Monday, June 25, 2007

Hannah Arendt Strasse, Berlin












Hannah-Arendt-Strasse, Berlin: a square in a city carrying the freight of a national trauma. Materiality and memory combine: concrete, insecurity, reconstruction, undulating paths, uneven terrain, fractured souls, and burial grounds. Hannah Arendt, philosopher of totalitarianism, and interpreter of Eichmann's banality, watches over the resting place of the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe.