Drama

Who only wants to be a guest?
In German language

"We all want to be guests"? Being a guest and hospitality are considered one of 200 universals - every culture has certain things in common, according to the idea with which the Schiller Festival 2025 is approaching its motto "when people are just people". Current debates about migration and the shortage of skilled workers, as well as a look at the history of the so-called "guest workers", show the actual state of this hospitality in Germany. As a guest, you have to adapt to the rules of your host and not take up the right to hospitality for too long. Guests are dependent on hospitality. Citizenship, uncertain residence permits and nationalism make some of them "permanent" and some even "uninvited guests". For all our friendship - who wants to be just a guest? Don't we all want to belong unchallenged and have a say in what it means when, according to Schiller, "people are just people"? In the Schiller Days special of our successful series "The Haymat Ministry", we talk about these questions with Ebru Düzgün, alias Ebow, who raps about solidarity, anti-racism and lesbian love and is simultaneously tired of detached, left-wing discourses. With: Ebow has long since established herself as one of the most important voices in German rap with four albums to her name and has also delivered the odd anthem for the naturally political among the millennials and Gen Zs. "She writes politically correct and grammatically incorrect lyrics about contempt for women in her scene and contempt for foreigners in her country", as the ZEIT once put it. On her album "FC CHAYA", released on September 27, she focuses entirely on the LGBTQIA+ community and delivers queer love songs that have never been heard before in Germany. In turbulent times, she wants to tell us that no message is more important than love itself. Moderated by: Emilene Wopana Mudimu is an educational consultant, moderator, spoken word artist and author from Aachen. She runs the youth and media center KingzCorner, where she has been initiating hip-hop related art and media education offers/projects since 2013. Emilene Wopana Mudimu has been active in racism-critical and discrimination-sensitive work since 2012. Her work focuses on: Afro Hair Politics, politicization of Black bodies, colorism, empowerment work with BI*PoC, intersectional educational work and feminist alliances. Mudimu is one of 20 co-authors of the anthology "Schwarz wird großgeschrieben" (&Töchter Verlag) and one of four curators of the anthology "Neue Töchter Afrikas" (Unrast Verlag). She can also be seen as a protagonist in the documentary "Feminism WTF" by Katharina Mückstein.