In Bonn this September, a concert hall silent for nine years reopened its doors, and with it, a city reclaimed something it had quietly mourned. The Beethovenfest used the occasion not merely to restore a building but to ask what it means to belong — to a place, to a tradition, to one another — gathering musicians from Georgia, Senegal, Syria, and beyond under the theme of 'Home/At Home.' In the shadow of Beethoven's 200th death anniversary, the festival posed a quiet but insistent question: not who owns a cultural inheritance, but who is invited to continue it.