In confidence

Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy met in a Manhattan bar in 1945, became friends, and wrote letters to each other for more than twenty-five years: documents of an unbreakable trust, at the same time an unprecedentedly open dialogue between two intelligent women who spoke courageously and without prejudice about everything that moved them: politics, morality, their books, their men. Here Judaism and Catholicism meet, European education and American political culture, German university tradition and upper-class college education. And two women meet who also appreciate the irreverence of the sober view and the open speech.Katharina Thalbach reads the letters of Hannah Arendt, Sandra Quadflieg lends her voice to Mary McCarthy(2 CDs, running time: approx. 2h 30).