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Berlin, Germany.  As part of the centennial of Basque musical recordings from 1913 by ethnologist Rudolf Trebitsch, the Euskal Etxea in Berlin organized a conference on the theme on May 27.  Also in attendance was translator-researcher Inaxio Lopez de Arana who has done an exhaustive study on the topic.  The event was attended by members of Berlin’s Euskal Etxea as well as other interested persons.

The next day, May 28, Lopez de Arana gave another talk at the University of Leipzig, invited byt the Basque lecturer there, supported by the Etxepare Basque Institute.  In this case, the talk was simultaneously translated into Spanish, English, French and German.  In addition to students studying Basque Studies, there were others with majors in history and anthropology.

[In the middle, Inaxio Lopez de Arana with Basque lecturer at the Univeristy of Leipzig Unai Lauzirika, Berlin Basque Club president Ainhoa Añorga and others following the talk (photo BerlinEE)]

Musical recordings done by Trebitsch can be found in Germany and the Euskal Etxea in Berlin along with the Etxepare Basque Institute wanted to commemorate the centennial by organizing the aforementioned conference inviting Inaxio Lopez de Arana, author of research in this field.