Susan Sontag
Everything Matters
23.05.2025 - 30.11.2025 ,
Literaturhaus München (House of Literature Munich)
"Everything matters", wrote Susan Sontag, the great New York intellectual, in her diary at the age of 16.
For the brilliant essayist, writer and culture obsessive, it was equally important to read, write, look, act and live. The exhibition at Literaturhaus München (House of Literature Munich) presents this icon of philosophical thought in the 20th century in five stations and stages a journey through time to the place where she lived, New York, and to the people in her life. Susan Sontag was passionate about having her own judgement, allowing art to have an impact, making up her own mind and travelling to the places where things happened. "The world was her subject", said Paul Auster, with whom Susan Sontag had a decades-long friendship. Now she is being discovered by a new generation.
With numerous, partly unpublished photographs, manuscripts, quotations, film clips, personal objects from her estate and an extensive accompanying programme.
"I wanted to see as much as I could" (Susan Sontag, 2003)
Last edited on 02.05.2025
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