In the organizer's words:

Centuries ago, Germans moved to Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina under great hardship and danger. They founded flourishing settlements. But the wheel of history continued to turn relentlessly. National Socialism and Communism destroyed their livelihoods. They had to return to their old homeland, where they were now strangers. House and garden were a thing of the past. Now they lived in high-rise buildings in cramped three-room apartments and had to adapt to a completely different world. Will they succeed in building "a little house" again?

Peter von Kapri was born in Bucharest in 1944. He came to Germany as a young man, studied in Munich and New York and made a career as a banker, consultant and journalist. Today he is an author, photographer and passionate traveler. In his lecture, he tells the eventful story of the departure, diversity, crises and return of these emigrants and their descendants.

A joint event of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation and the Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany - Düsseldorf District Group