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Pearl Diving: Writing History after the Break of Tradition

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a lecture by Susanne Lüdemann, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, on "Pearl Diving. Writing History after the Break of Tradition". The Pearl Diver is the title of the third part of Hannah Arendt's essay on Walter Benjamin, published in 1968. In this essay, Arendt uses the metaphor…

Hannah Arendt

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

As part of the "CALA Spring 2017 Foreign Film Series—A View From A Broad," the NYU Center for Applied Liberal Arts and Deutsches Haus at NYU present Margarethe von Trotta's acclaimed biographical drama "Hannah Arendt," a portrait of the political theorist and influential thinker during her controversial coverage of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial at Nuremberg for The New Yorker.  Pam Katz, who wrote the film's screenplay, will…