The writer Hermann Hesse praised his beloved Swiss Alps to the skies, although the other tourists in the Engadine Valley really got on his nerves. Hermann Hesse turned out to be a proper killjoy: the ...

A rich, insightful biography shows how Hermann Hesse overcame self-hatred, ‘freed the German spirit’ and became a guru for hippies In the early 1920s, the German novelist and poet Hermann Hesse set ...

Heiner Hesse, designer, illustrator and editor: born Basle, Switzerland 1 March 1909; married (four children); died Arcegno, Switzerland 7 April 2003. Heiner Hesse was for more than 35 years the ...

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. Regina moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Producers Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle have optioned Hermann Hesse’s “Demian” and plan to adapt the novel into a feature ...

"Siddhartha" is the story of the spiritual journey of a young man, who shares his name with the Buddha. The novel by Hermann Hesse is set in 6th-century Kapilavastu (now in Nepal), the birthplace of ...

In our collective imagination, “Arcadia” represents that idyllic region located in Greece, described, among others, by Virgil in his Bucolics in 40 B.C. as a place of tranquillity, devoted to the ...

A permanent exhibition on the German-Swiss writer, painter and poet Hermann Hesse, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, and is considered the most read writer of the 20 th Century.