Nur wer liebt, ist lebendig

by Hermann Hesse, Volker Michels (Herausgeber)

Glück ist Liebe, nichts anderes«, schrieb Hermann Hesse 1918. »Wenn der Mensch gut sein kann, kann er es nur, wenn er Harmonie in sich selbst hat. Also wenn er liebt.« Ein knappes Fünftel aller Erzählungen Hermann Hesses sind Liebesgeschichten, und nahezu jedes zehnte seiner Gedichte ist ein Liebesgedicht. Doch erst vor wenigen Jahren wurden die hier versammelten Liebesgeschichten aus dem Frühwerk Hermann Hesses entdeckt: Sie zeigen den vitalisierenden Antrieb der Liebe und ihre phantasiebeflügelnde Dynamik.

Genres: Short Stories

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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.