Hermann Hesse - 100 Jahre Siddhartha/100 years of Siddhartha
Prange, Oliver / Steinert, Hajo / Moser, Horst / Zimmermann, Eva / Nobel, Peter / Abedi, Ehsan / Prange, Oliver / Kuschel, Karl-Josef / Lady Owen-Jones / Bucher, Regina / Andreae, Marc / Bucher, Regina / Hesse, Silver / Lindenberg, Udo / Hering, F.J. / Widmann, Gret / Venzago, Alberto / McBride, Will / Hesse, Martin / Mathis, Karl / Pedrett, Andreas / Acke, Tine / Abedi, Eshan
100 years ago, Hermann Hesse published his novel Siddhartha. The book would have fallen into oblivion after the author's death in 1962, if the hippies of the Flower Power movement in San Francisco had not declared Hesse one of their gurus. They gravitated to the mythologies of India and so Siddhartha came to be their revered text.
Hesse embarked upon a search for truth at an early stage, studying the great traditions - and he was also motivat...