Series of talks about Heimat
Is this still|already my country?
Concept: Under the title »Is this still|already my country?«, PEN Berlin is organising a series of talks in February/March: 41 events across Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, from Konstanz to Koblenz. In August/September, the second part of the series will follow in Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin, as was the case with our widely noted event series in the run-up to the state elections in late summer 2024 in Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg, and as with our public gathering in September in Klütz, the audience is explicitly invited to take part in the discussion. MORE
Videos/Audio recordings from ongoing events in Rhineland-Palatinate you can find here, from past in Baden-Wuerttemberg her. The audios are also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. All only in German.
Locations and participants in Baden-Württemberg
Locations and participants in Rhineland-Palatinate
Videos: Marie Eisenmann
Press coverage: all media reports and interviews relating to the series
Rhineland-Palatinate, let’s Talk About Heimat
Ahrweiler, let’s talk about Heimat: »Talking about Heimat is a symptom of a crisis«
8 March | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler | Alvitha | In cooperation with Stiftung Ahrtal | Nick Falkner (Bundeswehr officer, Managing Director of Stiftung Ahrtal) & Nils Kumkar (sociologist); Host: Celina de Cuveland (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Trier, let’s talk about Heimat: »Those in power like to talk about Heimat«
7 March | Trier | Karl-Marx-Haus | Dinçer Güçyeter (writer, publisher) & Claudia Ritzi (political scientist); Host: Thomas Roth (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Prüm, let’s talk about Heimat: »Today’s society is the best our country has ever seen«
6 March | Prüm | Konvikt − Haus der Kultur | In cooperation with Kulturfreunde Prüm e.V. | Arno Frank (journalist, writer) & Jürgen Wiebicke (journalist, philosopher); Host: Dagmar Dettmer (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Wittlich, let’s talk about Heimat: »We have 60 bankruptcies every day«
5 March | Stadtbücherei Wittlich | Ole Liebl (influencer, author) & Franziskus Wendels (painter); Moderation: Katharina de Mos (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Bernkastel-Kues, let’s talk about Heimat: »For many, Germany was a Shire«
4 March | Bernkastel-Kues | Museum Cusanus-Geburtshaus | Lena Endesfelder (winegrower, former Wine Queen) & Stephan Grünewald (psychologist, opinion researcher); Host: Christoph Schmitz (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Wissen, let’s talk about Heimat: »I wish others had a word for Heimat, too«
3 March | Kulturwerk Wissen | Yannic Han Biao Federer (writer) & Andreas Rödder (historian); Host: Sabrina Hoffmann (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Diez, let’s talk about Heimat: »We are just as strange as everyone else«
2 March | Diez | SoTheater im Autohaus S+R | Jürgen Kaube (journalist) & Ursula Krechel (writer); Host: Lars Hennemann (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Koblenz, let’s talk about Heimat: »As we get older, one becomes ›heimatless‹«
28 Feb | Theater Koblenz | Harald Martenstein (publicist) & Michael Roth (former Minister of State for Europe); Host: Katja Gloger (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
Ludwigshafen, let’s talk about Heimat: »There is no deeper Heimat than six feet under«
27 Feb | Ludwigshafen | Kulturzentrum dasHaus | Kristina Schröder (R21, former Federal Minister for Family Affairs) & Deniz Yücel (journalist, spokesperson of PEN Berlin); Host: Kara Ballarin (journalist) | More about the participants
Audio recording (complete)
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