 In the summer of 1925, while home at Königsberg, Arendt composed her sole autobiographical piece, "Die Schatten" (The Shadows), a "description of herself" addressed to Heidegger.In this essay, full of anguish and Heideggerian language, she reveals her insecurities relating to her femininity and Jewishness, writing abstractly in the third person.She describes a state of ""Fremdheit"" (alienation), on the one hand an abrupt loss of youth and innocence, on the other an ""Absonderlichkeit"" (strangeness), the finding of the remarkable in the banal.