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Moderne; Brauch;
Tradition;...
What if everyone had stayed?
If everyone had stayed in their homeland. The homeland with its customs and traditions, its familiar surroundings and nature. A homeland full of tradition, full of life and a deeply rooted community.
A fundamental question. Especially for the Transylvanian Saxons, a German minority from and in Romania. An ethnic group that, like many others, gave up and lost the center of its life in the aftermath of the Second World War and the communist dictatorship. And as a result, found, indeed had to find, a new home in distant countries.
How do these people combine their customs and traditions with their new surroundings, their new place of residence and their new community? And how do people combine their identity with their new living situation? How do they manage to maintain contact with each other and preserve their individuality outside of their familiar village communities and the busy cities of Transylvania?
Over several generations now the Transylvanian Saxons and their descendants do exactly that. Just like many other people from other ethnic groups and communities.
In our modern world, this is no longer the unique characteristic of a few ethnic groups. It has become part of modernity, part of our world today. In this modern world with its economic achievements, people use these very customs and traditions to locate themselves in the here and now; to anchor themselves in modernity.
People need tradition, indeed the
MODERNE BRAUCH(T) TRADITION
(modern need(s) tradition.)
And in this theme cycle I want to address the question of how, as well as explore challenges and contradictions that
Modernity ; Custom ; Tradition ;...
connect with each other.
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