On Wednesday, 17 September 2025, the haamit heimaten festival opened with the panel discussion "haamit - Heimat - heimaten": polyphonic perspectives on and from Eastern Germany. The central questions of the event were: What doeshomemean today - and who is allowed to belong? And how can East Germany finally be told in a more diverse way - beyond the image of an exclusively "white" East?the filmmaker Claudia Tuyết Scheffel and Lydia Lierke from the Offener Prozess - Documentation Centre on the NSU Complex spoke on the panel. The evening was moderated by author and publicist Max Czollek, who is also a co-initiator of the decentralisedheimaten festival.
This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.