In confidence

Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy meet in 1945 in a bar in Manhattan, become friends, and exchange letters for over twenty-five years: documents of unbreakable trust, as well as an unprecedented open dialogue between two intelligent women who spoke candidly and without prejudice about everything that moved them: politics, morality, their books, their men. Here, Judaism and Catholicism intersect, European education and America's political culture meet, and German university tradition encounters upper-class college education. Additionally, two women come together who appreciate the irreverence of a clear-eyed perspective and open speech in each other. Katharina Thalbach reads the letters of Hannah Arendt, while Sandra Quadflieg lends her voice to Mary McCarthy (2 CDs, duration: approx. 2h 30).