"Defying Reality. Poetry as Resistance in Hermann Hesse"

Lecture by Dr. Volker Michels, editor of the works of Hermann Hesse at Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin

The ever-renewing attraction of this writer from generation to generation has many causes. One of them is the encouragement of our individuality in the face of external control and sensory overload, another is his resistance against opportunistic symbioses with the prevailing zeitgeist. In how many areas, not least against the demands of politics, Hesse's stance proves itself and what alternatives his writings offer, is described by the editor of the "Complete Works" of the poet at Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin. For information and registration, please contact the Tourist Information Gaienhofen at 07735/9999123 or touristinfo@gaienhofen.de.