Heimat: Rhineland-Palatinate – Videos and Audios

Series of talks about Heimat
Is this still|already my country?

PEN Berlin Heimat — Audience and stage with Lucy Fricke, Marcel Reif, Mladen Gladić & Aron Boks (f.l.t.r.). Pirmasens, Forum Alte Post, 18.03.2026 | Photo: Martin Seebald

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 events in Rhineland-Palatinate you can find at this page, from in Baden-Wuerttemberg here. 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

Pirmasens, let’s talk about Heimat: »The Heimat will not remain the same«

Series of talks about Heimat Is this still|already my country?

Rhineland-Palatinate, let’s Talk About Heimat

Pirmasens, let’s talk about Heimat: »The Heimat will not remain the same«

Bad Kreuznach, let’s talk about Heimat: »No two generations share the same mother tongue«

Speyer, let’s talk about Heimat: »Heimat has to hurt«

Worms, let’s talk about Heimat: »Schools are Heimat machines«

Kaiserslautern, let’s talk about Heimat: »Annerschtwu is annerscht«

Landau, let’s talk about Heimat: »This element of shame is part of Germany«

Mainz, let’s talk about Heimat: »I am pushing the boundaries of what can be said«

Kusel, let’s talk about Heimat: »Heimaten – I really like the plural«

Idar-Oberstein, let’s talk about Heimat: »Even in the past, it was shitty here«

Morbach, let’s talk about Heimat: »Heimat lies in the future«

Ahrweiler, let’s talk about Heimat: »Talking about Heimat is a symptom of a crisis«

Trier, let’s talk about Heimat: »Those in power like to talk about Heimat«

Prüm, let’s talk about Heimat: »Today’s society is the best our country has ever seen«

Wittlich, let’s talk about Heimat: »We have 60 bankruptcies every day«

Bernkastel-Kues, let’s talk about Heimat: »For many, Germany was a Shire«

Wissen, let’s talk about Heimat: »I wish others had a word for Heimat, too«

Diez, let’s talk about Heimat: »We are just as strange as everyone else«

Koblenz, let’s talk about Heimat: »As we get older, one becomes ›heimatless‹«

Ludwigshafen, let’s talk about Heimat: »There is no deeper Heimat than six feet under«

Series of talks about Heimat
Is this still|already my country?

Ahrweiler, let’s talk about Heimat: **»Talking about Heimat is a symptom of a crisis«**

Trier, let’s talk about Heimat: **»Those in power like to talk about Heimat«**

Wissen, let’s talk about Heimat: **»I wish others had a word for Heimat, too«**