(14 Apr 2025)
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Schleife, Germany – 5 April 2025
1. Women dressed in traditional Sorbian clothes decorating easter reggs Sorbian style
2. Close wax gets applied on egg
3. Pan down from face of young woman to her putting wax on egg
4. Wax gets applied on egg
5. Camera pan of different stages of a Sorbian decorated egg
6. Wide of different stages of Sorbian egg decorating
7. Close of wax applied on egg
8. Woman in traditional Sorbian clothes applies wax on egg
9. Several Sorbian easter eggs on display
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Anke Hanusch, Sorbian egg decorator:
“As soon as you can hold a pen, you can also hold a goose feather quill or a needle. Then you can start making tally marks and the children do this at the age of two or three.”
11. Close of Sorbian easter egg with ears of corn and sun motives
12. Close ofSorbian easter egg with wolfs teeth and honeycomb motives
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefanie Bierholdt, employee of the Sorbian cultural center in Schleife, Germany:
"And nowadays we have the Sorbian people here as a minority. It’s one of the four minorities in Germany.”
14. Woman in traditional Sorbian clothes decorates egg surrounded by several easter eggs
15. Focus pan from applying wax on an egg to already finished Sorbian easter eggs
16. Close wax gets applied on egg
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefanie Bierholdt, employee of the Sorbian cultural center in Schleife, Germany:
“So we have about 40,000 to 60,000 Sorbian people here in Germany.”
18. Close of Easter egg on a branch
19. Easter eggs on branches
20. SOUNDBITE (German) Anke Hanusch, Sorbian egg decorator:
“I think it’s a valuable cultural asset that needs to be preserved. It would be a shame if it died out.”
21. Baskets filled with Sorbian easter eggs
22. Close of smiling bunny
23. Baskets filled with Sorbian easter eggs
24. Easter eggs with images scratched onto the eggs
25. Close egg with image of a mouse scratched onto it
26. Focus pan from egg decorating to crocheted chick
27. Various of chicks
STORYLINE:
Anke Hanusch dips her needle into dark blue wax and dots it precisely on a yellow-dyed Easter egg in her hand.
Back and forth, wax to egg, egg to wax, as the honeycomb pattern grows.
The intricate motif means the egg will ultimately be a gift from a godparent to their godchild, to bestow diligence and a good work ethic upon the youngster.
The tradition of decorating Easter eggs is part of the culture of the Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority in Germany.
Modern-day Sorbs are descended from Slavic tribes in Central and Eastern Europe who settled in Germany some 1,500 years ago.
About 60,000 Sorbs currently live in Germany, split between the federal states of Saxony and Brandenburg.
Stephanie Bierholdt, an employee at the Sorbian Cultural Center in Schleife, a town just 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the Polish border, said Easter is the biggest holiday of the year for Sorbs and people travel home to celebrate with their loved ones.
Bierholdt, Hanusch and other members of Schleife’s Sorbian community gathered at the cultural center April 6, two weeks ahead of the holiday, to celebrate their heritage through the Easter eggs and traditional folk costumes, songs and dances.
Sorbian egg-decorating dates back to the Middle Ages.
Hanusch, wearing the red folk costume and bonnet of an unmarried woman (married women wear green), was among more than 30 artisans selling their Easter eggs at the cultural center.
The artisans use a needle or the tip of a goose feather quill, cut in different ways, to draw the designs.
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