Igor Dužda
created: 14. 07. 2021 10:12 modified: 03. 03. 2023 12:15
Igor Dužda was the first Romani editor of the Romani minority Broadcasting in Slovak Radio. He worked there for 17 years. He graduated from the University, his grandmother was a sister of the first Romani writer in former Czechoslovakia Elena Lacková. He also writes stories from the Romani environment as well as the Romani fairy-tales.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Igor Dužda general audience internal
Gypsy Kubanec
created: 08. 07. 2021 14:50 modified: 08. 07. 2021 14:57
Gypsy Kubanec, originally Viktor Paulovič, the Romani musician and singer. Represents modern rom-pop. In the video interview he is presented as a musician who is discovering the ways how to get attention of large audience, so that he can bring joy from Romani rhythms to as many people as it is possible. The interview was made in April 25, 2013 in Myjava.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak general audience internal
Jozef Vidlička
created: 19. 10. 2020 10:57 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Jozef Vidlička speaking about poverty and life of people in Eastern Slovakia, especially Roma in the years after WWII. He spent bigger and better part of his life in Czech Republic. In the region of Sudety, after repatriation of Germans, he and his parents worked. There he also spent two years of the obligatory military service. After the so-called velvet revolution he and his family came back to his birth place in Slovakia.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Jozef Vidlička general audience internal
Anička Oláhová - The Portrait
created: 27. 09. 2020 18:21 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Anička Oláhová became recognized by public in 2011, after she won the singing contest organized by Dorota Nvotová (a well-known Slovak singer, actress and publicist), the jury consisted of members of the Gypsy Devils ensamble. The interview with the young talented singer introduces the portrait of a girl with not so typical family background, her attitude to art, music, to her own identity as well as her expectations from future. The video interview was done in June 12, 2013 in Lovinobaňa.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Anna Oláhová general audience internal
The Ethnographic Musem in Tarnow
created: 26. 09. 2020 23:46 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
The video presents the Roma exposition in the Ethnographic Museum in Tarnów, Poland, which has been open since 1979. The origin and content of the exposition are presented by the prominent Polish ethnographer and anthropologist Adam Bartosz.
category: speaking
tags: academic scientific commentary monologue humanities Polish Adam Bartosz general audience internal
Viliam Šarközy - Candelabra
created: 26. 05. 2020 14:56 modified: 06. 09. 2021 10:00
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. The video documents the production of a candelabra. The video documents the production of the candelabra.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Viliam Šarközy st. general audience internal
Igor Radič - A smith from Klenovec
created: 13. 05. 2020 11:00 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 Igor Radič general audience internal
Michal Bársony - The Traditions of the Romani Handcrafts
created: 18. 02. 2020 10:05 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Born in the village Kunova Teplica, the district of Roznava. The family spoke Hungarian, and kept the tradition of smithery and music. He graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, specialzed in fine arts and Russian language. The post-gradual studies completed at the Pedagogical Faculty of University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, awarded with the title PeadDr. His main creation is painting and drawing, with prevailing themes of the sacral nature, as well as some women portraits and landscapes. As a pedagogue worked at several elementary and secondary schools, as well as at universities. He also worked for the State Institute Of Pedagogy.
category: speaking
tags: biographical monologue guided Slovak Michal Bársony general audience internal
Albert Kovac
created: 10. 02. 2020 19:57 modified: 27. 11. 2020 02:00
Albert Kovac (1978) spent his childhood in the village Sarovce nearby Levice. He completed the Secondary Grammar School (gymnasium) in Zeliezovce. He went on the University of Konstantin the Philosopher in Nitra where he graduated as social worker. His mother tongue is Hungarian. He is fluent in Slovak, English and German languages. He has passive knowledge of Romani language. He started working as mediator, since 2004 he worked as the project consultant employed by the Office of Plenipotentiary of Slovak Republic Government for Romani Communities in Rimavska Sobota.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Albert Kováč 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
