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Wenn in Deutschland über Roma diskutiert wird, werden sie meist mit Verschmutzung, Arbeitslosigkeit und Sozialschmarotzertum in Verbindung gebracht. Auffällig dabei: Die Roma selbst kommen fast nie zu Wort. Anders in einem neuen Film, der am Sonntag in Frankfurt Premiere feiert – er gibt Frankfurter Roma eine vernehmbare Stimme.
The paper analyzes the handling of sources in the historic and ethnographic literature about Roma. In it a tradition of copying can be found without sufficient acknowledgement of sources, the unchecked assumpti on of foreign statements and inadmissible generalization. These characteristic features are integrated into a pejorative structure. The historic and ethnographic literature is characterized by a moralizing condemnation of those referred to as „gypsies” whereas the social realities remain largely hidden. It is based on only a few sources, in which statements about Roma in the Transylvanian area take a key role. Texts from the 17th to the 19th century are referred to in context of this aspect and are analyzed on their contents.