Hannah Arendt writes a fairy tale. Hannah Arendt? A fairy tale? The famous Hannah Arendt, the chain-smoking thinker, the astute political theorist?

We were surprised. And moved.

Together with the fairy tale’s main character, a girl tending geese, we embark on a journey of discovery through Hannah Arendt’s world. We meet her at her desk and find anecdotes from her life there. Poems, letters, and quotes flutter through the room.

In this play, we attempt to explore 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? We 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.

Notes on accessibility: Information about the accessibility of the venue in structural terms can be found here.