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Hermann Hesse. Hermann Karl Hesse ( German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ⓘ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. Although Hesse was born in Germany's Black Forest region of Swabia, his father's celebrated heritage as a Baltic German and his grandmother's French-Swiss roots had an intellectual influence on him.
Jun 28, 2024 · Hermann Hesse (born July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany—died August 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland) was a German novelist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. The main theme of his work is the individual’s efforts to break out of the established modes of civilization so as to find an essential spirit and identity.
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Biographical note on Hermann Hesse. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) received the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt in 1946 and the Peace Prize of the German Booksellers in 1955. A complete edition of his works in six volumes appeared in 1952; a seventh volume (1957) contains essays and miscellaneous writings. Beschwörungen (1955) [Evocations], a volume of ...
Nov 26, 2019 · Early Life and Education . Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany, a small city in the Black Forest in the southwest of the country. His background was unusually varied; his mother, Marie Gundert, was born in India to missionary parents, a French-Swiss mother and a Swabian German; Hesse’s father, Johannes Hesse, was born in present-day Estonia, then controlled by Russia; he thus belonged to ...
His Life — Museum Hermann Hesse Montagnola. 1877–1894 · Childhood and Youth. 1894–1911 · The young man of letters and city-dweller. 1912–1919 · Upheavel in Hesse's life. 1919–1930 · A turning point in his life. 1931–1962 · Maturity and old age. Casa Camuzzi.
In 1931 Hermann Hesse and his third wife Ninon moved into the Casa Rossa in Montagnola, about 10 minutes walking-distance from Casa Camuzzi. His friend and patron Hans C. Bodmer from Zurich bought the land and built the house according to their wishes, granting them the right to live there for the rest of their life. After 1931, watercolour ...
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As a young man, Herman Hesse ran away from education as a minister in the seminary at Maulbronn Monastery. A period of crisis and rebellion ensued before he began working in bookstores in Tübingen and Basel. He made his debut as a poet in 1896, and after the novel Peter Camenzind (1904), he was able to support himself as a writer.
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