Roma-Tag Festival 2025: „Die Sonnenblume“

In the organizer's words:

Roma poetry with live music

Poems that bear witness to the cultural diversity of the Sinti and Roma, of those peoples without a state and without a country of their own, who came over 500 years ago from India via Persia to Asia Minor and from there partly via Arabia and Africa to Spain, via Greece to Eastern and Central Europe and via Russia to Northern Europe. They have been translated into German from over 20 languages, poems about longing and expulsion, love and persecution, fear and hatred, far removed from any kind of traveling folklore and "gypsy" romanticism. We learn, for example, that the sunflower is the flower of the Roma.