Die Angst vor dem Fremden

The “fear of the foreign” is a phenomenon which seems to divide the European Union, which is not an individual phenomenon, but one of the societies. This article discusses possible methods how to deal with this fear through multicultural music education. The short “history” of mul-ticultural music education in Germany from 1983 up to 2020 shows how this problem was addressed there. The author has developed a method of dramatic interpretation of music, which is suitable for dealing with fear without mentioning the topics “fear” and “the foreign”, but playing the cultural background of different kinds of music which are familiar to migrants and refugees living in Europe.