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Mar 2022
51m 21s

Memory: Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock

GOETHE-INSTITUT
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Berlin artist-duo Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock talk with Samantha Rose Hill about the work of memory, Holocaust memorials in Berlin, and Walter Benjamin. “Hannah Arendt: Between Worlds” is a coproduction of the Goethe-Institut and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. This podcast is part of “Hannah Arendt: Thinking is Dangerous,” a project for thinking with Hannah Arendt about our world today.

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