Citizens' Campus: The purpose of politics is freedom. Hannah Arendt—a thinker without compromise

The lecture focuses on the courageous thoughts and actions of the Jewish German-American philosopher Hanna Arendt (1906 - 1975). Her work on co-responsibility and a new cultural self-awareness influenced thinking in the 20th century.century. The breadth of her oeuvre and the wide range of offers for discursive thinking are traced in key essays.

Before emigrating to the USA in 1933, she had largely completed her extensive studies on Rahel Varnhagen. In her new home, she succeeded in establishing herself as an author, journalist and philosopher. Her Jewish background was the basis of her identity and is an essential foundation of her statements against all forms of totalitarianism.

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Ilse Nagelschmidt held the professorship for Modern German Literature at the University of Leipzig until her retirement in 2020, with a research focus on GDR literature and German-German literature after 1989. She is Honorary President of the Free German Authors' Association and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad with her excellent lectures even after her retirement.

Admission: 5 Euro