Flying visit in the Roma ghetto.

Between bottomless frustration and glorious plans: The Roma are a scattered million people which is never quite it. Leipziger students meet with their tramp trip to Eastern Europe by members of the largest minority in the EU - and learn why people with Hindi among Roma land.

 

Located in the Euro-election campaign by traveling reporters mephisto 97.6, the local radio station of the University of Leipzig, criss-crossed by the new EU member states: two weeks through the Baltic States, Poland and the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. There are strict rules: Students may only hitchhike, train and bus are taboo. Hotels and hostels are also prohibited, the Leipzig need every day anew in a place the residents are looking for.

So take it to people who are not normally in the media, and get another view of the country. With the tramp trip they make to a project from the year 2004. At that time, shortly after the EU's eastward expansion was already Leipzig Radio Reporter losgetrampt to the fears and prejudices against the new EU states to meet.

Now once again report on Leipziger Tramper blogs ONLINE. Teams make three totally different encounters with the largest minority in the European Union: the Roma. Eight to ten million live according to estimates in the European Union, most of them in Eastern Europe. Team Slovakia allegedly visited Roma only professional theater in the world, the Czech Republic team is talking with a family in a house Pilsener Roma on prejudices and Hungary team meets in the Roma ghetto of Szeged to Attila, who alone in a cottage signal resides.