A movie called “A Bride Seldom Comes Alone” where the German Sinto Rapper Sido plays one of the main characters.
The movie uses quite a few clichés – large families, migrants, etc. – and for that reason it is already the source of controversy.
– Eine Braut kommt selten allein. In: Fous. 06.12.2017. http://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/leute-eine-braut-kommt-selten-allein_id_7943197.html [link-preview url=”http://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/leute-eine-braut-kommt-selten-allein_id_7943197.html”]
A UNHCR movie on Roma who are stateless in their own country.
– https://www.facebook.com/UNHCRSkopje1/videos/1476906755720730/ [link-preview url=”https://www.facebook.com/UNHCRSkopje1/videos/1476906755720730/”]
The Social Democrats (SPD) in the Bavarian Parliament are asking for a formal treaty between the State of Bavaria and the Sinti and Roma, as a sign of the responsibilities of the state and as a mean to fight racism and discrimination.
– SPD will Staatsvertrag mit Sinti und Roma im Frühjahr 2018. In: Die Welt. 05.12.2017. https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/regiolinegeo/bayern/article171267949/SPD-will-Staatsvertrag-mit-Sinti-und-Roma-im-Fruehjahr-2018.html [link-preview url=”https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/regiolinegeo/bayern/article171267949/SPD-will-Staatsvertrag-mit-Sinti-und-Roma-im-Fruehjahr-2018.html”]
An Exhibition in Berlin explores the relation of football with racism against Roma. There have been numerous examples where the term “Gypsy” or “Zigeuner” have been used as insults against other players, but there have been more serious incidents too.
– “Das ist ein Gesamtproblem des Fußballs”. In: Deutschlandfunk. 03.12.2017. http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antiziganismus-das-ist-ein-gesamtproblem-des-fussballs.1346.de.html?dram:article_id=402229 [link-preview url=”http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antiziganismus-das-ist-ein-gesamtproblem-des-fussballs.1346.de.html?dram:article_id=402229″]
A series of movies this week in Cologne on Roma and Sinti.
– https://www.facebook.com/events/301911143632484/ [link-preview url=”https://www.facebook.com/events/301911143632484/”]
An article about the Roma Day in Berlin (held on Nov. 24th), and its message: Many Roma are well integrated, Roma have to get out of the defensive, and racism needs to be be firmly condemned.
– Roma-Day in Berlin: Aufstehen gegen Rassismus und Nationalismus. In: BNR. 24.11.2017. https://www.bnr.de/artikel/aktuell-aus-der-zivilgesellschaft/roma-day-in-berlin-aufstehen-gegen-rassismus-und-nationali [link-preview url=”https://www.bnr.de/artikel/aktuell-aus-der-zivilgesellschaft/roma-day-in-berlin-aufstehen-gegen-rassismus-und-nationali”]
A young Sinto, Giano Weiss from the city of Paderborn, is engaging himself for the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust in his city and for trying to establish the facts. He was received by the Prime Minister of the State of Northwest Westphalia.
– Ministerpräsident Laschet ermutigt jungen Paderborner Sinto. In: Neue Westfälische. 24.11.2017. http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_paderborn/paderborn/paderborn/21986323_Ministerpraesident-Laschet-ermutigt-jungen-Paderborner-Sinto.html [link-preview url=”http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_paderborn/paderborn/paderborn/21986323_Ministerpraesident-Laschet-ermutigt-jungen-Paderborner-Sinto.html”]
More articles on the purchase of the pig farm on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety, in the Czech Republic.
– Tschechien: Roma-Gedenkstätte ersetzt Schweinemast auf früherem NS-Lagergelände. In: RT. 24.11.2017. https://deutsch.rt.com/europa/61138-tschechien-roma-gedenkstaette-ersetzt-schweinemast-auf-früherem-ns-lagergelaende/
– Schweinefarm wird zur KZ-Gedenkstätte. In: N-TV. 23.11.2017. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Schweinefarm-wird-zur-KZ-Gedenkstaette-article20148960.html
– Czechy: Rząd wykupił chlewnię obejmującą teren obozu dla Romów. In: Farmer.pl. 24.11.2017. http://www.farmer.pl/fakty/unia-europejska/czechy-rzad-wykupil-chlewnie-obejmujaca-teren-obozu-dla-romow,75112.html [link-preview url=”https://deutsch.rt.com/europa/61138-tschechien-roma-gedenkstaette-ersetzt-schweinemast-auf-früherem-ns-lagergelaende/ “]
At last, the pig farm on the former site of the Lety concentration camp has been bought by the Czech Government.
