At the end of the 1990s, I picked up a poet from the Salzburg main train station that I had never met before. When he got off the train, he stood laughing with the conductor for a while and said goodbye to the engine driver by calling him a few boisterous words in Tyrolean dialect. Because Romedius Mungenast was himself a railway worker and proud of it, also professionally moving stand to belong The Yenish, an ethnic group who live scattered across northern Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and southern Germany, are often said to be travellers, migrant workers, vagabonds, people of unsettled residence. It is not known how many of them there are, since most of the Yeniche in the 20th century did not attach importance to being identified as such, because in their history they had often been persecuted, and worst of all, by the National Socialists.
Karl-Markus Gauss on the Yeniche in Austria – Opinion
