Since we can't leave our houses, I thought I'd make a short thread on some of the houses Hannah Arendt lived in.

Hannah Arendt was born in Linden, Hannover Germany on October 14, 1906. This was her first home, Lindener Marktplatz 2.

At the age of 3, Hannah Arendt's family moved to Königsberg so her father’s syphilis could be treated, and they could be near family. She spent most of her youth here, at Tiergartenstrasse 6.

After finishing her schooling in Berlin, Hannah Arendt moved to Marburg to study philosophy with Martin Heidegger. She lived in an attic apartment at Lutherstrasse 4, with her pet mouse.

After a semester with Edmond Husserl at the University of Leipzig, Hannah Arendt moved to Heidelberg to write her dissertation on Love and Saint Augustine with Karl Jaspers. She lived beneath the castle at Schlossberg 16.

Before Hannah Arendt was captured by the Gestapo in 1933 & forced to flee, she lived at Opitzstraße 6, Berlin-Steglitz with her 1st husband Günther Stern. This is where she wrote most of Rahel Varnhagen. The apartment was destroyed & this Gedenktafel marks an approximate location

After escaping the Gestapo in 1933, Hannah Arendt fled to Paris via Prague & Geneva. Since she was sans-papiers she could not rent an apartment or legally work, and was forced to move from hotel to hotel. This was one of them: 26 rue Servandoni. L’hôtel des Principautés Unies.

From January to May 1941, Hannah Arendt and her second husband Heinrich Blücher lived in Lisbon at Rua Sociedade Farmacêutica #6, while waiting to go to New York.

In 1955, Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher moved to 130 Morningside Drive, and a few years later to 370 Riverside Drive, where they would remain until their deaths.

And finally, in the summers, Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher liked to stay at The Chestnut Lawn House in Palenville, New York.

I'll add a few more!

Summer after Blücher died in 1970, Hannah Arendt stayed with Mary McCarthy at her summer home in Castine, Maine. McCarthy supplied Arendt’s room with her favorite breakfast foods: eggs, ham, cold cuts, bread, anchovy paste, coffee, grapefruit, orange juice.

In 1973 and 1975 Hannah Arendt rented a room at Casa Barbatè in Tegna, Switzerland. She wrote parts of her final work, The Life of the Mind in solitude, occasionally receiving friends.

Anyone want to plan a post-quarantine Arendt holiday? http://www.garnibarbate.ch