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  Hermann Hesse - Books and Biography
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg.
Hesse's short marriage to Ruth Wenger, the daughter of the Swiss writer Lisa Wenger, was unhappy.
Hesse's books continued to be published in Germany during the Nazi regime, and were defended in a secret circular in 1937 by Joseph Goebbels.
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  Hermann Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877 in Waynesboro, Virginia.
Hesse's father, Johannes Hesse, was born in 1847 in Estonia, the son of a doctor.
In 1924, Hesse married the singer Ruth Wenger, the daughter of the Swiss writer Lisa Wenger and aunt of Meret Oppenheim.
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 Hermann Hesse - Wikipedia
Informationen zum Theologen Hermann Albert Hesse sind unter seinem vollen Namen zu finden.
Hermann Hesse war in einer depressiven Phase seiner Bipolaren Störung und äußerte in einem Brief vom 20.
Hesses geistige Zuflucht vor den politischen Auseinandersetzungen und später vor den Schreckensmeldungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges war die Arbeit an seinem Roman „Das Glasperlenspiel“, der 1943 in der Schweiz gedruckt wurde.
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 Hermann Hesse - Wikipédia
Hermann Hesse (né le 2 juillet 1877 à Calw, Allemagne; mort le 9 août 1962 à Montagnola, Suisse) est un romancier, poète, peintre et essayiste allemand -suisse.
Hermann Hesse était dans une phase dépressive de son trouble bipolaire, et il exprima dans une lettre du 20 mars 1892 des pensées suicidaires («je voudrais partir comme le coucher de soleil»).
Hermann Hesse mourut le 9 août 1962 et fut enterré au cimetière de Sant’Abbondio près de Montagnola, où Hugo Ball repose également.
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 HERMANN HESSE
Hesse was born on July 2, 1877, in the town of Calw at the Northern edge of the Black Forest.
Hesse was working on a "small prose composition" at the time, which was to become Peter Camenzind, a book which was to bring Hesse immediate fame and marked the true beginning of his reputation as a great writer.
Hesse's contribution to journals, his editorial and his work as a literary critic were not only influential on contemporary literature, but they were also very important to Hesse, who felt it a serious and important duty, done primarily for reasons of "conscience".
www.gss.ucsb.edu /projects/hesse/life/jennifer.html   (5017 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hermann Hesse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Peter Caminzind was the first novel by Hermann Hesse and contains a number of themes that were to preoccupy many of Hesses later works, most notably the individuals search for a unique spiritual and physical identity amidst the backdrops of nature and modern civilization and the role of...
The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse is a collection of 22 fairy tales written by Hermann Hesse between the years of 1904 and 1918 and translated by Jack Zipes.
Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, Germany to a Christian Missionary family.
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 HERMANN HESSE
Carl Hermann Hesse, in qualità di medico dello stato russo, rimase da parte sua indifferente al pensiero positivistico-materialistico dominante a quel tempo.
Hermann è costretto a seguire un apprendistato presso l'officina di orologi da campanile di Heinrich Perrot a Calw.
Dopo i primi successi letterari Hesse trovò una schiera di lettori sempre crescente, innanzitutto nei paesi di lingua tedesca, poi, prima della Grande guerra, negli altri paesi europei e in Giappone, e dopo l'assegnazione del Nobel per la letteratura (1946) in tutto il mondo.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877, in Calw, Germany.
The son of a former Pietist missionary, Hesse was expected to join the ministry and was sent to the Maulbronn seminary in 1892 to complete his education.
Hesse, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1946, lived the rest of his life in seclusion in Switzerland where he died on August 9, 1962.
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 Hermann Hesse
Determined by the age of 13 "to be a poet or nothing," Hesse at first wrote derivative, romantic poems and stories of little merit.
Hesse did not write any novels after 1943 but continued to publish essays, letters, poems, reviews, and stories.
Hesse's novels became immensely popular during the 1950s in the English-speaking world, where their criticism of bourgeois values and interest in Eastern religious philosophy and Jungian psychology echoed the preoccupations of the younger generation.
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 First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Hermann Hesse
Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
Hermann Hesse was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Württemberg.
Hesse's second marriage to Ruth Wenger (1924-27) was unhappy.
www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/hesse.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg.
Hesse's mother, Marie Gundert, was born in Talatscheri, India, as the daughter of the Pietist missionary and Indologist, Hermann Gundert.
Hesse volunteered for service in the German army in 1914, but was rejected because of poor health.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hhesse.htm   (1821 words)

