"Life of the Woman ..."

Mia Hesse, née Bernoulli: Everyday Life in Gaienhofen alongside Hermann Hesse At the age of 35, Mia marries the 26-year-old Hermann Hesse and moves with him to Gaienhofen, a place she has chosen herself. She exchanges the familiar urban environment of her hometown Basel for a secluded life in the countryside by Hermann's side as his wife and the mother of their three children. How does she cope with these upheavals, what drives her, what was her daily life like, and what difficulties did she face? Longings, joys, and disappointments are revealed through a tour of her room and other spaces she used, as insights from her letters to Hermann from that time: A woman's life around 1900 in the shadow of a gifted man. A tour led by women, not just for women.