I come from a small town in West Germany. Where I grew up, people stay in the same
place they were born and raised; around their mid-twenties, they meet someone, get
married and have kids. If you ask them what home is, they will answer to you, it is the
family, the house, the city they come from.
But then home is something else for other people—those who do not feel meaningfully
connected to the place they were born.
In considering what “home” means for myself, what a liberating place is, where I can
reinvent myself and become the onewho I have always wanted to be, I came to the
profound consideration of what “home” may be for others.
In SAUDADE, I portrayed different people from different backgrounds —there were
those who left their land by choice and those fled by force. I asked them to write down
what their sense of belonging is.
