»I stood on the coast and spoke with the surf BLABLA at my back the ruins of Europe.«
Heiner Müller

Falling barriers, people trapped and hemmed in by fences, crumbling institutions or an economically flourishing, democratic state, comprising of unity, diversity and peace. These are the two differing stories of Europe. Europe is in many ways a hybrid, a tense mixture of contradictions. How is this played out? How should we respond to outbreaks of xenophobia and nationalistic self-assertion? Is the search for a European cultural identity the correct path to follow or a trap that makes us question only the boundaries?