Soul of the Age (62 page)

447
. A publicist friend of Hesse's, who expanded Hugo Ball's biography of Hesse and edited Hesse's correspondence with Thomas Mann (1968).

448
.
Ferien: Eine Herbstgabe
(1849).

449
. “Jesus und die Armen” (“Jesus and the Poor”) (
Gedichle,
p. 587).

450
. Distinguished Catholic novelist.

451
.
The Glass Bead Game.

452
. Writer, liberal politician, and first president (1949–59) of the Federal Republic.

453
. Pour le Mérite (Peace category, awarded to foreigners). “A nice thing about it,” Hesse wrote at the end of June to his cousin Wilhelm Gundert, “is that the previous recipients include people like Jacob Grimm.”

454
. The publishing house.

455
. In October–November, 1954, Peter Suhrkamp had to undergo treatment again in the Allgäu for his heart and lung complaints.

456
. New publications by Max Frisch (the novel
Stiller
), Ernst Penzoldt (the story “Squirrel”), and Monique Saint-Hélier (the novel
Der Eisvogel
).

457
. In 1954 Suhrkamp published a facsimile edition of Hesse's tale
Piktor's Metamorphoses
in his own handwriting and with his watercolor illustrations.

458
. This letter to Hesse's Swiss publisher was printed in
Die Weltwoche,
Zurich, January 7, 1955.

459
. The Zurich painter Paul Bodmer.

460
. Hermann Oldenberg,
Buddha
(1906).

461
. Poet and cultural philosopher.

462
. See “The Fourth Life” in
Tales of Student Life.

463
. Hesse described his relationship with his patron and friend Georg Reinhart in his memoir “Der schwarze König,” in
Gedenkblätter
(Frankfurt, 1984), pp. 234ff.

464
. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author of the play
Nathan the Wise
(1779).

465
. Karl Münchinger, who had been director of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra since 1954.

466
. Proofs of the collection
Beschwörungen: Späte Prosa
(Frankfurt, 1955).

467
. Theodor W. Adorno, philosopher, musicologist, critic.

468
. Thomas Mann, who had just turned eighty, died in the Zurich Cantonal Hospital on August 12, 1955.

469
. Marulla, Hesse's youngest sister, died at the age of seventy-three on March 17, 1953.

470
. In an earlier letter of August 1955 Hesse had responded to Frau H.S.'s observation that he was currently the “most widely read” writer in Germany.

471
. A privately printed piece, “Ein Paar Leserbriefe an H.H.,” which had appeared recently (Montagnola, 1955).

472
. Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin on August 14, 1956, at the age of fifty-eight.

473
. The writer Kurt Kläber, editor of the journal
Die Linkskurve,
lived in neighboring Carona. On March 19, 1933, he took his friends Brecht and Bernard von Brentano to visit Hesse in Montagnola.

474
. Hesse's friend and patron Dr. H. C. Bodmer had died on May 28, 1956. See the poem “Nachruf” (
Gedichte,
p. 710).

475
. “Der Trauermarsch,” first published in the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
December 2, 1956; reprinted in
Gedenkblätter
(Frankfurt, 1984).

476
. Walser died of a heart attack during a solitary walk in the snow on December 25, 1956.

477
. Carl Seelig, “Am Grab von Robert Walser,” in
National-Zeitung,
Basel, January 6, 1957.

478
. One of Hesse's best-known poems.

479
. Suhrkamp's letter of July 6, 1957, described the ceremonies in the Liederhalle in Stuttgart celebrating Hesse's eightieth birthday and in Calw and Baden-Baden during the award of the first Hermann Hesse Prize to Martin Walser. In
H. Hesse–Peter Suhrkamp Briefwechsel
(Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1967).

480
. Latin: “May God make things turn out well.”

481
. Carl J. Burckhardt had allowed Hesse to avail himself of his secretary, Frau Henriette Speiser, for a few days.

