Home begins where borders dissolve.
Home In Between –
tracing home and belonging through music.
Ragna sings songs of home in 13 languages — from a Ukrainian song about losing one’s home, a hit since the war began that means something very different today than it did in 2019, to Schumann’s “In der Fremde”, where home itself has turned into a foreign place.
Alongside them: a Sephardic song in Ladino about losing family and shelter, a Russian song about a home that only ever existed in memory, Renaud, Theodorakis, a ballad from the Hebrides. Songs everyone back home knows by heart — and hardly anyone here has ever heard.
Together with Thomas Holzhausen and Berit Jung, Ragna reimagines these songs in entirely new arrangements somewhere between folk, jazz, and experimental music — double bass, guitar, voice.
Between the songs, Ragna shares the stories of the people behind them — their rituals, their ruptures — finding the light moments along with the heavy ones. It all builds into a single dramatic arc, with a surprising twist at the end of the evening.
Home — or what German calls Heimat — is a concept caught between longing, hope, and hatred. Where does my Heimat end, and where does yours begin? Heimat is an idea, a feeling, forever in flux. Which is why Heimat should always be plural. Heimaten.
The theme found me.
The GVL supported my research into songs about home. While I was still in the middle of that work, my landlord gave me notice — he was reclaiming the apartment for himself. As a freelance musician in Berlin, I had no chance of finding a new one. For a long time I lived with the fear of ending up on the street. Sleepless nights and panic became my constant companions.
Until one day I made a decision of my own: to live without an apartment altogether. It came as a relief. I could breathe again, laugh again. For the past three years, I’ve been living between Chania, Berlin, Cologne, and France.
Home In Between grew out of that experience — and out of an experience shared by so many around the world: losing one’s home, being uprooted, longing to arrive.
Sealsong
A ballad from the Hebrides
Granita-n Ranita
Álfanir
Città Vecchia
Fabrizio de André
Djelem Djelem
Εδώ το φως (Edo to Fos)
Mikis Theodorakis / Yannis Ritsos
Ностальгия (Nostalgia)
Eldar Rjasanow
У мене немає дому (Umene nemaje Domu)
Odyn w Kanoe
Ragna
Voice · Performance
Thomas Holzhausen
Guitar · Sounds
Berit Jung
Double Bass
Mikis Theodorakis, Fabrizio de André, Eldar Ryazanov, Schumann/Eichendorff, Renaud, Ada Milea, as well as traditional songs of the Sephardic Jews and the Hebrides.
“What a fantastic concert. Above all the combination of the wonderful musicians and Ragna’s singing, her performance and presence. Deeply moving.”
“The songs touched me deeply, and I often had to cry — even though I didn’t know any of them and the languages were foreign to me.”
“I loved the artistic concept because it was so current and political — always implicitly. Today’s global crises and wars, hardship and displacement, were present in the choice of songs, and that made me think.”
„Delightful performance in multiple languages – unique + beautiful. Thank you very much."
M. · NY, USA“Thank you for this charming evening. For this variety of songs in so many different languages – wonderfully arranged.”
Home In Between is a natural fit for intercultural weeks, Europe weeks, democracy festivals, events hosted by foundations, academies, and church communities, sociocultural centers, festivals — and works just as well in living rooms as under the open sky.
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