Mai lieben Nochpers oder Sprechen Sie Karpatendeutsch? (2015-2017)

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Documentary Film about Carpathian Germans and their language

Reminiscencie in co-operation with the [http://fphil.uniba.sk/|[Komensky University in Bratislava]] and Goethe Institute produces documentary film Sprechen Sie Karpatendeutsch? (Do you speak Carpathian-German?) based on s.c. language biographies of representants of slowly diminishing Carpathian German language richness in the Slovak territory. Viac o projekte tu. The film team (Jozef Tancer, interviewer, Viera Bačíková, cinematographer, Peter Toman, sound master and Anna Grusková, director) have been travelling through most important places in Slovakia, where the Carpathian minority used to live since 12th century, and made recordings and footages with the aim to preserve and present unique traces of once industrial and agricultural leading nationality on the today´s Slovakia territory. The “music” of “correct” German language, influenced by local vocabulary, syntax and both local and global history, develops through the ages in different dialects that are living testimonies of Slovak, German and European cultural diversity.

Work in progress video and examples of language biographies on demand.