482
. “Besides, all hell had broken loose in the house. The cellar was constantly under water, and it became evident that the entire drainage system, which is about 160 meters long, is broken or clogged. They have dug up half the property by now, and the road as well, as much as two meters deep.” (From a letter to Otto Engel.)

483
. Karlheinz Deschner,
Kitsch, Konvention und Kunst: Eine literarische Streitschrift
(1957).

484
. Thornton Wilder was awarded the German book trade's Peace Prize.

485
. Hesse's former housekeeper.

486
. Preparatory work on a little volume of writings by Peter Suhrkamp, which Siegfried Unseld had proposed, and which Hermann Kasack subsequently edited:
Der Leser: Aufsätze und Reden
(1960).

487
. Ruth and her husband, the actor Erich Haussmann, were living in Dresden.

488
.
Die Gedichte.

489
. A picture taken by Martin Hesse.

490
. Calw, Hesse's birthplace, was planning to transform the Vischers' courtly house in Bischofstrasse into a local museum that would include a Hesse room. This plan, which was subsequently implemented, led to the creation of the present-day Hermann Hesse Museum, the only permanent exhibition in Europe devoted to Hesse.

491
. The collection of Hesse's friends Alice and Fritz Leuthold.

492
. In 1959 Professor Joseph Mileck acquired the collection of Horst Kliemann for the University of California, Berkeley.

493
. Professor at the University of Toronto; author of an introductory volume to Hermann Hesse (1970).

494
. Published in the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
April 8, 1960.

495
. E. Valentin,
Musica Domestica: Von Geschichte und Wesen der Hausmusik
(1959).

496
. Hesse's friend Volkmar Andreä, composer and director of the Zurich Conservatory.

497
. A kind of pseudonym or Chinese mask Hesse assumed in his latter years when he wanted to convey a special message. Meng Hsiä means “dream writer.”

498
. Under the honorary chairmanship of Theodor Heuss on October 20, 1961.

499
. Tilbert Etzel, chairman of the German Club in Pretoria, South Africa.

500
. Klaus Mann would have been fifty-five years old on November 18, 1961.

501
. Alfred Kantorovicz,
Heinrich und Thomas Mann
(1956).

502
.
Thomas Mann, Briefe 1889–1936,
ed. by Erika Mann (1961).

503
. Fourteenth-century arched hall used for public meetings and festivities.

504
. Johannes R. Becher, Minister of Cultural Affairs of the German Democratic Republic.

505
.
Thomas Mann, Briefe 1889–1936,
ed. Erika Mann (1961).

506
. Carl Helbling's review of
Thomas Mann, Briefe 1889–1936,
in the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
December 17, 1961.

507
. A cabaret opposing National Socialism, founded in Munich in 1933 by Klaus Mann, Erika Mann, and Therese Giehse.

508
. The National Front, adherents of Hitler.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HERMANN HESSE'S WORKS IN AMERICAN TRANSLATION

(Unless otherwise indicated, published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Most translations have been frequently reprinted and reissued in paperback.)

Autobiographical Writings.
Ed., and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Trans. Denver Lindley. 1972.

Beneath the Wheel.
Trans. Michael Roloff. 1968.

Crisis: Pages from a Diary.
Trans. Ralph Manheim. 1975.

Demian.
Trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

Gertrude.
Trans. Hilda Rosner. 1969.

The Glass Bead Game.
Trans. Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.

The Hesse-Mann Letters: The Correspondence of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann.
Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Hours in the Garden and Other Poems.
Trans. Rika Lesser. 1979.

If the War Goes On
 …
Reflections on War and Politics.
Trans. Ralph Manheim. 1971.

The Journey to the East.
Trans. Hilda Rosner. 1968.

Knulp.
Trans. Ralph Manheim. 1971.

Klingsor's Last Summer.
Trans. Richard and Clara Winston. 1970.

My Belief: Essays on Life and Art.
Ed., and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Trans. Denver Lindley and Ralph Manheim. 1974.

