“Before your LSD session, read Siddartha and Steppenwolf,” advised Timothy Leary. By John Gray Writing to the woman who would become his third wife, Hermann Hesse complained: “Life for me now holds ...

A short film from swissinfo.ch – in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and English – includes personal images of Hermann Hesse from his years in Ticino. Hermann Karl Hesse, the German-Swiss poet, ...

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 ...

WALTHAM, Mass. – This winter experience Hermann Hesse’s novel “Siddhartha” like never before – retold through the lens of its creator on the Brandeis Theater Company stage (BTC), featuring ...

In a world obsessed with speed, success, and social comparison, it’s easy to lose sight of who we are and what truly matters. That’s where Hermann Hesse’s writing comes in—not as a quick fix, but as a ...

When I was told “throwback review” I figured go big or go home and subsequently decided to throw way back to 1919, when German author Hermann Hesse first published perhaps his best-known work of ...

When the novel about an Indian man's spiritual journey was first published, it barely created a ripple. Decades later, it inspired millions to embark on a voyage of self-discovery. "Siddhartha" is 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.