Julie Hellmann · © Hermann Hesse-Editionsarchiv, Offenbach am Main

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Hermann Hesse and women: «Lulu» – A childhood love becomes literature
Conference and reading

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Saturday 15 October 2022, 17.30 · Sala Boccadoro, Montagnola

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In the summer of 1899, the young Hermann Hesse meets the beautiful waitress Julie Hellmann, known as "Lulu". With letters, photographs and literary texts from Hesse's legacy, we will tell the story of an impossible love from two perspectives - one from Hesse's position and the other through Julie Hellmann's eyes.

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With Gunilla Eschenbach and Matthias Schuppli.

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In German. Free entry, voluntary donation.

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Gunilla Eschenbach

Matthias Schuppli