Hannah Arendt Center Presents

Hannah Arendt Facing Tyranny

Take a closer look at one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. Learn more at https://www.jeffbieberproductions.com/hannaharendt

Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt’s time as a political prisoner, refugee and survivor in Europe informed her groundbreaking insights into the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism.

Her major works, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), On Revolution (1963) and Crises of the Republic (1972) remain among the most important and most-read treatises on the development and impact of totalitarianism and the fault lines in American democracy. Arendt’s reports on the trial of Adolph Eichmann also caused a firestorm of controversy, and its impact is still felt today.

American Masters – Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny, premieres nationwide Friday, June 27 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS App.  

The documentary is anchored in Hannah Arendt’s life experience, including her resistance against the Nazi regime, working to help Jewish children escape to Palestine, her relationship with the esteemed philosopher and Nazi Martin Heidegger and her time in a prisoner of war camp before fleeing to the United States.

Actress Nina Hoss (Barbara, Phoenix, A Most Wanted Man, The White Masai, Homeland, Tár), provides the voice of Hannah Arendt as a student in Germany to the 1970s. She and others bring to life revealing correspondence Arendt had on both sides of the Atlantic, with such 20th century luminaries as writer Mary McCarthy to philosopher Hans Jonas.

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Time: 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Online Event

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