The Kazakh Culture Festival in Munich, Germany (Kishi Quriltay) was held between the 26-27 May this year. This festival is usually organised by the association of the Kazakh Diaspora, also called the “Kazakh-Turks”, of the city. Kazakhs came from all over Europe; Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Turkey and Switzerland. […]
Taken and translated with permission from Eurasisches Magazin. Previous posts on the fate of the Russian-Germans are to be found here and here.
By Marco Lauer
It was their lost home they wanted to find here, and work. Many of them were disappointed as their expectations of Germany were not met by the realities they […]
According to official statistics of the Czech Government from 31.12.2005, the biggest group of migrants from Central Asia have been citizens of Kazakhstan. These numbers only include legal residents (with long-term visas or with a permanent residence permit): Kazakhstan - 2.247, Kyrgyzstan - 293, Tajikistan - 52, Turkmenistan - 18, and Uzbekistan - 363 […]
Kazakh refugees celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in Turkey at the end of August this year. Thousands of Kazakh families fled from Eastern Turkistan, today’s China’s Xinjiang province, first from the nationalist Chinese government, then from the Chinese Communist suppression since the beginning of the thirties.
These two large groups left their homes in search […]
What follows is another translation of a German article about people returning from Kazakhstan. It originally appeared in “Die Zeit”, Germany’s quality weekly. Due to its length, we only present certain passages.
By Ulla Lachauer
Russlanddeutsche cannot call anywhere home - neither Russia, nor Germany. Their biographies are fragmented, their stories resemble political arbitrariness. They come […]
What follows is the first part of a smaller series aimed at casting some light at how Germans from Kazakhstan have resettled in their ancestral homeland. A translation of an acticle that appeared in the German local paper Braunschweiger Zeitung portrays the typical Russian-German emigrant’s story.
A family story: The life paths of Katharina […]
