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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Head of School (Modern Languages), Royal Holloway University of London This year’s Edinburgh fringe has seen the UK premiere of Siddhartha: The Musical. The show is based on the classic novel ...

In 2012, we reported that Billy Corgan opened a tea shop in the Chicago suburbs called Madame Zuzu's. (He did not call it Mellon Collie and the Infinite Souchong, because he did not ask me first.) Now ...