It’s not easy being the son of a famous father. More so if that father is often absent and the family breaks apart. This correspondence, containing almost 300 hitherto unpublished letters, shows how Hermann Hesse and his sons Bruno and Heiner managed to establish a loving relationship throughout their lifetime »despite all difficulties«.
The correspondence published here sets in at the beginning of the year 1920. Two years prior, Hesse’s first wife and mother of...
It’s not easy being the son of a famous father. More so if that father is often absent and the family breaks apart. This correspondence, containing almost 300 hitherto unpublished letters, shows how Hermann Hesse and his sons Bruno and Heiner managed to establish a loving relationship throughout their lifetime »despite all difficulties«.
The correspondence published here sets in at the beginning of the year 1920. Two years prior, Hesse’s first wife and mother of his children, Mia Hesse-Bernoulli, suffered a psychological breakdown and was admitted to hospital. As a result of this, Hesse finds himself forced to consign his sons to the care of others: 14-year-old Bruno is fostered by friends, Heiner, who is four years younger, experiences an odyssey through children’s homes and boarding schools.
»Trusting that we won’t lose one another«
Hesse tries hard to accompany his sons’ development in word and deed despite the physical separation. With great sympathy, he responds to the problems and life plans of the two adolescents, always individually tailored to Bruno’s and Heiner’s respective disposition and character. In his letters he encourages them to go their own way and to keep developing the aptitudes they carry within them. This correspondence documents in an entertaining and enlightening manner how it is not just Hesse helping them find their place in life but that over the years they, in turn, help him adjust to his role as a father.
»The correspondence ›Trusting That We Won't Lose One Another‹ shows how an exceptionally close bond formed between the three through the act of writing – and that there is always more than one way.« stern
»A dramatic family discourse about the fundamental questions of the times, whose moral greatness on all sides includes the fact that – even though there was a risk of that numerous times – it wasn’t terminated by none of the parties.« Gunnar Decker, neues deutschland
»Hesse, downright assailed with letters throughout his life, was a highly gifted and immensely diligent letter writer, and even though one will never find the entire, incredibly extensive correspondence between the covers of a book, it is at least given the place that it deserves in the hitherto edited volumes and correspondences .« Klaus Bellin, Falter
»another piece of the jigsaw of his life so brilliantly explored by literary studies.« Welf Grombacher, Märkische Oderzeitung
»›Trusting That We Won't Lose One Another‹ casts an interesting light on one of Germany’s more important poets who engaged with spirituality, Indian wisdom teaching and Christian mysticism and thereby also became one of the spiritual forefathers of the hippie movement.« Fantasia 817e
»The correspondence ›Trusting That We Won't Lose One Another‹ shows how an exceptionally close bond formed between the three through the act of writing – and that there is always more than one way.« stern
»A dramatic family discourse about the fundamental questions of the times, whose moral greatness on all sides includes the fact that – even though there was a risk of that numerous times – it wasn’t...
Hermann Hesse, born in Calw/Württemberg in 1877, died in Montagnola near Lugano, Italy, in August 1962. After an apprenticeship to become a bookseller, he began to work as a freelance author in 1904. In 1946, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and in 1955 the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. He is one of the most famous German authors of the 20th century.
Hermann Hesse, born in Calw/Württemberg in 1877, died in Montagnola near Lugano, Italy, in August 1962. After an apprenticeship to become a...
»Surrounded by the Flutters of Western and Eastern Lures« ‒ the title of this volume of correspondence refers to the wooing of both West and East German cultural institutions and interest groups that set in after Hesse had been awarded the Nobel Prize as well as other distinctions. Hesse was only too aware that these attempts at appropriation in both West and East were intended to...
Brüdi – this was the family’s nickname for Martin, Hermann Hesse’s youngest son.
When Hermann Hesse left his family in April 1919 to lead an unattached life in Ticino on the southern side of the Alps, his three sons were sent to live with foster families or to a children’s home. A shock especially for Martin, just seven years old. Like Hesse’s first...
The Tree of Life was first published in the Insel-Bücherei series in 1934. Hermann Hesse himself selected the poems; only those that met his own criteria of longevity and quality...
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This volume comprising more than 500 letters sets in few months after the begin of World War II. These letters depict in many dramatic episodes the extent to which Hermann Hesse and his German...
»My childhood days I think of now, / A long-forgotten fairy tale sound awakens: / Bells ring and on silver shoes / The Christkind walks though the white night.« It’s mainly childhood...
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At the age of 40, in the middle of World War I, Hermann Hesse started to paint. To him it was an »outlet, so as to be able to bear life even in the direst of times« and to gain some distance from...
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The years between 1924 and 1932 once more show Hermann Hesse to be »a person of becoming and of change«. For him, they begin with the experiment of a new (yet short-lived) marriage. The effects of...
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Self-determination instead of conformation, obstinacy instead of submission – this is the common thread that weaves through all of Hermann Hesse’s works. To him, every person’s disposition...
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To Hermann Hesse, trees are symbols that coalesce with memories, symbols of evanescence and rebirth, but also of »all growth, all libidinal, natural life, all insouciance and proliferous...
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»I have always had a connection with butterflies and other fleeting and ephemeral beauties, while I have never succeeded in maintaining permanent, committed and so-called solid relationships,«...
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For Hermann Hesse, there is no progress without the realisation of utopias, and therefore he conceived the model of an educational system informed by order, reason and moderation in the...
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Two primal principes, inextricably linked: The novice Narcissus, the »wunderkind«, a thinker and ascetic devoted to scholarly and spiritual pursuits, befriends the young student Goldmund at the...
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»At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn...
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Siddhartha, the world-famous story of a young person’s self-liberation from familial and societal pressures and rules in order to lead an independent life shows that awareness cannot be...
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The three stories from the life of the vagabond Knulp, a descendant of Eichendorff’s »good-for-nothing«, belong among the most delightful pieces of Hermann Hesse’s early prose. In the sequence of...
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»Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of...
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Gertrude is the story of two artists, completely different in their nature and their fate yet still friends: long-suffering composer Kuhn and singer/Don Juan Heinrich Muoth. Their mutual...
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Beneath the Wheel describes the fate of a gifted child who is forced into a role that is at odds with his nature by his father’s ambition and the local patriotism of his home town and who...
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»Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is...
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