Creative Couples

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, Susan Sontag and Annie Leibowitz, John Cage and Merce Cunningham … Barbara von Bechtolsheim introduces twenty couples from the worlds of music, art and literature and talks about how creativity inspires relationships and how love in turn inspires artistic creation. The lives of many of these couples are inextricably linked. What does their day-to-day life look like, how do they deal with rivalry and stress and loss? How do they keep their love and passion alive? For these artist couples, not everything is perfect – but that is not the point. It is openness and sensitivity, steadfastness and the willingness to try new things in art and in love that inspires them.