Summer-Dream-Prelude to Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt interpreted Franz Kafka's parable “He” three times. At the end of September 1967, she sent a copy to Martin Heidegger, and at the end of 1949, she expressly sent Karl Jaspers the volume of Max Brod's edition containing the parables. She herself wrote four parables from the early 1940s that imitate Kafka's style. At the center of the analysis of the aforementioned interpretations and contexts is a term that plays no role in the literature on Arendt: Biography!

Thomas Meyer received his doctorate from LMU Munich, where he also habilitated. After numerous positions in Germany and abroad, Meyer teaches philosophy in Munich. His research and publications focus on the 20th century. He has edited several of Hannah Arendt's writings, including “Wir Flüchtlinge” (2015) and “Die Freiheit, frei zu sein” (2018). In 2023 he published a completely new biography of Hannah Arendt, Piper Verlag.