The times when the Californian-born Manhattan resident stood for folk pop hits like "Luka", "Marlene On The Wall" or "Tom's Diner" are finally over. Today, at 57, the superstar of the 80s is at home in the world of art and theatre - as a director, scriptwriter and composer. Which is why her current project "Lover, Beloved" also proves to be a mixture of a studio album and her now second stage play about the US writer Carson McCullers (1917-1967). Vega admits with a smile that she is almost a bit obsessed with her: "I have the feeling that she was far ahead of her time and suffered a lot from it. She was socially critical, bisexual, exceptionally talented and very sensitive. In addition, she was already seriously ill as a young girl, she had health problems all her life. When she was 30, she suffered a stroke and remained paralyzed on one side. Nevertheless, she worked every day, and her work is characterized by a combative touch. I admire her for that."
Suzanne Vega thinks Carson McCullers is a strong woman. A rebel of literature that has provoked and polarized. And their works, such as the novel "Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger" ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter") or the novella "Die Ballade vom traurigen Café" ("The Ballad of the Sad Café"), stood for daring liberal ideas in an extremely conservative period. At the same time, however, she was also a tragic heroine: dependent on a wheelchair, addicted to alcohol and drugs and imprisoned in a marriage that she felt was hell on earth. A stuff Vega first came in contact with at college. She was so fascinated by it that she staged the play "Carson McCuller's Talks About Love" on Broadway in 2011. But because she was never really satisfied with it, there is now a revised version, which premiered on October 21st in Los Angeles and will be performed all over the USA in the next weeks and months.