Narcissus and Goldmund.
Trans. Ursule Molinaro. 1968.

Peter Camenzind.
Trans. Michael Roloff. 1969.

Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies.
Ed., and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Trans. Rika Lesser. 1982.

Poems.
Trans. James Wright. 1970.

Reflections.
Selected from Hesse's books and letters by Volker Michels. Trans. Ralph Manheim. 1974.

Rosshalde.
Trans. Ralph Manheim. 1970.

Siddhartha.
Trans. Hilda Rosner. New York: New Directions, 1951.

Steppenwolf.
Trans. Basil Creighton (1929); rev. Joseph Mileck and Horst Frenz. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.

Stories of Five Decades.
Ed., and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Trans. Ralph Manheim and Denver Lindley. 1972.

Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales.
Trans. Denver Lindley. 1972.

Tales of Student Life.
Ed., and with an introduction, by Theodore Ziolkowski. Trans. Ralph Manheim. 1976.

Wandering: Notes and Sketches.
Trans. James Wright. 1972.

All references to Hesse's works in German by volume and page refer to the twelve-volume
Werkausgabe:
Hermann Hesse,
Gesammelte Werke in zwölf Bänden,
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970.

INDEX

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Abel, F.

“Absage” (1933)

Ador, Gustav

Adorno, Theodor W.

aestheticism

Alien Police (Swiss)

Allies (WW II)

Alter, Georg

Amiet, Cuno

ancient Greeks

Andreä, Volkmar; letters to

anti-Semitism,
see
Jews

Antonescu, Ion

art

“Artists and Psychoanalysis” (1918)

“Attempt at Self-Justification, An” (1948)

At the Spa
(1925)

Auschwitz camp

Australia

Austria

Autobiographical Writings
(1972)

Baden, spa at

Ball, Emmy

Ball, Hugo; biography of Hesse; death of; letters to

Basel Missionary Society

Basel
National-Zeitung

Basler, Otto; letters to

Bauer, Gerhard

Bauernfeld Prize

Bayer, Hans

beauty

Becher, Johannes R.

Beheim-Schwarzbach, Martin

Belgium

Bellamy, Edward

Beneath the Wheel
(1906)

Bermann, Gottfried

Bernhard, Georg

Bernoulli, Marie,
see
Hesse, Mia

Bernus, Baroness Isa von

“Besinnung” (“Contemplation”)

Bhagavad-Gita

Bible, the

Birmer, Lily

“Birthday” (circular letter)

Bitzius, Albert (“Jeremias Gotthelf”)

Black Forest

Blessing, Oskar

Blossom Branch, The
(1945)

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Böcklin, Arnold

Bodmer, Anny

Bodmer, Elsy

Bodmer, Hans C.; death of; letters to

Bodmer, Hermann

Bodmer (Martin) Foundation

Bodmer, Paul

Böhmer, Gunter

Bonniers Litterära Magasin

Book Depot for German Prisoners of War, Publishing House of

Borel, Eugène

Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio

Boyd, Orr, Lord

Braun, Felix; letters to

Brecht, Bertolt

Breithaupt, Max

Brentano, Bernard von

Brod, Max

Bruder, Erhard, letters to

Brun, Fritz; letters to

Buber, Martin

Bucherer, Max

Buchwald, Reinhard

Buddha

Buddhism

Bulgaria

Bund, Der

Burckhardt, Jacob

Busch, Adolf

By-Ways
(1912)

“Caesarius von Heisterbach,”

Calw, Germany; Hesse made honorary citizen of; Hesse Museum at

“Calw Family Library, The”

Calw Missionary Press

Cantacuszène, Fritz von

capitalism

Carlsson, Anni

Carossa, Hans

Casa Camuzzi

Catholicism

Cervantes, Saavedra de

Ceylon

Childhood and Youth before Nineteen Hundred: Hermann Hesse in Letters and Documents 1877–1895
(1966)

China

Chodowiecki, Daniel

Chopin, Frederic