Hannah Arendt writes a fairy tale. Hannah Arendt? A fairy tale? The famous Hannah Arendt, the cigarette-smoking thinker, the astute political theorist? You were surprised. And moved.
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Together with the fairy tale’s main character—a girl tending geese—you embark on a journey of discovery through Hannah Arendt’s world. You meet her at her desk and discover anecdotes from her life there. Poems, letters, and quotes flutter through the room.
In this play, they attempt to engage with Arendt’s extensive body of work. The focus is on the formative experience of her immigration. Like the girl in the fairy tale, she was always forced to look ahead, to keep moving forward, and to keep searching.
What exactly is this feeling of rootlessness and homelessness, and how did Hannah Arendt cope with it? They seek to better understand her thinking and, together with her, explore what it might mean to be a “someone” in the world.
Questions that still resonate today are posed, revealing the theorist’s poetic side.
IN GERMAN
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Dates
September 2026
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