There is a moment in the conversation with Sophie Passmann when the logic of the internet is turned upside down. The satirist, author, and podcaster, a coffee in front of her \u2013 an Americano with cow\u2019s milk, she specifies, without irony, but with the awareness that even this banal preference can become a projection surface \u2013 and explains why she does not consider herself a private person. \u201cI have become a company,\u201d she says. \u201cI am the CEO of my face.\u201d<\/p>\n
She came to this realisation when she noticed that she \u201cviewed American celebrities too much as people and not enough as companies.\u201d Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t make decisions as a simple person whose music you like, but as the CEO of a company who just happens to look exactly like her. This distinction between the private Sophie and Sophie Passmann GmbH \u2013 is more than just a clever metaphor. It is a survival strategy in a public world that simultaneously glorifies and tears women apart, empowering them only to take that power away again the next moment.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125512,"id":125512,"title":"JMG_9329","filename":"JMG_9329.jpg","filesize":305613,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_9329\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_9329","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:28:27","modified":"2026-03-13 13:28:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9329.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
THE SADOMASOCHISM OF PUBLIC LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s almost like practising sadomasochism in public,\u201d says Passmann, describing the dynamics of female visibility. \u201cSometimes you are led, sometimes you lead. But the sword of Damocles is constantly hanging over you.\u201d This permanent ambivalence between subject and object, between power and powerlessness, pervades not only her new book “Wie kann sie nur?”<\/em> (“How Dare She?”<\/em>), which will be published in March, but also her entire existence as a public woman. THE THEATRICALITY OF TRANSGRESSION<\/strong><\/p>\n Passmann has learned to deal with this certainty \u2013 not by toughening up, but through a form of strategic vulnerability. She allows herself the theatricality of being hurt, but only for one day. \u201cToday I don\u2019t have to be brave, today I believe what people say about me on the internet,\u201d she confesses in a chapter in Wie kann sie nur? after seeing a video about herself explaining why she is overrated. The next day, the crisis is over. Not because the criticism has disappeared, but because she has understood that these people \u201cdon\u2019t make informed judgments. They don\u2019t know me; that\u2019s why they can\u2019t like me.\u201d THE DEATH OF THE EGO IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA<\/strong><\/p>\n Passmann intuitively learned that visibility means power \u2013 faster than she realised. But this power went hand in hand with a certain death of the ego. She had to learn that her relevance does not lie in traditional mass media. Instead, she has turned to a different reality: \u201cI live in a world where young women present themselves to one another on social media platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n This world fascinates her, especially \u201cthe displayed banality\u201d of influencers like Emma Chamberlain, who film themselves doing nothing. Passmann does not see this as a lack of content, but rather a demonstration of power: \u201cEight million people watch me order room service: Look what I can do, you stupid assholes!\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125518,"id":125518,"title":"JMG_9436","filename":"JMG_9436-1.jpg","filesize":306958,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_9436-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_9436-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:34:54","modified":"2026-03-13 13:34:54","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9436-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" EXPECTATIONS AS PERFORMANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n At the heart of Passmann\u2019s thinking is the question of expectations. \u201cAs a woman, you always have expectations to fulfil,\u201d she says. The expectation to be either the model feminist or the good woman: pretty enough, but not too pretty, smart, but not too smart, successful, but without making too much money \u2013 and if you do, then secretly. THE RAGE BENEATH THE SURFACE<\/strong><\/p>\n Beneath the polished surface, beneath the ability to be self-deprecating and strategically detached, lies anger. A justified anger at the \u201cincredibly intrusive\u201d demands of her followers, at the \u201cpsychological pressure\u201d she has \u201cnever experienced in my life with anything else.\u201d THE FREEDOM OF NONCONFORMITY<\/strong><\/p>\n In the end, a paradoxical freedom emerges: \u201cIf you\u2019re in the public eye enough, as a woman, you\u2019ll eventually be canceled. And once you\u2019ve been through that, the fun really begins.\u201d This realisation \u2013 that shitstorms have \u201clost their gravitas\u201d because not everyone can be the worst person ever every three months \u2013 is not cynicism, but resilience. Passmann has learned that, in her case, leadership does not mean climbing hierarchies or translating cultural impact into supervisory board positions. \u201cI don\u2019t end up getting the big gigs with private jets either\u201d, she says soberly. But she has found another form of leadership: self-leadership. The ability to distinguish between the private Sophie and the CEO of her face gives her room to breathe in a public sphere that would otherwise suffocate her. SOPHIE PASSMANN\u2019S book Wie kann sie nur? (How Dare She?) was published on March 12, 2026, by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.<\/strong><\/p>\n With 3.9 million likes on TikTok and over 400,000 followers on Instagram, she is one of the most influential voices of her generation\u2014and at the same time its sharpest critic.<\/strong><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" Credits:<\/p>\n Photography: OLENA MINDRINA<\/p>\n Styling: FRANKA KLAPROTH<\/p>\n Creative Production: NINA DAHMS, JOHANNA ERDL<\/p>\n Set Design: JOHANNA ERDL<\/p>\n Hair & Makeup: SARAH HARTGENS<\/p>\n Photo Assistant: ANASTEISHA DANGER<\/p>\n Styling Assistant: FRANKA DEHMEL, HIBA FARFA<\/p>\n Production Assistant: AMINA ZEROUROU<\/p>\n <\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\n
\nWhat is fascinating about Passmann\u2019s analysis is its self-reflexivity. While she writes about the mechanisms to which women are exposed on the internet \u2013 the ascetic discipline of a Hailey Bieber, the calculated bratty attitude of Charli XCX, the neurotic perfection of Taylor Swift \u2013 she knows full well that she is part of this contradictory world. She is both observer and observed, analyst and analysed, judge and defendant.
\n\u201cAny woman can become the worst woman on the internet at any time,\u201d she writes in her book. An edited selfie, an old video clip, a trip that lasted too long, a lip that\u2019s too plump, a lunch box \u2013 it takes so little to go from idol to hate figure.
\nAnd Passmann knows what she\u2019s talking about. Every day, she reads \u201ccruel things\u201d about herself: her blonde hair, her surgery, the fact that she\u2019s no longer single, that \u201ctoday it\u2019s all about selfies and lifestyle\u201d \u2013 the litany of disappointments is endless.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125515,"id":125515,"title":"JMG_9617 3","filename":"JMG_9617-3.jpg","filesize":357350,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_9617-3\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_9617-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:29:16","modified":"2026-03-13 13:29:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9617-3.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}},{"ID":125514,"id":125514,"title":"JMG_9564","filename":"JMG_9564.jpg","filesize":347995,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_9564\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_9564","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:29:00","modified":"2026-03-13 13:29:00","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9564.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
\nThis insight leads to a remarkable attitude: Passmann has stopped trying to convince everyone who is different from what is expected. \u201cI used to sometimes write something back and enjoy the brief moment of shock,\u201d she says of her reactions to hateful comments. Today, she refrains from doing so. The brief satisfaction she used to feel when critics realised she was reading their comments is no longer there. Instead, she feels a form of indifference that is not resignation, but self-protection.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","text":"The courage to be yourself even if others don\u2019t like it.","source":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125517,"id":125517,"title":"JMG_9969","filename":"JMG_9969.jpg","filesize":694605,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_9969\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_9969","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:29:55","modified":"2026-03-13 13:29:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1280,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1280,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1280,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9969.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1280}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
\nNavigating these multiple, often contradictory expectations requires not only skill, but also \u201cthe chutzpah\u201d to decide which ones you want to fulfil and thus accept that you will not fulfil others. \u201cPerhaps with a little more indifference than currently exists on social media,\u201d she adds.
\nBut Passmann believes in a possible shift in the zeitgeist: that women with reach will eventually be allowed to say what is currently considered a mortal sin on the internet \u2013 that having reach is something ambivalent. \u201cI could imagine these women saying at some point: It\u2019s still great to have reach. I\u2019m still grateful, but you stupid assholes, you don\u2019t get to treat me like that.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125509,"id":125509,"title":"JMG_0080","filename":"JMG_0080.jpg","filesize":279315,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_0080\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_0080","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:27:38","modified":"2026-03-13 13:27:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0080.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
\nWhat Passmann does every day is the controlled destruction of the expectations placed on her, the shattering of the projection surfaces, the liberation from the hall of mirrors of public opinion. \u201cI\u2019m a mirrorball, I can change everything about me to fit in,\u201d she quotes Taylor Swift as the motto of her book \u2013 and yet that is precisely her rejection: the refusal to endlessly adapt.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","text":"When rage becomes a powerful moment of choosing your own reality over popular ideas.","source":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125522,"id":125522,"title":"JMG_9643","filename":"JMG_9643.jpg","filesize":435853,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_9643\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_9643","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:42:12","modified":"2026-03-13 13:42:12","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_9643.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
\n\u201cI can be whatever version of me you want to see,\u201d she writes at the end of her book \u2013 and in this statement shows both surrender and triumph. Because those who can be all versions are not bound to any one. Those who see through the performance can re-stage it. And those who understand the mechanism can break it \u2013 at least for themselves, at least for a moment.
\nSophie Passmann\u2019s extraordinary quality lies in this ability to observe herself while simultaneously asserting herself. She is not only a chronicler of her generation, but also its symptom and possible cure. Her book Wie kann sie nur? is not an answer, but a clever reversal of the question: How could she be otherwise?<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":125510,"id":125510,"title":"JMG_0162 1","filename":"JMG_0162-1.jpg","filesize":229155,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-author-of-her-own-image-sophie-passmann\/jmg_0162-1\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jmg_0162-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":125500,"date":"2026-03-13 13:27:52","modified":"2026-03-13 13:27:52","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","medium-width":1280,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1280,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1-1024x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JMG_0162-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1280,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"All Photography by OLENA MINDRINA"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"