haamit heimaten
A festival celebrating home, homelands and haamit from a Saxon perspective
Searching for, finding, making a home - how do we make a home? Chemnitz 2025 organised the haamit heimaten festival as a member of the heimaten network, initiated by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. The main projects, European Workshop for Culture and Democracy and Living Neighbourhood, brought together a wide range of positions on the understanding of home in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region. Saxony was and is home for many. The term "haamit", the Saxon variant of "Heimat", meets the actively conceived verb "heimaten". The programme invited visitors to search for traces in allotment gardens and neighbourhoods, to engage in dialogue with each other and presented performances, poetry and music.
haamit heimaten was part of the decentralised heimaten festival from September to December 2025, organised by Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. Numerous partner institutions in the German-speaking world took part in the festival to highlight plural democracy. The starting point was that a home is understood as a process of creation by many. The programme understood heimaten as a verb, as home is something that is actively shaped and constantly recreated in the moment of creation. Heimaten is in the plural, as in Germany people in loose associations and institutions, initiatives and clubs shape what is currently referred to as German society and culture.
When: 17 to 21 September 2025
Where? Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region
Chemnitz 2025 is part of the heimaten network and participates through its main projects Living Neighbourhood and European Workshop for Democracy. The heimaten network is an initiative of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW ) as part of heimaten. heimaten is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.
