What is also deeply impressive is the quality in which she can express her thoughts. She talks like an open book: complete mastery of thought and language altogether, perfect balance. Means and goals have really developped side by side: up to such level…

Impressive.  Compare the quality of questions and her answers to what we routinely see today.

I cannot have enough of this face, of this voice. I feel endless love for this lady. Her German is gorgeous and I am so glad I learned it enough to understand.

I think I could learn German by just listening to her

somehow deep talks seems cooler in german, especially with smoking..

For reasons that baffle me I find Hannah Arendt fascinating. Her intellectual work is way above my total comprehension, but again her life and times leave me in awe.

This is why I love YouTube.

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"Wenn ich arbeite, dann bin ich an Wirkung nicht interessiert"
"Wenn die Arbeit fertig ist?"
"Tja, dann bin ich damit fertig."

People like her have always been rare.

I needed to hear Hannah Arendt's wisdom to help me find my bearings during what seems to be a dangerous time in my country. I only hope I can summon the courage to stand firmly for compassion and humanity and resist the dark forces of hatred.

she strikes with the modesty and simplicity, i expected her to be difficult to listen to, her sentences are the opposite of "complicated", her reasoning is right on the head. To the contrary, it's the interviewer whose questions are complicated and they arise from a  complex pairing and matching of facts from Arendt life, which then Arendt demystifies with her smile and wisdom

You're about to spend a splendid hour with one of the 20th Century's seminal thinkers. Thanks "Stack Altoids" for uploading this treasure.

thank you this was my first exposure to Arendt. And she is one of those  rare people that when interviewed you hang on every word.

In addition to how brilliantly she speaks, observe how intently she listens.  She focuses on the interviewer and hears what he is saying, then responds.  She had so much to say but was perfectly willing to hear what the other person had to say.

Thanks for the video! There is, however, at least 15 minutes of the interview missing. Cheers!

I’m glad for this posting, but why is so much of the translation missing from the captions?

At 4:29-4:39 (subtitle gap) she is saying: "My opinion has always been that there are some professions that are not appropriate for women, that do not suit them, if you will."

Habe nie die Mutter Schprache vergessen.Grosse Frau.

If quality had a face, it would be this video.

A deeply affecting, revealing interview of a human being's struggle to understand everything possible about her own existence and its meaning to the rest of the world. Her description of her feelings of joy upon hearing German spoken after the war and yet the alienation this made her aware of is beyond tears.  And this in some aspects she clearly implies is all our fates. " Gem"utlich zu sein" lovely as it is, can only be a form of comforting illusion.

This is the best interview I have seen or heard with Hannah Arendt. I learned much from it and came to understand her better through it. Her opening disclaimer of her not being a philosopher but rather a political thinker set the tone for what followed. She spoke it seemed to me in an honest forthright way about her childhood, her early education, her youth, her reaction as a Jew to the anti- Semitism she faced from childhood, her reaction and action at the Nazis rise to power, her understanding of her identity as a Jew, her relation to Germany and feeling herself above all connected to its language but not to its sense of peoplehood, her work with Youth Aliyah and involvement in 'action' in the world, her quest for understanding as the keynote of her work, her shock at coming to know in 1943 of the death -camps, the central importance of 'friendship' in her life and work, and much else. For me it was of enormous interest to see how she appeared and acted as a person. I have read almost all of her work and have greatly admired most of it.It is unfortunate that the work she is most famous and infamous for insulted and caused more anguish to those I am sure she did not intend to cause anguish to, the survivors of the most monstrous crime in human history. Her visible discomfort at responding to a question about this in this interview also was revealing about one whose sin seemed to be emotional detachment from the victims. Having heard her once many years ago and not really seeing her or hearing her close up I greatly appreciated this interview.