  
 Hermann Hesse - Biography and Works
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German poet and novelist, who has depicted in his works the duality of spirit and nature, body versus mind and the individual's spiritual search outside the restrictions of the society.
Hermann Hesse was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg on July 2, 1877.
These individuals, which Herman Hesse was one of them, cannot help to see deeper and further when they look, so they usually are outcasts as far as society is concerned, and they must hence suffer more, so as was written by Hesse the steppen wolf was as outcast as knulp and finally yoseph Kencht.
www.online-literature.com /hesse   (1780 words)

  
 Hermann Hesse Memorials in Calw
Hesse`s parents Johannes and Maria, lived here from their marriage in 1874 on until they and their children moved to Basel in 1881.
The square`s small fountain was named Hermann Hesse-Fountain in 1920, it was later moved to the vicinity of the Brühl and then, during the town`s redevelopment in the 1970s, was returned to its original position and the square was renamed: Hermann Hesse-Platz.
Hesse referred to his father as an "ascetic gentleman who was nevertheless a gourmet of the simple things".
www.hermann-hesse.com /html/english/e.calw.html   (2061 words)

  
 Hermann Hesse :: SWB author biography
Hermann Hesse was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in literature.
Born in Calw, Württemberg, Hesse emigrated to Switzerland in 1912 and in 1923 became a Swiss citizen.
Hermann Gundert is the grandfather of Hermann Hesse.
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 Hermann Hesse Biography and Summary
Hermann Hesse, the most widely translated German author of the twentieth century, authored what he liked to call "biographies of the soul." Though many of his best-known works were novels, they were largely autobiographical, and centered recurrently on o...
Hesse used romanticism as a tool for the development of a unique approach, leading to a sharp analysis of the self, the meaning of personal identity and the conditions of self-consciousness, which he explores in contemporary terms….
Hesse's postwar novels are concerned with the inner world turned inside out, yielding not only dreams, memories, or hallucinations per se but also the world underlying perception, which is dissolved and recomposed in the self's inner landscape.
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 Hermann Hesse
Hesse's Der Steppenwolf is a narrative that, like a number of German novels of High Modernism, is animated by a sense of cultural crisis, by an intense self-consciousness, and by the need for a utopian resolution to present ills.
Hermann Gundert gradually shifts from missionary to colonial activities, and his grandson Hermann Hesse’s reinvents himself as a romanticized, almost transcendental Indian “rishi” or seer.
Hermann Hesse was born 125 years ago — not long enough, perhaps, to earn him a place among Germany’s established classics, and yet too long ago for him to be considered a modern, let alone a contemporary author.
www.german.leeds.ac.uk /utopie/hesseheute.htm   (5809 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Hermann Hesse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But immediately following that came Hermann Hesse's study of the Buddha's early life, "Siddhartha." It comes as no surprise, for Hesse was one of the major literary influences on the Beat generation ("Siddhartha" was translated into English in the early '50s).
With the publication of "Siddhartha" in 1922, Hesse was on his way to solidifying his theory of spirituality, which posited Eastern thought as a valid and necessary alternative to the values existing in Europe at the time.
Hesse traveled to India (where his mother had been born as a missionary's daughter) and adopted much of Buddhism's transcendental philosophy.
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 Hermann Hesse : : : : : El Poder de la Palabra : : : : :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Hesse nació el 2 de julio de 1877 en Calw, Alemania.
Las novelas de Hesse desde entonces se fueron haciendo cada vez más simbólicas y acercándose más al psicoanálisis.
Hesse, que ganó el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1946, murió el 9 de agosto de 1962 en Suiza.
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 Hermann Hesse der Steppenwolf
Hesses Roman "Der Steppenwolf" entstand in einer schweren seelischen Krise des damals knapp 50jährigen Autors.
Hesses Familienleben zerbrach bereits 1918, er zog sich daraufhin nach Montagnola zurück.
Hesses Werk basiert vorwiegend auf Gedanken, Meinungen & Erkenntnissen der Hauptfigur, deswegen ist eine genaue Wiedergabe der eher handlungsarmen, dafür mehr auf Gedanken, Betrachtungen & Erkenntnissen bezogenen, Geschichte nicht oder nur schwer möglich.
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 Hermann Hesse - A short Biography
Hesse lives with his parents in Basle, where his father teaches at the "Basler Mission" and in 1883 obtains Swiss nationality (previously Russian nationality.
As a State Scholar Hesse has to give up his Swiss civil rights so in November 1890 his father acquires the Württemberg citizenship for him (as the only member of the family).
At the beginning of the war Hesse volunteers but is considered unfit for service and is assigned to the German Embassy in Bern.
www.hermann-hesse.com /html/english/e.biographie.html   (1103 words)

