Gypsy Boxer - the theater performance
created: 10. 02. 2020 19:45 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Gypsy Boxer is a monodrama picturing the life of the German boxer of Romani (Sinti) origin Johann Wilhelm Trollman, known under the name „Rukeli“. In Nazi Germany Rukeli became the lightweight champion. Later on, he was stripped of the title because of his ethnical origin. Johann Trollman was in 1943 deported to concentration camp Neuengamme, where he was murdered.
Author: Rike Reiniger
Translation: Lucie Ceralova
Director: Gabriela Krecmerova
Plays: Filip Teller
category: drama
tags: theater drama spoken drama stage original Czech Filip Teller general audience internal
Viliam Šarközy Sn.
created: 10. 02. 2020 19:40 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Viliam Šarközy( 4.4.1939) is currently the oldest artistic smith in Dunajska Luzna. His smith products were many years sold by ULUV – the network of shops offering the folk art products. He is the author of many large sculptures; all of them made with great deal of artistic vision and smithery skill. His son Ivan follows his father’s footsteps.
Formerly, Dunajska Luzna was called the Iron Village. Smithery as a craft has more than 300 years long tradition there; until today being the place with the highest number of forges in Slovakia.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Viliam Šarközy st. general audience internal
Romani Pilgrimage in Zabno
created: 10. 02. 2020 19:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Factographic narrative about the memorial that was built in 2012 on the site of the execution of unknown Roma during World War II in 1943.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual monologue humanities Polish Adam Bartosz general audience internal
Romani Pilgrimage in Bielcza
created: 31. 01. 2020 15:27 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
In 1942 in Bielcza, Poland, the Germans murdered 41 Roma from the Kwiek family. They were nomadic Roma from Kalderash group. Their common grave is well cared by the local people.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual monologue humanities Polish Adam Bartosz general audience internal
Romani Pilgrimage in Borzęcin
created: 31. 01. 2020 15:23 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
In Poland, in the village Borzęcin at the local cemetery the memorial for 29 exhumed Roma was erected. They were murdered by Germans in 1942. Another memorial to these victims was created in the nearby forest, where the Roma were murdered by the Nazis.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual monologue humanities Polish Adam Bartosz general audience internal
Romani Pilgrimage in Szczurowa
created: 31. 01. 2020 14:24 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
During World War II, specifically in July 3, 1943 in Szczurowa in Poland, fascists assassinated 93 local Roma. This tragedy is commemorated by a memorial that is the first monument to the Roma Holocaust in the world.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual monologue humanities Polish Adam Bartosz general audience internal
Concert Luna
created: 22. 12. 2019 13:42 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
LUNA is the girls only band from Martin. Their repertoir covers both Romani and Slovak folk songs, many times they play also pop music in folk arrangment or classical music. These are the members of the band: Petra Cickova - accordeon, Božena Cickova - double bass, Michael Kazarova - violin, Stanislava Cickova - singer. The recording of the band performance was in June 7, 2013.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern mix quartet original Slovak Romani Luna general audience internal
Concert: Karel Adam
created: 20. 12. 2019 10:41 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The concert for celebration of the World Roma Day, organized in November 27, 2017 in the Wave Club, Hlavna st., Presov. Karel Adam was the principal conductor of the Romathan Theater. Together with his colleagues he prepared the program consisting of instrumental and vocal-instrumental compositions, both from Romani traditional folk and their own works. The listeners may listen to halgato, czardasz as well as to classical music pieces.
Karel Adam – violin, Eugen Bunda – cimbalom, Vladimir A+B12dam – second violin, Viktor Adam – double bass, Dasa Polakova – singer, Zaneta Stipakova – singer.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern mix orchestra borrowed Romani Karel Adam Dáša Polláková Žaneta Štipáková general audience internal
Patrik Samko
created: 16. 12. 2019 09:24 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
A short video about a craft of making and repairing the music instruments. Patrik Samko graduated from the school for violin makers placed in Luby (district of Cheb) in Czech Republic. In the short interview he introduces his work and his craft. The interview was recorded in 2013 during the Euroopean Romani Smithing Symposium.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Patrik Samko general audience internal
Igor Radic - The Valach Axe from Klenovec
created: 16. 12. 2019 09:18 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Igor Radič was born in 1960 in Klenovec where he lives and works untill now. Since his childhood he was fascinated by smithery. After completing his vocational training, he started to work as a smith for the Farmers Cooperative in Klenovec, he worked for the state woods company as well. He received more training by old smiths, masters of the craft. He is the statutory representative of the NGO Romani Artistic Smithery. The organization organizes workshops for smiths. He works both as industrial and artistic smith. His son Igor Radič jr. (1984) helps him in his workshop.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak general audience internal
