Once upon a time …
… „Puss in Boots“, „Sleeping Beauty”, “Snow White and the seven dwarfs”, “Sweet porridge”, “The wolf and the seven young kids”, “The valiant little tailor”, “From someone who set out to learn fear”, “The frog prince”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Mother Hulda”, “Cinderella”, “Snow White and Rose Red” …
And that are only the fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers. However, we also know fairy tales from Hauff and Andersen, Arabian fairy tales, Russian fairy tales …
They were with us when we were kids, they were told to us, we performed them with friends or watched the movies. The promoted our phantasy and creativity and mediated values. Not least, we learned our language with their help.
With limitations, Roma have of course also access to the world of those fairy tales. Unfortunately, they only rarely have their own ones. Roma fairy tales were not put down on the paper and therefore also not filmed. They can neither be found in the bookshelf nor in the library, in the book store or on the internet. The low number of still existing fairy tales are in the heads of just a few storytellers. It is only a question of time that they are also not available anymore…
Therefore, Sasas Jekhvar Jekh aimed at finding elderly Roma, particularly women, bearing the treasure of the Roma fairy tales inside themselves and who are ready to share it. Representatives of the partner organisations (partly Roma themselves) who were made familiar with recording devices and methods acted as fairy tale collectors, together with 43 multipliers who were trained in the project.
PHASE 1: Collection of the fairy tales
Introductory Training:
Collection of the fairy tales:
PHASE 2: Analysis and selection of the fairy tales
PHASE 3: Designing of the follow-up project
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