Starting in February, I will take on a new role as Head of the National Waterfront Museum in Wales. That's a good time also to reflect on five years in adult education, in a small town in my Swabian Heimat.
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Personal reflections on home, heritage and Heimat
Just over a year ago, I moved back to the south of Germany, and specifically the Swabian Alps, where I was born and grew up. One unexpected aspect of this has been my awareness of the landscape and culture here, and their impact on my experience of home, heritage and Heimat. Home I haven’t lived … Continue reading Personal reflections on home, heritage and Heimat
Good-bye Britain, Hello Germany, or: On the notion of ‘home’
I have left Britain and relocated to my native Germany. Most Brits nodded knowingly when I told them I was going back to Germany, telling me that ‘Of course, you want to go home’. And in many ways I have indeed ‘gone home’. But in nearly as many other ways, I have also lost my … Continue reading Good-bye Britain, Hello Germany, or: On the notion of ‘home’
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