Landlos. Türken in Vorarlberg
- Publisher
- Fotohof / Otto Müller Verlag
- Year
- 1991
- ISBN
- 9783701308163
- Specifications
- Hardcover
24 x 30 cm
96 pages
57 b/w images
Language: German
No other Austrian federal state is home to as many Turkish guest workers as a percentage of the total population as Vorarlberg. The question of home and foreign, one's own country and the search for a new place to live arises very directly here. The Vorarlberg photographer Nikolaus Walter asked himself these questions in collaboration with the Turkish translator and poet Kundeyt Surdum. In sensitive and direct reportage photos, Nikolaus Walter follows the everyday life of Turks in Vorarlberg, some of whom have been living here for the second generation. He shows how the tension between cultures manifests itself within the generations and the Turkish population group, but also how a way of life emerges that is very reminiscent of the period of reconstruction in post-war Austria. In addition, a text by Kurt Greussing highlights some important facts and connections between different cultures.