Heimatklänge was a Berlin world music festival that took place every summer between 1988 and 2006. It began in 1988 as part of the European Capital of Culture program . The venues from 1988 to 2002 were the respective locations of the Tempodrom , and from 2003 to 2006 the Kulturforum Berlin .

The name of the festival was probably intended to play on the word ” homeland “, which does not necessarily have positive connotations in Germany , and to provoke. Starting with a Southeast European-Maghreb-Middle Eastern “all-round” event in 1988, the festival dedicated its mottos to the different geographical and musical regions from 1989 onwards. In 1988, each artist played on one evening and admission was free.