Media P resentations of Alterity in Terms of Literary Stereotypes and Prejudices: Zigeuner (Gypsy) Representations Franziska Krumwiede (
[email protected] ) On 25 th of October 2012 the “Memorial to the In several European countries the present murdered Sinti and Roma persecuted during the image of “Sinti and Roma” is based on a history Third Reich” opened. The history stands of marginalization, institutional exclusion and exemplarily for the difficult range of interests prejudices. Despite that research people still concerning “Sinti and Roma” in Germany. This suffer from a lack of institutional power to protect opening act is so important because it took more the members of this minority by law. Bogdal than 60 years after the persecution and mass points out that the sustainability of the intellectual killing after World War II to build a memorial for construct of Europe might depend on intercultural “Sinti and Roma” in the Capitol of Germany, concepts that arrange equal living conditions for Berlin. This memorial stands near the “Memorial “Sint i and Roma” ( 2011 , 10). To give an example to the Murdered Jews of Europe” which opened why t his thesis weighs a lot , let us look at what is in 2005. The German Bundestag had decided on happening to Roma people in the European 25 th of June 1999 – after eleven years of public cultural capital Košice where I have just been. debate – to build this memorial near the About 6000 Roma live in a Ghetto in Košice’ s Brandenburg Gate. The memorial is stage win of Lunik IX. The Roma are concentrated there the civil rights movement of the 1979 “Sinti and without having public access to electricity, water Roma”.