Insights and Incidents
Immigrants
Whitsun people in the new land
A few hundred years ago a lot of Germans went as immigrants to Russia to settle there.
Nowadays a lot of them want to come back to the
land of their ancestors, because they feel oppressed in cases of religion and language. Since Gorbatschow, they get the permission to leave.
During the last years a million of them came to Germany. A case of luck made it possible, that 200 members from a village Tschugujewka in Sibiria could keep together. All of them settled in Guntersblum a small village near Frankfurt. Nowadays they are whitsun people in the new land.
Text by Florian Hassel
Vintage gelatin silver prints, 24x30cm and 30x40cm, sig., stamp., notes, 1989
