Heimat | Denktheater

In the organizer's words:

Home is associated with longing.

However, the term can also refer to a burdening heaviness that one has left behind or wants to give up. Home is something remembered, so it is connected to the past, which has an impact on the present experience of life. Home is not "out there" or "over there", but an image of images that the consciousness (intellect and emotion) constructs in order to provide orientation and possibly security.

Home is tied to childhood patterns that shape the whole of life and predetermine new experiences. The longing consists of the search for security. This happens by imagining the "good old days" in a "place of home", which - due to ever new fragments and fracture lines that are linked - result in a fantasized idyll. Home is always also a fantasy that becomes concrete in the colors, sounds and smells of memories.

Heimat is conservative in that it makes what is considered valid the standard; Heimat is also progressive in that it configures standards for what is to come and thus obliges us to act in the present. Heimat can become reactionary if the images of what is desirable, frozen as it were, do not inspire new beginnings and exclude the other/the other. Heimat can become revolutionary if the flow of time is reshaped by images of the utopian and opens up scope for action. The images and sounds of home are thus a suspension in the sense of Hegel's dialectic: preservation and overcoming. Heimat becomes an inner good, a guiding star of belonging, familiarity and acceptance. Home is neither spatially nor temporally closed. Home is a task, it is where I am allowed to shape my dreams and live them out a little, in an appropriate balance of what I perceive as my own and what makes me curious as a stranger - home is therefore the never-ending process of integration.

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Artistic performance under the direction of Carmen V. Hanke

Lecture "Heimat - Is never unfashionable!" with Harmut Schiller, humanities scholar, director of the Akademie am Meer, Sylt.

Concept, moderation: Prof. Dr. Michael von Brück, religious scholar at the LMU Munich, Zen and yoga teacher.

Price information:

SALON Discourse: free of charge + € 3.90 | Box Office € 5.00 SALON Musique: € 16 + € 3.90 | Box Office € 28.00 SALON Menu: € 44 + € 4.90 SALON Etagère: € 26 + € 3.90 Furthermore, we allow students and children under 16 years to buy discounted tickets with proof.