Simone Dede Ayivi & Kompliz*innen: Hä?!

The situation is not unexpected and yet remains incomprehensible. Yet we have always tried so hard to understand everything and make ourselves understood. We have expanded our multilingualism or – for the sake of better understanding – we have shed it. We have studied your books and have eaten white asparagus with you. And we told you about our grandparents’ fig trees.

We have written books and climbed stages. We have become migration researchers and diversity agents. And now we stand here and are speechless. Perhaps we have run out of words. While translating in the Afroshop and at the immigration office. Maybe your words simply became too empty for us. Like the promises we made to ourselves. And now we ask ourselves: Was it a misunderstanding, a translation error or did we talk past each other from the start?


Hä?! is an evening about understanding and misunderstanding in the migration society and the question of how we do not lose all the achievements of recent years despite the shift to the extreme right. We dare to take a self-critical look at our concepts of diversity, while at the same time doing everything we can to remain many and become even more. Above all, we should come to an understanding about how we got here, what actually happened and who this “we” we keep talking about actually is. There is a lot to clarify. Before we lose our tongue or they shut us up.