For the Time Being: The Decisions of Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger developed into Germany's greatest philosopher in the years between the world wars. Led by his anti-modernist conservatism, he embraced Nazism and became rector of Freiburg University under the Fuhrer principle in 1933. This dramatic re-imagining of his life takes his relations with Jewish students, colleagues, lovers and friends into account. Important characters include Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Ernst Cassirer and Edith Stein.

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The Man Without a Party

The Kaiser fined him for his writings; he refused to pay. The Weimar Republic charged him with treason for publishing the truth about their illegal military build-up. He fought them in court and went to prison. In early 1933, when Hitler took power, journalist Carl von Ossietzky was one of the first thrown into the new concentration camps.

In order to get him out of Germany, Ossietzky’s friends nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Never thinking he would win, they hoped to create enough international uproar to force Hitler to free the journalist he was torturing.

Ossietzky won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1935.

But Hitler still would not let his captive go.

This is Carl von Ossietzky’s story.