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Hermann Hesse and women: mother and son

Saturday 30 September 2023
17:30 18:30

Fondazione Hermann Hesse 2 Ra Cürta Collina d'Oro, TI, 6926 Svizzera (map)

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Marie Hesse (1842-1902) © Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach

Reading

Saturday 30 September 2023, 17.30 · Sala Boccadoro, Montagnola

"Oh, if we were not missionary children," this sigh of the young Marie Gundert in the Basel mission house may also have been uttered by her son Hermann in his childhood and youth.

Marie's unusual life as a missionary in India, her work as a writer, her marriage to Johannes Hesse, and the relationship between mother and son will be explored in a dialogue between her texts and Hesse‘s. An attempt will be made to answer the question which Hermann Hesse poses in his early text Conversation with a Silent Man: "What do you comprehend when I say: my mother?"

Reading Bärbel Reetz and Ernst Süss.

In German. Entrance fee: «Pay What You Want» principle.