Nikolaev Society of Germans, with the support of the Regional Council has created the film "Motherland, that was."
The movie tells of the almost 200-year history of the
colonies-settlements, which were located in Nikolaev Ukraine - Landau,
Karlsruhe, Speyer, Caterinental, Christina and Sulz, about people, about
the rise and decline of settlements.
The total budget amounted to 12.5 thousand UAH, of which 6000 were
assigned from the regional budget, the press service of the Nikolaev
Regional Council informed.
The head of the Nikolaev regional society of Germans in Ukraine
"Wiedergeburt" Igor Meisner during the meeting with the head of the
Nikolaev Regional Council, Igor Dyatlov presented the documentary and
spoke about the work that the organization conducted in Nikolaev.
The idea of making a film about the history of settlements on the
territory of Nikolaev belongs to I. Meisner, and the author was the
editor of the news channel "NIS-TV" Tatiana Cherkes.
- We will give the discs with the film to the universities, and for the
year the film presentation will be organized - Igor Meisner said. - In
addition, we have decided to distribute the film in all organizations of
ethnic Germans in Ukraine, for people to see that for little money such
a film can be made.
He also thanked the deputies of the Regional Council, through which a
program for the promotion of multinational cultures of Nikolaev region
was adopted.
The first deputy head of the regional council,
Vladimir Pashchenko was a
guest of the presentation of the documentary about the history of
German colonies in what is now the Nikolaev Ukraine region, “Motherland,
Which Was" was held recently in Kiev. The organizers of the event were
Nikolaev regional society of Germans of Ukraine Wiedergeburt together
with the German Council of Ukraine.
The presentation tape was also attended by special guests: Deputy
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine - Mrs. Anca
Feldguzen, former chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee on
Nationalities and Religions - Yuri Reshetnikov, General Director of
Nikolaev Friendly Society in Kiev - Alexander Gritsai, representatives
of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine,
Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, the Goethe Institute and others.
Vladimir Pashchenko told the audience about the implementation of the
regional program ‘Preservation and development of ethnic, cultural and
linguistic identity of minorities in Nikolaev region’ for 2010-2013 and
assured that it will continue in the future. It should be noted that
partial funding for the film "Motherland, which was" was carried out by
the regional budget under this program. The chairman of the regional
society of Germans of Nikolaev in Ukraine Wiedergeburt Igor Meisner, in
turn, thanked the Board and the Nikolaev Region State Administration for
the financial and organizational support in making the film.
In addition, immediately before watching the movie, a letter was read of
the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Mikhail Kulinyak with welcoming
words to the organizers and participants of the presentation. In it he
noted that ‘the German company played a prominent role in public life,
promote inter-ethnic accord approval, and this multi-faceted activity is
one of the important pillars of strengthening the friendly relations
between Ukraine and the State of Germany’.
Presentation of the film "Motherland which used to be" would be
organized during the year in educational and cultural institutions in
Nikolaev and other Ukrainian cities.
