jats:titleABSTRACT</jats:title>jats:pThis essay will explore Erika Mann's relationship to her Munich, Bavarian, and German Heimat in the context of her experience of political resistance and exile in the final years of the Weimar Republic. Drawing on her letters, journalistic writings, and the texts of her political cabaret, ‘Die Pfeffermühle’, the paper will argue that her experience of travel, political repression, and exile led her to reinterpret the conventional and gendered Heimat discourse of her youth as a progressive and increasingly gender‐neutral phenomenon which could be mobilised by women in opposition to the chauvinistic nationalism of the Third Reich.</jats:p>