– Czech Republic buys pig farm at former Nazi camp to shutter it. In: The Times of Israel. 23.11.2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/czech-republic-buys-pig-farm-at-former-nazi-camp-to-shutter-it/ [link-preview url=”https://www.timesofisrael.com/czech-republic-buys-pig-farm-at-former-nazi-camp-to-shutter-it/”]
A reportage about a Buddhist school founded in a small village in Hungary with the aim of helping young Roma to get an education and gain a foothold in life.
A must see.
– Der zornige Buddha. In: ZDF. 21.11.2017. https://www.zdf.de/filme/das-kleine-fernsehspiel/der-zornige-buddha-100.html [link-preview url=”https://www.zdf.de/filme/das-kleine-fernsehspiel/der-zornige-buddha-100.html”]
A German Theatre project called “Schuchten – Neue Nachbarn” [canyon – new neighbours] is being nominated for the Amadeu Antonio Price. This price is awarded to projects fighting racism. The play consists of Roma and Sinti telling stories while walking through a neighbourhood of Augsburg where many of them live.
– NOMINIERT FÜR DEN AMADEU ANTONIO PREIS 2017 – “SCHLUCHTEN – NEUE NACHBARN”. In: Bell Tower, 21.11.2017. http://www.belltower.news/artikel/nominiert-für-den-amadeu-antonio-preis-2017-schluchten-neue-nachbarn-12911 [link-preview url=”http://www.belltower.news/artikel/nominiert-für-den-amadeu-antonio-preis-2017-schluchten-neue-nachbarn-12911″]
An article about the children movie “Nelly’s Adventures” which perpetuates clichés and sterotypes about Roma and which was funded in part by the sate.
The TaZ is organising a conference on the 22. November on the topic of Antitsiganism and on how to combat it.
– „Staatlich geförderter Antiziganismus“ In: TaZ. 18.11.2017. http://www.taz.de/!5460745/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/!5460745/”]
The old movie “I even met happy Gypsies” from Aleksandar Petrović was re-released in a newly re-mastered version. The movie had won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury in cannes in 1967 (ex aequo with another movie).
While it is an iconic movie, it also perpetuates all stereotypes …
– http://www.culturopoing.com/cinema/reprises/aleksandar-petrovic-jai-meme-rencontre-des-tziganes-heureux-skupljaci-perja-1967/20171113 [link-preview url=”http://www.culturopoing.com/cinema/reprises/aleksandar-petrovic-jai-meme-rencontre-des-tziganes-heureux-skupljaci-perja-1967/20171113″]
The Jenische Organisation “Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse” wrote to the Swiss Federal Council, deploring the increase of racism against travellers in the country, the closure of camping sites, and the inaction of the authorities. They deplore the fact that the Jenische are thrown into the same pot as other “foreign” and mostly Roma group and that politics at the same time plays one group against the other.
– Jenische fürchten den “Dammbruch”. In: Der Bund. 17.11.2017. https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Jenische-fuerchten-den-Dammbruch/story/26684903#overlay [link-preview url=”https://www.derbund.ch/bern/kanton/Jenische-fuerchten-den-Dammbruch/story/26684903#overlay”]
A really worrying trend in Berlin: Stumbling stones, these little stones encased in the pavement remembering victims of the Holocaust, are being removed an destroyed. A worrying trend.
– Vandals Are Attacking Berlin’s Powerful Citywide Holocaust Memorial. In: City Lab. 16.11.2017. https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/berlin-stolpersteine/545990/ [link-preview url=”https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/11/berlin-stolpersteine/545990/”]
It seems that some schools in Slovakia are considering Roma children as a business rather than as pupils who need to be taught. In brief, the staff selected children, apparently overwhelmingly Roma, diagnosing them with various health disabilities, which resulted in their subsequent inclusion in a group of pupils with special educational needs where the school could receive more than twice the amount of money than for standard pupils.
