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Quel che sembriamo. Raccontare Hannah Arendt. Un omaggio al 4 dicembre 2025

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  • Hildegard E. Keller
Hildegard E. Keller
Universität Zürich, Switerland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/sd-19564

Published 2025-12-24

Keywords

  • novel,
  • empathy,
  • biographical fiction,
  • poetry,
  • Hannah Arendt,
  • Walter Benjamin,
  • Bertolt Brecht,
  • Adolf Eichmann,
  • USA,
  • Switzerland,
  • Ticino,
  • National Socialism,
  • evil,
  • teenagers, and young adults
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How to Cite

Keller, H. E. (2025). Quel che sembriamo. Raccontare Hannah Arendt. Un omaggio al 4 dicembre 2025. Storia Delle Donne, 21, 187–199. https://doi.org/10.36253/sd-19564

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Abstract

Hannah Arendt passed away on December 4, 1975. She is the protagonist of my biographical novel, What We Seem, which begins in the summer of 1975. Hannah Arendt spends one last vacation in Ticino. This ist he point of departure for the novel, which reveals different aspects of a stunningly multifaceted personality. Some aspects were well-known and publicly exposed, while others were kept hidden until the end of her life. The author of Eichmann in Jerusalem is accompanied by the little-known poet, and we encounter many other aspects of her work that are no longer seen today as the do not fit in the icon she has become. According to Arendts incisive warning, images can cover up reality. On the 50th anniversary of her death, I would like to honor her memory by narrating her in her last vacation in a small Italianspeaking village.

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