Abstract
The Performance Research issue devoted to ‘Departures’ appeared as the first in the sixth year of publication in 2001. In this essay I return to the theme of the issue around ‘the migrations of people’ and ‘writing around differing geographies and histories of travel’ especially responding to Nicolas Whybrow’s piece ‘Leaving Berlin’ as a point of departure for writing about migrations connecting with my family history to try to explore the topic of departure through the prism of family memory and the efforts others have made to leave Berlin in times when leaving wasn’t an option for most people, especially the famous case of Heiner Müller. I think about Tegel airport as a site of departure and also try to connect my memories with the larger context of forced migration (it is only a thread but it needs to be followed) and try to draw some illogical conclusions about the logics of departure and how difficult it is to capture the moment of departure.
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