A Romani (Gypsy) girl in eastern Bulgaria baked bread on a fire.
(April 2004)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Roma, #Gypsies, #Zigeuner, #Brotbacken, #bread_baking, #Shumen, #Bulgaria

Turkish Gypsy girls (Roma) dance at a conference on Gypsies in Edirne (European Turkey).
(May 2005)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Tanz, #dance, #Gypsies, #Roma, #Zigeuner, #Edirne, #Thracia, #Türkei, #Turkey

Grave lamp with the Polish inscription: ‘It was God's will’ in a Duisburg cemetery (grave of Gypsies who originally immigrated from Poland).
(October 2011)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Lampen, #lamps, #Grableuchten, #Friedhöfe, #cemeteries, #Gräber, #graves, #Duisburg, #Kelderara, #Gypsies, #Zigeuner

Gypsy (Roma) children near Veliki Preslav (Eastern Bulgaria).
(April 2004)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Gypsies, #Roma, #Zigeuner, #Kinder, #children, #Pferde, #horses, #Veliki_Preslav, #Bulgarien, #Bulgaria

At the medieval Christmas market in Siegburg, there was also a fortune teller's cart. She supposedly tells fortunes according to Sinti tradition (German Gypsies).
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Mittelalterlicher_Markt, #medieval_market, #Wahrsagerin, #fortune_teller, #Sinti, #Zigeuner, #Siegburg

Once again, Sinti Gypsies and their friends have organized a Cologne Gypsy Night (concert).
Presumably concerned that “politically correct” ideologues (non-Gypsies!) might take aggressive action against the term “Zigeuner" (Gypsies) and tear down the posters, they added a statement to the poster defending the term. - This is Germany ...
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Sinti, #music, #political_correctness", #ideology

Grave decorations set up for the funeral of a Gypsy (Lovari) in a Cologne cemetery. These represent the hobbies of the deceased: playing cards, horse racing, and billiards.
(November 2016)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Begräbnis, #funeral, #Grabschmuck, #grave_decorations, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Lovara, #Rom, #Friedhof, #cemetery, #Köln

Seen at the grave of a German Gypsy (Sinto) in a Cologne cemetery:
(September 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Grabbeigaben, #Gräber, #graves, #Friedhöfe, #cemeteries, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Sinti