Who owns Germany?
On the weekend of 13 to 15 September, heimaten opens at Haus der Kulturen der Welt with, among other things, the exhibition Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld, a concert by BSMG, a congress on the question ‘Who owns Germany?’ and the discursive-literary heimaten Summer Jam, where writers, musicians, designers, DJs, chefs and academics come together.
According to Article 20, Paragraph 2 of the German Basic Law, all state power emanates from the people. Some things can be said with certainty about this people: almost 30 per cent have a history of migration, people desire different things, have different political opinions, belong to different religious communities, are of different ages and have different amounts of income and property.
But this also means that all state power emanates from a pluralistic society. The heimaten project of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) addresses this reality.
It understands heimaten as a verb - to heimaten - because home is something that we actively shape and that is constantly recreated in the moment of shaping. But also heimaten as a plural noun, because Germany is a place of plurality.
The project defines the concept of heimaten and launches a four-year, Germany-wide cultural programme.
- heimaten is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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Dates
September 2024
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