Die Banalität der Liebe (The Banality of Love) (2017)
(Opera in two acts for seven singers, chorus and symphony orchestra)

The protocols of the German-American Jew Hannah Arendt on the Eichmann trial in the 1960s served as a model. She called these protocols from a time that completely changed her own fate and turned the enamoured philosophy student into a self-confident political theorist ‘Banality of Evil’. 

Savyon Liebknecht tells the love story between the young Hannah Arendt and her philosophy professor Martin Heidegger in a very subjective and emotional way. For the sake of dramaturgical enhancement, she adds the fictional character of Rafael Mendelson as Hannah's childhood friend and duplicates all the characters, as the opera takes place on two time levels. As a 69-year-old lady, Hannah Arendt looks back on her life in 1975 shortly before her death.