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Acting History across Media: Margarete von Trotta's "Hannah Arendt"

Margarete von Trotta's film "Hannah Arendt", dealing mainly with the episode of the philosopher's life which produced her famous "Eichmann in Jerusalem", renewed controversies surrounding the initial reception of this report. In contrast to the criticisms of the film which insisted on its referential aspect - the "truth" of von Trotta's biographical rendition, of Hannah Arendt's interpretation of Eichmann's moral responsibility, as well as the moral responsibility of Jewish representatives for death in concentration camps - this contribution discusses the impact of the film in terms of three intertextual frames of reference: the current cinematic appetite for "playing for real", especially for playing prominent middle age female public figures ; second, Arendt's own ideas on acting, conceived in its double, political and theatrical sense, as well as onn vita contemplativa vs vita activa dichotomy, given the difficulty of artistically enacting "the life of the mind" ; third, the way Margarete von Trotta inscribes her film into the tradition of iconographic representations of "the woman of ideas", insisting not so much on Hannah Arendt's own feminist allegiances, but on feminist implications of her acting on the public stage.

acting ; transmediality ; Hannah Arendt ; Margarete von Trotta

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