To celebrate Valentine's Day, and in connection with the exhibition Bertolt Brecht's Paper War, which deals with exile during the Nazi era, acting students from the Lee Strasberg Institute will read selected love letters exchanged by Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher. Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher met in Paris in 1936, both exiled from Nazi Germany. Arendt was Jewish and escaped Germany in 1933 after being arrested by the Gestapo, and Blucher was a communist and was expelled due to his work with Versohnler, an opposition group. Their early romance was characterized by tribulations, including being separated into different internment camps before they were eventually able to flee to the U.S. in 1941. They lived in New York together until Blucher's death in 1970, sharing their love and work; as Blucher wrote, "We each do our work, and then come together to discuss."
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