The 100-hour Hannah Arendt reading by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin had to be canceled after a scandal. On Saturday, groups disrupted the reading twice and shouted slogans such as “Viva, viva Palestine” and “Against White Supremacy”. While a group of around 20 to 30 people had properly registered as “activists” in the afternoon for a reading passage of Arendt’s text “Elements and Origins of Total Domination” and left again after their time was over, the troublemakers were said to be in the evening the organizer acted much more aggressively. The artist and the readers, among whom there were Jewish participants, were insulted and the Lebanese-born director of the Hamburger Bahnhof, Sam Bardaouil, was spat on. A demonstrator shouted “Israel is not real”.
Uproar at Hannah Arendt reading: “Insulted, spat on, insulted” – culture
