Roma-Tag-Festival 2026: „Sonnenblume“

In the organizer's words:

Poetry from KZ
Literary encounter with 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 over 500 years ago came 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 more than 20 languages, poems about longing and expulsion, love and persecution, fear and hatred, far removed from any travel-wagon folklore and "gypsy" romanticism. We learn, for example, that the sunflower is the flower of the Roma.