Several authors have written biographies that focus on the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.[60][61][359] In 1999, the French feminist philosopher Catherine Clément wrote a novel, Martin and Hannah,[360] speculating on the triangular relationship between Heidegger and the two women in his life, Arendt and Heidegger's wife Elfriede Petri. In addition to the relationships, the novel is a serious exploration of philosophical ideas, that centers on Arendt's last meeting with Heidegger in Freiburg in 1975. The scene is based on Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's description in Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (1982),[67] but reaches back to their childhoods, and Heidegger's role in encouraging the relationship between the two women.[361] The novel explores Heidegger's embrace of Nazism as a proxy for that of Germany and, as in Arendt's treatment of Eichmann, the difficult relationship between collective guilt and personal responsibility. Clément also brings Hannah's other mentor and confidante, Karl Jaspers, into the matrix of relationships.[362]
In 2012 the German film, Hannah Arendt, directed by Margarethe von Trotta was released. The film, with Barbara Sukowa in the title role, depicted the controversy over Arendt's coverage of the Eichmann trial and subsequent book,[218] in which she was widely misunderstood as defending Eichmann and blaming Jewish leaders for the Holocaust.[363][364] In 2015, the filmmaker Ada Ushpiz produced a documentary on Hannah Arendt, Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.[319] In the 2023 TV series Transatlantic, Arendt is portrayed by Alexa Karolinski.[365][366]
