Concept and Discourse of “Heimat”

Abstract

The article describes the contemporary state of the Heimat discourse in German culture. The era of globalization has triggered a new wave of interest in this subject, which has given rise to new ideas and accounts for new approaches to the concept Heimat. For a long time the notion, Heimat has been ideologically and politically connoted. Nowadays this notion is regarded as complex, ambiguous and hard to define. The talk focuses on its cultural aspect and the variety of its definitions.