In 1997, she helped to establish the Hermann Hesse Museum, here in the hilltop village where Hesse spent the second half of his long life. In 1998, she became the museum’s director, and this ...

Hermann Hesse's parental home in Calw, Baden-Württemberg Image: picture-alliance/dpa/J.P. Strobel A book of the counterculture When "Siddhartha" was published in autumn 1922, it was not exactly a ...

Admission to the talk, “Thomas Merton, Hermann Hesse and the Israel-Palestinian War,” is by donation. Hosted at the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace (1825 West 16th Ave).

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 ...

Popular theatre troupe Aarshinagar is all set to stage one of their crowd-favourite plays, "Siddhartha". The play, which is the fourth production of the troupe, is adapted from German-Swiss writer ...

Hesse's family actually did have ties with India: His mother was born in South India during one of the missions of her father, Hermann Gundert, in Kerala.

He not only wrote great works such as «Siddhartha» and «Steppenwolf», but painted bright landscapes as well. Hesse moved to Montagnola in 1919, at the age of 42, and found it to be ideal to ...