Marta Tokárová - Talking
created: 10. 01. 2022 11:23 modified: 10. 01. 2022 11:23
Marta Tokárová was born in the village of Naciná Ves. Her father came from Brekov. She was 68-year-old in the time of the interview. She talks about the local Romani community, their co-existence with the majority, about the Romani language as well as about the significant cultural and social changes.
The regional history of the Roma living in the village of Brekov is the subject of audio recordings that DICRK obtained free of charge from researcher Elena Cinová. Her research project called Brekov Roma in the Flow of Time was supported in 2020 by the Fund for the Support of the Culture of National Minorities. Guided interviews are in Slovak and bring closer the life and culture of the Roma and their perception of social change in the region.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Slovak Marta Tokárová general audience internal
Mária Gunárová - Talking
created: 10. 01. 2022 11:09 modified: 10. 01. 2022 11:09
Mária Gunárová from the village of Brekov, she was 82 at the time of the interview. She was born in the village of Roztoky (Svidník district). She went to the village Brekov. In the interview, he talks about the local Roma community, and coexistence with the majority, about the Roma language and significant cultural and social changes.
The regional history of the Roma living in the village of Brekov is the subject of audio recordings that DICRK obtained free of charge from researcher Elena Cinová. Her research project called Brekov Roma in the Flow of Time was supported in 2020 by the Fund for the Support of the Culture of National Minorities. Guided interviews are in Slovak and bring closer the life and culture of the Roma and their perception of social change in the region.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Slovak Mária Gunárová general audience internal
Koloman Gunár - Talking
created: 10. 01. 2022 10:24 modified: 10. 01. 2022 10:26
Ing. Koloman Gunár comes from the village of Brekov, he was 71 at the time of the interview. From his father's side he comes from a family of musicians, after his mother he is from a family of blacksmiths. From 1967 to 1972 he was a student at the University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering in Bratislava, Department of Civil Engineering. He worked at the District Agricultural Administration in the investment department. In 1990, he co-founded a political party called the Roma Integration Party.
The regional history of the Roma living in the village of Brekov is the subject of audio recordings that DICRK obtained free of charge from researcher Elena Cinová. Her research project called Brekov Roma in the Flow of Time was supported in 2020 by the Fund for the Support of the Culture of National Minorities. Guided interviews are in Slovak and bring closer the life and culture of the Roma and their perception of social change in the region.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Slovak Koloman Gunár general audience internal
Helena Cervenakova - Speaking her Memories
created: 22. 02. 2019 14:40 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The interview with H. Červeňáková was recorded in September 2013 in the village Roštár, in Rožňava district. H. Červeňáková, neé Laliková, was born in 1963 in the family of migrants from Slovakia in the town Moravska Trebova. Later the family returned to Slovakia, back to the village they came from. H. Cervenakova was a member of the group of the leading personalities of the Romani culture, civic and association activities in the region of Gemer. Her literary creation is specific, she writes directly in Romani language, especially in very unique Romani dialect occuring exclusively in Roznava and its close vicinity. The interview's topic is her live, memories about the events which took place in the Romani community in Gemer as well as other places. The speaking is in Slovak language.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Helena Červeňáková general audience internal
Kvetoslava Berkyova - Speaking the Memories
created: 28. 01. 2019 09:51 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The interview was recorded in 2014, March 31st. Kvetoslava Berkyova works in the local Romani community in Rudnany for more than 30 years already. Rudnany is the place where she was born and still lives and works there. As a field worker and activist she is highly devoted to the work with children and youth in the local community center. She works with them on various theater, music or dancing performances. She used to write poetry as well.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Kvetoslava Berkyová general audience internal
Adrian Balog - The Music Teacher Speaking
created: 04. 01. 2019 15:14 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
A. Balog, when interviewed, was thirty-years old qualified teacher of music. Originally from Kosice, living in Filakovo currently, the place which even before the crisis in 2008 started had become a town with high concentration of the Romani people from all over Slovakia. A. Balog is an experienced teacher teaching at the local Elementary Musical School. Beside this, he studies the opera singing at the Private Musical and Drama Conservatory in Hnusta. He speaks about his activities in the gospel band where he invites also the children from the community. Adrian Balog speaks about his family's traditions - his grandfather Zoltan Balog and his cimbalom band played the music typical for the Gemer-Malohont region. Adrian Balog in his speaking brings more information about the regional culture of the mentioned regions.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective factual monologue guided Slovak Adrián Balog general audience internal
Gizela Bikarova - Memories
created: 11. 12. 2018 10:37 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The interview with G. Bikarova was recorded in July 2014. G. Bikarova was born in the year 1930 in the Helcmanovce village, district of Gelnica. She spoke about her memories from the Second World War and after it finished. She speaks in the dialect typical for the Lower Spis Region.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Gizela Bikárová general audience internal
Ján Oláh
created: 10. 05. 2018 15:49 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Memories spoken by Ján Oláh of the life of Roma before and after the revolution in the year 1989, about a family and family values of Roma, about work and discrimination he is facing in everyday life. The interview was recorded on 24th of August, 2013 in Klenovec, district of Rimavská Sobota.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Ján Oláh general audience internal
Milan Makula - speaking
created: 18. 12. 2017 14:31 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The interview came on 15.11.2013. Milan Makula (1969-) is a field social worker in the village Kendice in the Prešov district. He was born and raised in a rural Romani family in the village of Haniska near Prešov, who lived and lives in an integrated way of life, not in the context of a large Roma community. In the interview he focuses on the topics of family, life priorities, work life, and value orientation in the Roma community in Kendice.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Milan Makula general audience internal
Ľudovít Petík - speaking
created: 18. 12. 2017 14:26 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The interview was created on 23.11.2013. Ľudovít Petík (1952 -) was born in the village of Ražňany in the district of Sabinov, to a large, classical music family of Roma, they were the rural musicians. Although he did not continue with this tradition, his children and grandchildren revived it and successfully developed it further. In the interview, he addresses the issues of the family, the state of society and the Roma community, social changes and the assessment of their impact specifically on the Roma. Mediated memories of World War II events are an important part of the testimony. He obtained these facts from his father, who was a direct participant in the war events in Slovakia and Germany.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Ľudovít Petík general audience internal
