle Roma-Wallfahrt. In: Vatican News. 09.08.2018. https://www.vaticannews.va/de/kirche/news/2018-08/oesterreich-mariazell-wallfahrt-sinti-roma.html [link-preview url=”https://www.vaticannews.va/de/kirche/news/2018-08/oesterreich-mariazell-wallfahrt-sinti-roma.html”]
There is a proposal to officialise August 2nd in Austria as the day of the commemoration of Roma victims of the Holocaust.
– Mandl schlägt 2. August als offiziellen österreichischen Gedenktag für Roma und Sinti vor. In: OTS. 01.08.2018. https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20180801_OTS0032/mandl-schlaegt-2-august-als-offiziellen-oesterreichischen-gedenktag-fuer-roma-und-sinti-vor [link-preview url=”https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20180801_OTS0032/mandl-schlaegt-2-august-als-offiziellen-oesterreichischen-gedenktag-fuer-roma-und-sinti-vor”]
An interview of Simonida Selimović about her, and about the Roma festival in Vienna.
– „Wir sind Roma – na und?“. In: Die Presse. 14.05.2018. https://diepresse.com/home/leben/mensch/5446507/Wir-sind-Roma-na-und [link-preview url=”https://diepresse.com/home/leben/mensch/5446507/Wir-sind-Roma-na-und”]
Interview with the activists and actresses of Romano Svato, the company behind the show Roma Armee Fraction.
– Austria: Romani Artists Telling Stories of Resistance, Not Victimhood. In: Romea. 02.06.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/austria-romani-artists-telling-stories-of-resistance-not-victimhood [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/world/austria-romani-artists-telling-stories-of-resistance-not-victimhood”]
An Essay on the rampant racism against Roma which still exists in Austria nowadays. This article dismantles several of them, such as the one of the begging mafia.
A must read.
– Roma werden in Österreich immer noch diskriminiert – und es ist jedem scheißegal. In: Vice. 21.03.2018. https://www.vice.com/de_at/article/j5byxg/roma-werden-in-osterreich-immer-noch-diskriminiert-und-es-ist-jedem-scheissegal [link-preview url=”https://www.vice.com/de_at/article/j5byxg/roma-werden-in-osterreich-immer-noch-diskriminiert-und-es-ist-jedem-scheissegal”]
Look at “Romano Svato” – a Roma theatre, a film and cultural association in Vienna, Austria.
– https://www.facebook.com/romanosvato/
– http://www.romanosvato.at [link-preview url=”https://www.facebook.com/romanosvato/ “]
Another article in the French Press on the retrospective of Ceija Stojka’s work.
– Ceija Stojka, une artiste rom dans le siècle. In: Exponaute. 27.02.2018. http://www.exponaute.com/magazine/2018/02/27/ceija-stojka-une-artiste-rom-dans-le-siecle/ [link-preview url=”http://www.exponaute.com/magazine/2018/02/27/ceija-stojka-une-artiste-rom-dans-le-siecle/”]
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