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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