  
 Hermann Hesse
The son of a former Pietist missionary, Hesse was expected to join the ministry and was sent to the Maulbronn seminary in 1892 to complete his education.
Hesse's later work shows his interest in Jungian concepts of introversion and extroversion, the collective unconscious, idealism, and symbols.
Hesse, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1946, lived the rest of his life in seclusion in Switzerland where he died on August 9, 1962.Female Artist (in 1984, 1986, 1989, and 1990).
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in Calw, Germany.
Hesse’s father Johannes was the son of a country doctor in Estonia.
Thus Hermann was caught in the dilemma between wanting to belong, to please his parents and to be accepted in a warm loving home, and on the other hand the need to follow his irresistible inner voice.
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 Hermann Hesse und China Test & Preisvergleich ab 12,50 € bei Yopi.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 AllRefer.com - Hermann Hesse (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Hermann Hesse[her´mAn hes´u] Pronunciation Key, 1877–1962, German novelist and poet.
The spiritual loneliness of the artist and his estrangement from the modern world are recurring themes in Hesse's works.
The gentle, lyric quality of Hesse's prose is shared by the wistful, lamenting verse of his Gedichte (1922, tr.
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 Hermann Hesse
Hesse: The secret Swiss; An exhibit at Zurich's Landesmuseum seeks to bring to life the work of novelist Hermann Hesse--and the strong......
Hermann Hesse, profugo de si mismo: esquivo el manicomio para convertirse en uno de los mas venerados escritores del siglo XX.(Biografia)...
Following in Hesse's footsteps: Hermann Hesse is the most widely read German language author in the world.
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 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
for hesse, rejecting the idea of conventional time in favor of "all is now" seems to be the key to getting past teachings and recognizing the oneness that always is, always has been, always will be.
I have read a number of works by Hesse through the years and I must say some seem to build on a type of story telling revolution that should have continued after the authors death.
Hesse wrote other works which are very akin to this type of prose, namely 'Narcisuss und Goldmund' and the three final tales of 'The Glass Bead Game'.
www.online-literature.com /hesse/siddhartha   (861 words)

  
 Hermann Hesse Society- Nepal
Hermann Hesse Society Nepal-2000 is a non-government, literary organization constituted under the Nepalese law and registered with the local authority of the government of Nepal.
Among such great personalities, Hermann Hesse is the one who remains as the great literary figure of the German-speaking world.
Hermann Hesse Society Nepal-2000 is a literary organization dedicated to promoting the German Literature in Nepal and vice versa.
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