Reenactors - Out of everyday life
Switzerland, Gletterens
05.09.2010
Village Lacustre Gletterens, lake dwelling village on Lake Neuchâtel. Observed by a bathing guest, the ethnologist François Rossel demonstrates a Stone Age fishing method with harpoon and fishing line on the beach of Gletterens.
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Switzerland, Walterswil
17.10.2010
The Legio XI association attaches great importance to authenticity. With their swords, the Romans stabbed, not struck.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
23.06.2011
The cowboys at the Old West Council call themselves authenticists. Charly tests what it feels like to be in a coffin. His colleagues Boss, Button, Puma and a guest can't take it too seriously.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
25.06.2011
Wanhinkpe luzahe alias Dirk Seckinger.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
23.06.2011
Old West Council. Duel in Chapps - Cowboy Button has pulled too late and falls, Charly remains standing.
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Switzerland, Gletterens
05.09.2010
Village Lacustre, Lake dwelling village on Lake Neuchâtel. Doris Aeberhard and Martin Bula. The museum educator and the youth worker both work as animators in the reconstructed lake dwelling village.
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Switzerland, Windisch
31.10.2010
In the dining room of his house, Centurio Titus Valleus Aheneus alias Thomas Schaub, from the Legio XI association, tells about life in the Roman army. In Vindonissa, at the confluence of the rivers Aare, Reuss and Limmat, the Roman occupiers of Helvetia once built the only legionary camp in Switzerland. On Windisch's Legionary Trail, fragments of the soldier's life can be traced.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
24.06.2011
Members of the Reenactor Group Mosby's Gray Ghosts, from the 43rd Battalion of the Virgina Cavalry, a southern partisan group during the American Civil War, fill their authentic bottles with Ice Tea from the discounter.
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Switzerland, Interlaken
02.07.2005
Also with Colt you have to pay entrance fee at the Countryfestival Interlaken.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
25.06.2011
The legendary chieftain Angy Burri from Lucerne drinks Cola Zero from the bottle in full feather ornament.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
25.06.2011
For more than ten years a member of the Cheyenne tribe: Silvia and Reiner Deufel from Karlsruhe.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
25.06.2011
Wide skirts, delicate frills and lots of hairspray on the curly head. The Beautys in their original farmer dresses get styled for the History Show.
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Switzerland, Walterswil
17.10.2010
Autumn camp of the Legio XI association. A reconnaissance team with Optio explores the area.
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Switzerland, Meierskappel
25.06.2011
The facades are only a backdrop - what is common practice among the professionals in Hollywood works also in the wild heart of Switzerland.
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Switzerland, Interlaken
01.07.2005
Beer in the marquee instead of whiskey in the saloon and yet everything is authentic.
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Reenactors - Out of everyday life
More and more people are looking for a different identity in their free time. They act with like-minded fellows as cowboys, Indians, Romans or pile dwellers. They call themselves reenctors or authenticators. They are longing to return to the Middle Ages or to the Celts. Those who do not yet participate visit medieval markets and other occasions.
