Postheimat : Inquiries into Migration, Theatre, and Networked Solidarity

Over the last decade, the role of diversity, migration, and representation in the German cultural sector has drastically changed. The PostHeimat network ― a three-year experiment in networked solidarity between major German public theatres, migrant actors, directors, and researchers ― grappled with how to think about home after migration. The contributions to this book document the problems and potentials of reflexive and research-based migrant theatre initiatives. Emerging from research encounters and performances across Germany, this study incorporates the critical perspectives of activists, artists, practitioners, scholars, and cultural mediators from these initiatives and does not shy away from an open reflection on the failures and pitfalls of well-intended cultural policies.

Jonas Tinius is a socio-cultural anthropologist and associate member at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is currently a scientific coordinator and postdoctoral researcher in cultural anthropology in the ERC project Minor Universality: Narrative World Constructions After Western Universalism. Together with Ruba Totah, he was the director of the research section of the »PostHeimat Network«.

Ruba Totah is an anthropologist at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Her research interests are writing cover cultural activism, transnationalism and gender across Palestine, the Arab area, and Europe. Her PhD focuses on »Cultural Transnationalism and The Arab Uprisings: Migrating Artists from Syria to Europe.« Together with Jonas Tinius, she was the director of the research section of the »PostHeimat Network«.