Hannah Arendt – La passagère

About the series

Hannah Arendt navigated the 20th century with the determination of a “conscious outcast”. Driven from Germany and seeking refuge in the United States, Hannah Arendt built her body of work across two continents, blending philosophy and poetry.
Throughout her life, Hannah Arendt retained an undiminished passion for understanding. With a cigarette in her hand or a Kafka aphorism in her mind, Hannah Arendt was always in dialogue—with herself and with others, both the living and the dead, whether they were philosophers like Socrates or Heidegger, poets like Rilke or Auden, or loyal friends like Rahel Varnhagen or Karl Jaspers. Considering herself neither German nor American, thinking and writing in both languages, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem is not only the originator of a new political thought but also of a new philosophical language. Between philosophy and poetry, Hannah Arendt built what she called “a house on the Atlantic”.
This Grande Traversée on Hannah Arendt, produced by Christine Lecerf, features friends of Hannah Arendt (Jerome Kohn, Leon Botstein), philosophers (Richard Bernstein, Etienne Tassin, Martine Leibovici), political scientists (Roger Berkowitz, Antonia Grunenberg), Germanists (Thomas Wild, Barbara Hahn), essayists (Marie Luise Knott, Karin Biro, a historian (Enzo Traverso) and artists (Margarethe Von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Volker März, Beatrice Fontanel, Lindsay Grime, Tania Brugera).
Thanks to Volker März, artist; Jerry Kohn and Jessica Reifer of the Hannah Arendt Blücher Literary Trust; Roger Berkowitz of the Hannah Arendt Center; Peter Stein of the Fred Stein Archives; Edna Brocke, Hannah Arendt’s niece; and Jeff Katz of the Hannah Arendt Blücher Library.