minorities in europe: life between the alps and the sea
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Minorities in Europe: life between the Alps and the sea Chur, 14-11-2012 - Europe is home to over 300 minority ethnic groups, encompassing more than 100 million people. One person in seven belongs to a minority. Beginning in 2006, RTR Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha has been producing a series of film profiles covering the three language minorities in Switzerland's canton Grisons, as well as ten others throughout Europe. As part of the European Minority Film Festival in Husum, Germany, RTR invites you to the presentation of a DVD boxed set of the 13 profiles on 24 November 2012. They live between the Alps and the seas. Europe's minorities have much in common. For example, the Rhaeto-Romansch of canton Grisons and the Frisians of Schleswig-Holstein both live in areas where others like to spend their holidays. Both Grisons and North Frisia produce far more energy than is used by the local population, with electricity generated from water in the former, and from wind in the latter. The Frisians and Romansch share their homelands with other language groups. In canton Grisons, the Romansch have the Italian Grisonians and the Walser as neighbours, while the Frisians live alongside both Danish and German-speakers. The films, produced by Romansch-language television for its "Minorities in Europe" series over the past few years, are a striking record of the enormous commitment of these minorities and ethnic groups to preserving their languages and their cultures. Première in Husum RTR is the public-service radio and television broadcaster for Romansch-speaking Switzerland, and forms one of the enterprise units of SRG SSR. It broadcasts a 24-hour full-service Romansch-language radio station, a daily 10-12-minute TV news magazine programme from Monday to Saturday, and a weekly general-interest TV magazine programme of just under half an hour every Sunday. All of RTR's services can also be found on the internet at www.rtr.ch. As part of the fourth European Minority Film Festival in Husum, RTR will present a boxed set of DVDs featuring its films on 13 minorities in Europe. All of the films have a choice of Romansch, German, French, Italian or English soundtrack. The festival is being hosted by RTR's friends at the "Friisk Foriining", under the patronage of Minister Anke Spoorendong from Schleswig-Holstein and the President of the Federalistic Union of European Nationalities FUEN, Hans Heinrich Hansen.
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"Rüm hart, klaar kimming" ("Open Heart – Clear Horizon"), a film in Frisian with German subtitles, will also be premièred as part of a cultural afternoon programme with the theme of "between the Alps and the sea". Minister Anke Spoorendonk and RTR Director Mariano Tschuor will speak about the political and journalistic challenges faced by minorities in the media. The event at Husum Castle begins at 3.00 pm and will end with a drinks party. For further information and to register, please visit: www.rtr.ch/husum
DVD boxed set featuring 13 film profiles of minorities in Europe RTR Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha produced 13 film profiles of language minorities and ethnic groups in Europe as part of its "Minorities in Europe" series between 2006 and 2012. The first film was devoted to Ladin speakers in the Dolomites, while the latest to date explored the lives of Romansch-speakers in Switzerland. All of the films were produced for the Svizra Rumantscha television magazine strand, which is broadcast on the three primary German, Italian and French-language public-service television channels in Switzerland. For the DVD boxed set, all of the films have also been translated into German, French, Italian and English. The other minorities and ethnic groups profiled by the series are: the Walser in canton Grisons (Switzerland), the Cornish in the United Kingdom, the North Frisians in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), the Sorbs in Germany, the Catalans in Spain, the Friuli in Italy, the Basque in Spain, the Alsations in France, the Croats in Burgenland (Austria), the Saxons in Transylvania (Romania), and the Italian Grisons in Switzerland. For further information and orders, please visit: www.rtr.ch/minoritads Further information: Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha Ruedi Bruderer tel. 081 255 75 75 e-mail: [email protected]