In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse.

That’s where Hermann Hesse’s writing comes in—not as a quick fix, but as a profound mirror held up to the soul. Hesse, a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and thinker, wrote deeply philosophical ...

“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse nowadays.” This rueful assessment of the novelist Hermann Hesse, quoted in the opening pages of Gunnar Decker’s new ...

Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology ...

Producers Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle have optioned Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and plan to adapt the novel into a feature film. Nick Kreiss (“Afraid”) has penned a screenplay ...

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Signed and dated »8/2« and »24«; Stamped with the collector stamp »Heiner Hesse, sott' al Brumo, CH-6611 Arcegno« and numbered in handwriting »318« on the verso Olaf Gulbransson Museum, »Hermann Hesse ...