Häns'che Weiss
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Häns'che Weiss was a German gypsy jazz and modern jazz guitarist in the tradition of Django Reinhardt. From 1969-1972 he played with the Schnuckenack Reinhardt Quintett, after which he made five album
Häns'che Weiss in performance - still from 1977 German TV session
Autograph of the german sinti jazz guitarist Ziroli Winterstein
Sinti
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The Sinti are a subgroup of the Romani people. They are found mostly in Germany, France, Italy and Central Europe, numbering some 200,000 people. They were traditionally itinerant, but today only a sm
Häns'che Weiss
…jazz artists including the violinist Martin Weiss (his nephew), and the double bass player Vali Mayer. Weiss was born in 1951 in Berlin to a musical Sinto (German Romani) family, learning to play the guitar from his father Gono who before the second world war had played violin, guitar, accordion and zither…
Sinti people in Rhine Province, Germany, 1935
Memorial in Nuremberg opposite Frauentorgraben 49, where on 15 September 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in the ballroom of the Industrial & Cultural Association clubhouse
Deportation of Sinti and Roma in Asperg, 22 May 1940
Memorial for murdered Sinti in Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld