Readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, authors, translators and journalists - our doors have been open to all of them since 1997. Three entire floors create the room for dialogue, from current themes and authors to the fundamental questions of literature. Exhibits, readings, discussions, workshops, and more guarantee an exciting program.

A meeting place for book-sippers and page-nibblers, movie-talkers and flaneure, penny-a-liners and foehn detectives, frugal feasters and starving artists, radar thinkers and daydreamers, portly poets and docile fools, in short:
A retreat in the thicket of the city for all who keep an ear out for jingles or simply wish to wait a little longer for Godot.

Munich is the largest publishing metropolis in Germany and Europe. As a result, literature has long occupied a central position within the city. In June of 1997, this important facet of the city's culture manifested itself in a spatial and geographical sense as well: at the historical Salvatorplatz in the heart of Munich, the Literature House opened its doors.

A House for Literature is a hub for public events centered around the book: a meeting point for writers, publishers, book distributors and journalists, an important facility for training employees in the publishing industry, an electronic document pool for contemporary literature. For all who write and read, it is a lively forum that takes up current issues as often as it addresses the fundamental questions raised within the literary and media scenes.