Summer-Dream-Prelude to Hannah Arendt

Actress Sonja Beißwenger and actor Philippe Goos read various passages from the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.

When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his serious young student. What happened between them then will never be known, but both were to cherish their brief intimacy for the rest of their lives. This reading with Sonja Beißwenger and Philippe Goos of a selection of illuminating and tender correspondence offers an insight into the inner lives of two important philosophers. Here the public spotlight is cast on two outstanding personalities in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. The reason for not withholding intimacy from the public was the heirs' awareness that such a denial would open the door to a wealth of invention, sensationalism and dilettantism. In an age that is particularly attracted to anything that remains "secret", an age that robs secrets of their character by replacing them with banal everyday fantasies, such mechanisms can best be countered if the documented "reality" is not concealed.

Sonja Beißwenger, born October 6, 1980 in Heilbronn, is a German actress and radio presenter. Trained as an actress at the Hanover University of Music and Drama from 2001 to 2004. From 2004/05 to 2008, she was a permanent member of the ensemble at Schauspielhaus Hannover, where she returned as a guest in 2015/2016. From 2009/2010 to 2015, she was a member of the ensemble at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. Since 2015, she has worked freelance with engagements at the Salzburg Festival, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Nibelungenfestspiele Worms and Berliner Ensemble. She also teaches acting as a lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and works as a radio presenter in a variety of ways. She was awarded the Erich Ponto Prize in 2013.

Philipp Goos, *1980 in Kiel. From 1995 to 2003, extra and supporting actor at the Kiel Opera and Schauspielhaus. Then studied acting at the Hanover University of Music and Drama. Since the 2006/07 season he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at Schauspiel Hannover. Several works were created together with Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, such as the production of Edda, which was awarded the German Theater Prize DER FAUST. Philippe Goos is also a founding member of the independent group Kulturfiliale, which has been staging productions in Hanover and elsewhere since 2006. In 2011, he was awarded the "Weiter so!" prize by the Gesellschaft der Freunde des hannoverschen Schauspielhauses e.V. (GFS).