Zur Person: Hannah Arendt

In the organizer's words:

In 1964, Hannah Arendt gave the young journalist Günter Gaus an interview that has since become legendary. Arendt confronts her gentle counterpart with the merciless precision of her intellectuality. Again and again she refers to the shock of 1943, when she, now in exile in the USA, learned of the "fabrication of corpses" (Arendt) in Auschwitz. A shock that gave rise to her political theory of comprehension: "Comprehension means facing and confronting reality, whatever it is or was, attentively and impartially." This is a confrontation that threatens to become increasingly difficult in 2025. Not only because the will to take a closer look is dwindling, but simply because 80 years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of reality, which is always also the past, is fading. In this re-enactment, Julia Wieninger brings the great Hannah Arendt to life for one evening.

With: Julia Wieninger and Michael Weber

Concept: Julia Wieninger and Martin Györffy

Stage: Julia Oschatz

Costumes: Jana Sophia Schweers

Lighting: Björn Salzer

Dramaturgy: Martin Györffy

Further information: About the person: Hannah Arendt | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg