1877
Born in Calw/Württemberg/Germany, on 2nd July
1895-1898
Book dealer apprenticeship in Tübingen/Germany
1896
First publication of his own poems
1899
Moves to Basle/Switzerland, continues to work as an apprentice in a book shop until 1903
1915
Works for the Prisoners of War Welfare Organization in Bern/Switzerland; (its primary function was to provide German prisoners in France and in America, as well as those interned in Switzerland, with books and small libraries); numerous invocations against racial hatred
1916-17
Gets psychotherapeutical treatment by J. B. Lang after a nervous breakdown; begins to paint
1920
First exhibition of his watercolours at Kunsthalle Basel/ Switzerland
1936
Press campaign against Hesse in Germany, where at the latest since 1939, the beginning of World War II , Hesse is considered as an “undiserable author"
1946
Nobel prize for literature and Goethe prize of the city of Frankfurt/Germany
1955
Peace prize of the German Bookdealers Association
1956
Creation of the Hermann Hesse Prize
1962
Hermann Hesse dies in Montagnola/Ticino/Switzerland on August 9th