Hermann Hesse and his sister Adele, 1937 | Photo: Martin Hesse | ©Martin Hesse Erben
Lecture
Saturday 2 October 2021, 5.30 p.m. - Sala Boccadoro, Montagnola
Adele, Hermann Hesse's sister, two years his senior, was "the most enduring love" of his life, as he himself writes. At first glance, the contrasts between the siblings could not be greater: on the one hand, the well-behaved housewife, self-sacrificing daughter and dutiful wife of a priest, who spent much of her life in the province of Baden-Württemberg; on the other, the rebellious young man and later writer in crisis, who became famous and a public figure. Yet, there was an unusually intense and enduring emotional bond between the two, as can be inferred from their extensive, largely unpublished correspondence.
“She thought of me as being what she really was herself: the genius of the family,” is how Hesse describes his sister in retrospect.
Lecture by Regina Bucher, Director Museum Hermann Hesse Montagnola
In German. Free admission; voluntary donation.
Regina Bucher