Eighteen years after its first edition, globale° – Festival for Cross-Border Literature takes stock of the many years of discussion and development around the topics of migration, integration and multilingualism. Together with the three authors who took part in the festival’s first event, globale° looks back on the development of the topics from back then and asks whether and how their viewpoints have changed. New voices from contemporary discourses will also be invited to draw comparisons, enter into a dialog and discuss how a new form of transculturality and togetherness is possible in times of new demarcations and reactionary politics.