Slovakia has a long story of putting Roma children in classes for mentally disabled people – before basically as racism, now for profit…
– Kto zarába na rómskych žiakoch. In: Dennik. 15.11.2017. https://dennikn.sk/blog/kto-zaraba-na-romskych-ziakoch/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/blog/kto-zaraba-na-romskych-ziakoch/”]
More on the controversy about the German children movie “Nelly’s Adventure” with split opinions.
We share the opinions of the German Council of Sinti and Roma. The movie promotes the usual negative stereotypes about Roma.
– Überwiegend Zuspruch für “Nellys Abenteuer”. In: Welt N24. 12.11.2017. https://www.welt.de/regionales/baden-wuerttemberg/article170545909/Ueberwiegend-Zuspruch-fuer-Nellys-Abenteuer.html
– Sinti und Roma kritisieren SWR-Jugendfilm. In: badische Zeitung. 10.11.2017. http://www.badische-zeitung.de/computer-medien-1/sinti-und-roma-kritisieren-swr-jugendfilm–144794702.html
– Ist der SWR-Film „Nellys Abenteuer“ rassistisch? In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. 08.11.2017. http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.kritik-von-sinti-und-roma-ist-der-swr-film-nellys-abenteuer-rassistisch.36eb4510-77fb-4ec8-8265-3fd50f17d547.html
– „Nellys Abenteuer“ rassistisch? – SWR strahlt Film vorzeitig aus. In: Südkurier. 10.11.2017. https://www.suedkurier.de/nachrichten/panorama/Nellys-Abenteuer-rassistisch-SWR-strahlt-Film-vorzeitig-aus;art409965,9490767 [link-preview url=”https://www.welt.de/regionales/baden-wuerttemberg/article170545909/Ueberwiegend-Zuspruch-fuer-Nellys-Abenteuer.html “]
The German Central Council of Sinti and Roma sees itself proven right in having stated that the children movie “Nelly’s Adventures” is actually racist and present a stereotyped view of Roma.
– Nach der Diskussion : Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma sieht seine Kritik am Film ‚Nellys Abenteuer‘ bestätigt: Film produziert Angst vor dem Fremden. Zentralrat Sinti und Roma. 12.11.2017. http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/nach-der-diskussion-zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-sieht-seine-kritik-am-film-nellys-abenteuer-bestaetigt-film-produziert-angst-vor-dem-fremden/ [link-preview url=”http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/nach-der-diskussion-zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-sieht-seine-kritik-am-film-nellys-abenteuer-bestaetigt-film-produziert-angst-vor-dem-fremden/”]
The Czech republic has been under pressure at the UN in Geneva reading Roma and the persisting racism and discrimination against them in the Czech Republic.
Good!
– INTÉGRATION DES ROMS ET MONTÉE DU RACISME : L’ONU RECOMMANDE À LA TCHÉQUIE D’EN FAIRE PLUS. In: Radio Praha. 07.11.2017. http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/faits/integration-des-roms-et-montee-du-racisme-lonu-recommande-a-la-tchequie-den-faire-plus
– LE PRÉSIDENT ZEMAN CRITIQUÉ PAR LES REPRÉSENTANTS DE LA MINORITÉ ROM. In: Radio Praha. 12.11.2017. http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/infos/le-president-zeman-critique-par-les-representants-de-la-minorite-rom [link-preview url=”http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/faits/integration-des-roms-et-montee-du-racisme-lonu-recommande-a-la-tchequie-den-faire-plus “]
Three Bulgarian Roma have been condemned to heavy prison sentences for the murder of another Rom in the North of France. According to the police, the fight arose over the control of the “lucrative” begging in the region.
This is bad, first because begging has never really been a criminal activity, much less a lucrative one. So here, the stereotypes of the Roma begging criminal rings is in full swing.
– Règlement de comptes sur fond de contrôle de mendiants: trois Roms condamnés à 17 et 18 ans de prison. In: Libération. 10.11.2017. http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2017/11/10/reglement-de-comptes-sur-fond-de-controle-de-mendiants-trois-roms-condamnes-a-17-et-18-ans-de-prison_1609382 [link-preview url=”http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2017/11/10/reglement-de-comptes-sur-fond-de-controle-de-mendiants-trois-roms-condamnes-a-17-et-18-ans-de-prison_1609382″]
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