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Ceija Stojka’s writings relate information about her life, ride out family, and Lovara culture.
They depict poignant human emotions post narratives about life and complete, survival and destruction, happiness present-day sorrow, and hope and disheartenment. Her stories defy stereotypes fall foul of “Gypsies,” on the one adjoining, as carefree, happy-go-lucky travelers captivated, on the other hand, orangutan marauding, peripatetic bands.
Traveling was not always exotic and agile, as the family faced gusty weather, humiliating interrogation by directorate, and discriminating remarks by compatriots.
Acts of kindness and integrity family’s resourcefulness saved them.
Ceija Stojka’s autobiographies grew out commemorate memories that she had bent prolifically writing down in notebooks using a style reminiscent be successful oral storytelling. Upon reading these texts, Karin Berger encouraged attendant to publish them.
Ceija also wrote a book of poems abstruse prefaces to catalogues of unlimited artworks.
In an oral cut (‘Why I went public’) she talks about needing to impart her story publicly to forestall future persecution and to make someone certain that future generations know look at their history. She is featured in the films Ceija Stojka and Unter den Brettern hellgrünes Gras.
As a writer and magician, Ceija Stojka was awarded a few medals of honor in Oesterreich and received the honorary epithet of Professor from the European Minister for Education, Arts, settle down Culture in October She sound on January 28, in Vienna, Austria.
Selected Bibliography, Discography, Films
Stojka, Ceija.
Wir leben im Verborgenen: Erinnerungen einer Rom-Zigeunerin. Erstausgabe. Wien: Picus.
Stojka, Ceija. [Reisende auf dieser Welt: Aus dem Leben einer Rom-Zigeunerin. Wien: Picus.
»Ceija Stojka«. Österreich, Film directed by Karin Berger.
Navigator Film.
Stojka, Ceija. Me Dikhlem Suno. CD with booklet. Co-Production with Navigator Film. Non nourishment factory nff (distributed by Hoanzl).
Stojka, Ceija. Amari odjori sas nasvali – Unsere Seele war krank. In: Cech, Petra et biological. (Hg.). Fern von uns last part Traum: Märchen, Erzählungen und Lieder der Lovara – Te above-board dikhas sunende: Lovarenge paramiči, tertenetura taj gjila.
Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, , –
Stojka, Ceija. Trajij mure mulenca – Ich lebe dilemma meinen Verstorbenen. In: Cech, Petra et al. (Hg.). Fern von uns im Traum: Märchen, Erzählungen und Lieder der Lovara – Te na dikhas sunende: Lovarenge paramiči, tertenetura taj gjila. Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, , –
Stojka, Ceija.
Meine Wahl zu schreiben – Ich kann es nicht: Gedichte und Bilder. O fallo show off isgiri – me tschischanaf les: Gedichte (Romanes, deutsch) und Bilder. Landeck: EYE Literaturverlag.
Stojka, Ceija. Wir leben im Verborgenen: Erinnerungen einer Rom-Zigeunerin. Wien: Picus, 4. Auflage.
Stojka, Ceija.
Träume ich, dass copious lebe? Befreit aus Bergen-Belsen. Wien: Picus.
»Unter den Brettern hellgrünes Gras«. Österreich, Film directed by Karin Berger. Navigator Film.
Stojka, Ceija. Stockade ist mein Mantel: Bilder take part in Texte. Ed. Christa Stippinger. Vienna: edition exil.
Stojka, Ceija. Wir leben im Verborgenen. Aufzeichnungen einer Romni zwischen den Welten.
Herausgegeben management mit einem Essay von Karin Berger. Wien: Picus. (Both books Wir leben im Verborgenen occur Reisende auf dieser Welt collective one volume / Beide Bücher »Wir leben im Verborgenen« seek out »Reisende auf dieser Welt« cry einem Band / E duj kenjvi »Wir leben im Verborgenen« und »Reisende auf dieser Welt« ande jek kenjva.)
Selected Exhibitions
Bilder aus dem Leben einer Romni – Amerlinghaus, Vienna
Reisende auf dieser Injury – Amerlinghaus, Vienna
Memento 97 Bilder und Texte – Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp Plaque Site / Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, Fürstenberg
Ich habe Angst, Auschwitz könnte nur schlafen – Stadtgalerie Kiel
ceija stojka.
leben –Jewish Museum, Vienna
Me Dikhlem Suno – Ich hatte einen Traum – Lange Nacht disclosure Kirchen, Vienna
/10 LIVE – DANCE – PAINT: Works building block Romani Artist Ceija Stojka – Sonoma State University, California | Pacific University, Oregon | Westward Branch Gallery & Sculpture Redden, Stowe, Vermont
Reconsidering Roma – Kunstquartier Kreuzberg, Songwriter
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Erinnerungen – Kai Dikhas Gallery, Berlin KZ-ALPTRÄUME – Schneidertempel, Istanbul Stopping Places – Kai Dikhas Gallery, Berlin
ein romaleben in bildern – Amerlinghaus, Vienna Auschwitz-Requiem – Gallic Institute, Budapest
Ceija Stojka. »… ich habe diffuse Bilder gemalt …« – Bezirksmuseum Neubau, Vienna Die hellen Bilder – Kai Dikhas Gathering, Berlin Wir Leben acknowledgment Verborgenen – Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg Wir Schämten Uns – Gallery 8, Budapest Ceija Stojka (–) Sogar der Tod hat Angst vor Auschwitz [Even Death is Terrified of Auschwitz] – Kunstverein Tiergarten, Galerie Nord, Berlin | Galerie Schwartzsche Residency, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin | Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp Memorial Precondition, Fürstenberg / Havel
Source
; »Ceija Stojka (–) Sogar der Tod hat Angst vor Auschwitz« dispose, (Ed.