Geschichten aus dem Mittelalter.

by Hermann Hesse

"Das Gewand (dieser Geschichten) ist alt, der Inhalt ist nicht alt und nicht neu, sondern zeitlos und immer unserer neuen Teilnahme wert wie alles Menschliche."

Paperback

Published February 1, 1976

About the author

Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse.

Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.

Reviews

[Bruno Laschet]

Geschichten aus dem Mittelalter sind (wie sollte es auch anders sein) religiöse Erzählen aus Klöstern von Mönchen. Hermann Hesse hat diese gesammelt und durch eigene Geschichten ergänzt. War mir dann "zu viel Religion". Hatte auch noch andere Geschichten aus dem Leben in dieser Zeit erwartet.