![]() ![]() ![]() And it's also a term that changes over time, just as we change and our society changes. ![]() The goal of the book wasn't to provide easy answers or to understand what being German means, but more an attempt to better understand the German war experience.Īnd even after the whole process of writing the book, I can't really say that I know what the term Heimat means to me personally, partly because I've been living abroad for all in all 20 years. I don't think I have a clear definition of the word Heimat yet. ![]() But did you also come up with an easy way to define the term in interviews? Your graphic memoir offers a complex, very poetic interpretation of the concept of Heimat. I believe it should be possible to both look critically at our past and express love for our country The book is both a quest to find out what it means to be German and it's also a commitment to Germany - in a positive sense. That's exactly why we decided to call the book "Heimat," because we felt that we needed to claim the term back from the extreme right. Edgar Reitz, the director of a series of films in the 1980s called "Heimat," told DW in an interview that he wouldn't have called his project that way today he finds the term to difficult to defend. "Heimat" is a loaded German term it was misappropriated by the Nazis and more recently by the far right. ![]()
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