Hannah Arendt, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil - three fighters for freedom. A thoughtfully composed biography about three outstanding thinkers who have lost none of their fascination to this day: Hannah Arendt, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil were sensitive, self-assured, talented, and spirited, coming from assimilated Jewish families and growing up multilingual. Their main discipline was and remained a lifelong passionate focus on the intellectual. Modern and enlightened, all three confronted the great social, political, philosophical, and religious questions of their time and acted uncompromisingly according to their convictions, regardless of personal losses.