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In his play “Tschandala”, the Swedish Roma actor Lindy Larsson talks about decades of discrimination against Roma in Sweden – and about his own depressing and touching family history.

It’s hard to bear what the man, standing at the edge of the stage in a pale cone of light, is saying. His father was taken from the family as a child and placed in a government home. There he was beaten, raped, tied up for days, imprisoned. Again and again. He almost succeeded in attempting suicide when he was eleven. Later, as a teenager, he was almost sterilized. And he almost spent his whole life in prison and never met his future wife.

• Schauspieler, Rom, schwul: „Es gibt uns. Wir erzählen von uns“. In: Focus. 27.03.2023. https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/schauspieler-rom-schwul-es-gibt-uns-wir-erzaehlen-von-uns_id_197543256.html