Anita Awosusi

Anita Awosusi (* 1956 ) is a German author, editor, musician and civil rights activist who campaigns for the rights of the Sinti and Roma . She is Sintezza .

Life

Anita Awosusi was born in 1956. Her parents are survivors of the Porajmos , the Holocaust against the Sinti and Roma under National Socialism . Anita Awosusi has been campaigning for the rights of the Sinti and Roma since the mid-1980s . Since the 1990s she has published as an author on the culture of remembrance of the Porajmos, on music and critical of stereotyped depictions of the Sinti and Roma.

She was the head of the dialogue department and a member of the board of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg. As part of this activity she worked as a political educator on the politics of memory of the Porajmos with young people.

As a musician, she developed the music and poetry project Rom Som - Ich bin ein Mensch - poetry and songs of the Sinti and Roma together with the violinist Romeo Franz and u. a. Musicians. Anita Awosusi performs (traditional) lamentations and lyrical texts about the persecution of Roma and Sinti during National Socialism by Sinti and Roma from all over Europe. She is accompanied by the Sinti jazz band Romeo Franz Ensemble .

Her husband is the guitarist Hope Awosusi , who plays in the Karlsruhe jazz-funk-soul band Awosusi Quintet , her daughter is the R'n'B and soul singer Tayo Awosusi . Anita Awosusi lives in Karlsruhe.

Awards

In 1996, Anita Awosusi received, together with Michael Krausnik and Romani Rose, the special prize for special program achievements of the Civis TV Prize for the contribution Goodbye in Heaven - The Children of St. Josefspflege (SWF).

literature

• Anita Awosusi, Michail Krausnick : Catalog for the exhibition “The survivors are the exception” - the genocide of Sinti and Roma : an exhibition by the Association of German Sinti, Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz, Landau, Pfalz 1992.
• Anita Awosusi, Michail Krausnick: Departure: Karlsruhe. The deportation of the Palatinate and Karlsruhe Sinti. Documents and oral reminder, in: Bulletin trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz, year 1994, no .: 44/45, pp. 97–111.
• Anita Awosusi (Ed.): The Music of the Sinti and Roma (= series of publications by the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma ), Heidelberg 1996–1998, 3 volumes:
  • Volume I: The Hungarian “Gypsy Music ” , ISBN 3-929446-07-3 .
  • Volume II: The Sinti Jazz , ISBN 3-929446-09-X .
  • Volume III: The Flamenco , ISBN 3-929446-10-3 .
• Anita Awosusi (Ed.): Keyword: Gypsies - On the stigmatization of Sinti and Roma in dictionaries and encyclopedias . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-88423-141-3 .
• Anita Awosusi (ed.): Gypsy pictures in children's and youth literature . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-88423-177-4 .
• Anita Awosusi, Romeo Franz, Unge Schmitt: The invisible people: Colloquium on Sinti and Roma at the University of Bremen in the winter semester 1999/2000 , Radio Bremen 2000.
  • Volume 9: Rom Som - Poetry and songs of the Sinti and Roma .
• Anita Awosusi, Andreas Pflock: Sinti and Roma in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp - suggestions for visiting a memorial site - history, tour, biographies, information. Documentation and cultural center. German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-929446-19-7 .
• Anita Awosusi, Andreas Pflock: Giving the victims a face - historical photographs in the context of the educational work of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, in: Silvio Peritore, Frank Reuter (Ed.): Staging of the foreigner. Photographic representation of Sinti and Roma in the context of historical image research , Heidelberg 2011, pp. 263–279, ISBN 978-3-929446-28-9 .
• Anita Awosusi: Foreword to the dossier Perspectives and Analyzes of Sinti and Roma in Germany , edited by Jane Schuch and Isidora Randjelović , Berlin 2014.

Web links

• Anita Awosusi, biography, in: Heinrich Böll Foundation, author's note in the "Heimatkunde" dossier, December 3, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anita Awosusi, biography, in: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, author's note in the "Heimatkunde" dossier, December 3, 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rom Som - I am a person Poetry and songs of the Sinti and Roma
3. ↑ Visiting young guests from Karlsruhe, in: Website of the Documentation and Culture Center of German Sinti and Roma
4. ^ Opening of the portable exhibition in Lemgo, in: Website of the Documentation and Culture Center of German Sinti and Roma
5. ↑ Trainees from the city of Heidelberg organize the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism on January 27, 2003, in: Website of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma
6. ↑ Concerts, in: Website of the Förderverein Archive, research and meeting place Central Office Ludwigsburg for the investigation of National Socialist crimes eV ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Master Hope Awosusi's website
8. ↑ Gathering Yoliba, Black Art and Artists Festival (Black Bazaar 2014), program, Berlin February 22, 2014
9. ↑ Silvio Peritore, Frank Reuter (ed.): Staging of the Stranger. Photographic representation of Sinti and Roma in the context of historical image research. Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-929446-28-9
10. ↑ Dossier Perspectives and Analyzes of Sinti and Roma in Germany , ed. by Jane Schuch and Isidora Randjelović , in: Website of the Heinrich Böll Foundation , Migration Policy Portal, December 3, 2014.