Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

Nacimiento : 1877-07-02, Calw, Germany

Muerte : 1962-08-09

Historia

Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Hermann Hesse

Películas

Narciso y Goldmundo
Novel
En plena Edad Media, el rebelde Goldmundo es enviado a un monasterio por orden de su padre. Allí el joven conocerá a Narciso, un novicio inteligente, erudito y distante, dedicado por completo a la vida ascética. A partir de su encuentro, nacerá entre ambos una amistad única, eterna, puesta a prueba por el destino cuando éste tienda a separar sus caminos por formas de vidas opuestas.
Homecoming
Novel
August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August realizes that the narrow-mindedness of the Gerbersauer has by no means changed. Richer for an experience and a love, he leaves home a second time.
Ansatsu
Novel
"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. Max Demian is his childhood friend and mentor.
A Hard Passage
Novel
"This hand-drawn animation is based on a short story by Hermann Hesse THE HARD PASSAGE. It was produced at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 1980-81.The voice is my own and the sound score and recording is by Bob Stoloff. It won the award for best sound at the 5th World Festival of Animation in Zagreb, 1982." -D. Pies
Kinderseele
Story
A boy returns home from school, goes upstairs into his father's room where he steals sugared and dried figs out of his dad's chest of drawers. In spite of some remorse, he does not confess it to his father.
El lobo estepario
Novel
¿De qué extraño ángel o demonio está hecha nuestra personalidad? Qué fuerzas y pasiones ingobernables llevan y traen nuestro yo por tortuosos caminos, más allá de los límites de nuestra conciencia? ¿Por qué el personaje de esta historia que ve cómo decae la sociedad burguesa, carece de energía para oponerse a su destrucción? El espectador de esta película se sentirá atraído por la cautivante genialidad del autor del libro
Siddhartha
Novel
Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he had been seeking. The story is based on the best-selling novel by German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse.
Zachariah
Novel
Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.