Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 in Germany and showed from an early age that she was not one to settle for easy answers. A philosopher, political theorist and brilliant thinker, she had a life that reads more like a film script - with escapes from totalitarian regimes, stints in refugee camps and, of course, various intellectual provocations along the way.

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She fled Nazism for the USA, where she became one of the most influential minds of the 20th century, challenging, among other things, the concept of authority and what it means to live under oppressive regimes. His books, such as ‘The Origin of Totalitarianism’ and ‘The Human Condition’, are like a slap in the face to any society that tries to ignore politics and human rights.

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With a unique ability to wade into controversial discussions, Arendt became famous for her profound analyses of power, freedom and the banality of evil - yes, she was talking about the famous trial of Eichmann, one of the main Nazi criminals, where she said that he was not a monster, but someone completely ‘banal’.

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She died in 1975, but to this day she continues to challenge our certainties about what it means to be human, what it means to be free and, of course, what it means to be responsible.