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EXPLORING HEIMAT

Youth Council Dresden 2025 showing a dance performance
Youth Council Dresden 2025 dance performance

The opening event on thursday evening was dedicated to exploring the question of  What is HEIMAT? Participants were tasked to prepare a pecha kucha or a life presentation on ideas related to this question. 

Voices on Heimat

  • „Heimat … a place where one can feel secure and find ones identity again… where children can grow up safely.“
  • „Heimat is a place where my friends and family are, where I can love and be loved.“
  • „Heimat – How I think it should be created? By working together yet staying independent and by making Heimat safe for everyone.
  • „Where I see the dangers for the future? In youth marginalisation, unemployment, negative multiculturalism, moral decadence.“
  • „Heimat is my homeland. Heimat is something with defined rules and traditions that should be followed.“

Voices on the future of Heimat

  • „I want to live in a stable and safe country. With less unemployment, especially for young people“.  
  • „How can we protect Heimat? With relatively strict border control.“
  • „In the future I hope… kids and young people could trust the specialists more … adults would be more responsible.“
  • „What we want in our New Heimat? Safety, pride, welcome, equal opportunities. What we do not want in our New Heimat? Litter, knife crime, racism, division.“
  • „Heimat is where you feel safe. Where I can feel safe and myself without being insecure or being judged.“
  • „Heimat is the feeling of Geborgenheit (belonging) and arriving somewhere.“
  • „Heimat is a state of being at peace with yourself.“