Zarathustras wiederkehr hermann hesse biography

1877Born July 2 in Calw, Württemberg, second child of Johannes and Marie (née Gundert) Hesse.1881-1886Basle, where Johannes Hesse was teaching.1886The family returns to Calw.1890-1891Attends the preparatory school in Göppingen.1891Passes the Swabian Landexamen in July.1891-1892Attends the Maulbronn Seminary.1892Runs away from Maulbronn in March.

From May onwards attends various schools (Bad Boll, Stetten im Remstal, Basle).1892-1893Attends the Gymnasium in Bad Cannstatt.1893-1894Gives up a bookshop apprenticeship and assists his father in Calw.1894-1895Apprentice mechanic in Heinrich Perrot's clock workshops, Calw.1895-1898Apprentice in a Tübingen bookshop.1898-1899Promoted to assistant.1899Romantische Lieder.

Eine Stunde hinter Mitternacht.1899-1903Works in a Basle bookshop. Travels in Switzerland.1901First Italian journey (Florence, Ravenna, Venice). Hinterlassene Schr