Tuesday 19 January 2016

Stories inspired by old photos: Migration



FRANCE
     
     Everyday, on Tv we see the terrible fate migrant people are confronted to everywhere in the world. I remember having watched a documentary that suprised me : I see men and women ready to sacrifice their lives for a better future.They pay on outragoeus amourent of money to booad a poor boat in which they riste their lives. They are crowded all together in little crafts in awful conditions.Since these trips are illegal as soon as awthorities see them, they send them boste to their homeland withour further consideration.


ITALY

     I look at this photo and … like a magic … I come inside it … The Second world war came to an end  and John,  a seventeen years old orphan,  spent most of his time at the station playing the guitar to gain some  money.  He  didn’t  know  what to do in the future. One day, just at the station, he met Joseph, who told  him his sad story. He decided to leave hoping to have a better future. Both of them loved  music, he played  harmonica.
     At a certain time they heard someone crying.  A boy felt down on the rails and the train was arriving. John and Joseph  ran faster than they could save him. The two young guys became friends.
     After some months they met in Berlin ,they  became musicians and helped  young people who dreamt  a better life.


SPAIN

     These people are at a railway station. They seem to be having a party. It is 1952 and they are going somewhere to look for a job. They are very happy because they believe that they will find a better life in the country or town they are going to.  There are not any women. There is a person playing the guitar and smoking a pipe. On his left, next to the train, there is a man carrying a suitcase. There are a lot of people.
     Some of them could find a job and worked there for some years, but others couldn’t. These people who couldn’t get a job felt sad and disappointed.

Berta Gómez



GERMANY

The grandfather
     It was the 10th of november 1989. Finn – a gifted guitar player – had not expected such a rush. He stood at the Frankfurt main station and saw a very large group of people coming closer. Some with only one or two backpacks – coming from the GDR. To search their fortune in the western side of Germany. Some with little childs in their arms who are still too small to walk. Finn was there to pick up his grandfather Heinz. But it was impossible to find him between all these people. Just at this moment he saw him! Not his grandfather, he saw a young man with a guitar on his back. Hew went to him and knew intuitively what to do – he had to play the guitar. He asked the young man: „Can I have the guitar, I want to play it?“ „Yes sure! I got it from an older man. Hew told me to give it to the first man who asks you.“ Was this guy his grandfather, he asked himself. Or just a coincidence. He looked for a place where he can play and thought about the right song. He decided that „Sonderzug nach Pankow“ from Udo Lindenberg is the perfect song for this day - but not the normel version, the special one: „Sonderzug aus Pankow“. He played the first chords and started singing: „Entschuldigen Sie, ist das der Sonderzug aus Pankow...“. All heads turned to him, including the one of an older man, with the same eyecolour as Finn. And this man laughed. Finn knew immediately it was his grandfather...


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