Ninon Hesse

Ninon Hesse , previously Ninon Dolbin , born foreigner (born September 18, 1895 in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary ; died September 22, 1966 in Montagnola , Switzerland ), was an art historian and the third wife of Hermann Hesse .

Life

Ninon Ausländer was born as the daughter of a Jewish lawyer in Chernivtsi and studied archeology , art history and medicine in Vienna . In 1918 she married the Viennese artist Benedikt Fred Dolbin , from whom she separated again in 1920. The divorce took place shortly before her marriage to Hermann Hesse, whom she finally married on November 14, 1931.

As early as 1910 after reading Peter Camenzind , she wrote to Hesse, and in 1922 she got to know him personally. In 1927 she sold her house in Vienna and moved to Montagnola to live with Hermann Hesse in Casa Camuzzi . From 1931 she and Hesse lived in Casa Hesse , a kind of semi-detached house on the southern outskirts of the village , the two parts of which were internally connected and each of the partners allowed their own living space. While accompanying her husband's literary work, she pursued her own art-historical interests and worked on archaeological trips abroad, some of which lasted several months.

Her grave is with Hermann Hesses in the Gentilino cemetery .

literature

• Ninon Hesse: Dear, dear bird. Letters to Hermann Hesse. ed. by Gisela Kleine . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000; ibid. 2002, ISBN 3-518-39873-3 .
• Gisela Kleine: Ninon and Hermann Hesse. Life as dialogue. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-2016-3 .
  • New edition as: Between the world and the magic garden. Ninon and Hermann Hesse - a life in dialogue. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-37884-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ninon Hesse in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ninon Hesse Bibliography on worldcat.org/identities/