Editing Hermann Hesse (section)

=== Family life on Lake Constance and travels to South and Southeast Asia ===
[[File:Hermann Hesse.jpg|thumb|1905 portrait by Ernst Würtenberger (1868–1934)]]
[[File:Hermann Hesse Desk Museum Gaienhofen.jpeg|thumb|Hesse's writing desk, pictured at the Museum Gaienhofen]]
Having realised he could make a living as a writer, Hesse finally married Maria Bernoulli (of the [[Bernoulli family|famous family of mathematicians]]<ref>Gustav Emil Müller, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WklYtBo4XpsC Philosophy of Literature]'', Ayer Publishing, 1976.</ref>) in 1904, while her father, who disapproved of their relationship, was away for the weekend. The couple settled down in [[Gaienhofen]] on [[Lake Constance]], and began a family, eventually having three sons. In Gaienhofen, he wrote his second novel, ''[[Beneath the Wheel]]'', which was published in 1906. In the following time, he composed primarily short stories and poems. His story "The Wolf", written in 1906–07, was "quite possibly" a foreshadowing of ''[[Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]''.<ref>Freedman (1978) p. 140.</ref>

His next novel, ''[[Gertrud (novel)|Gertrude]]'', published in 1910, revealed a production crisis. He had to struggle through writing it and would later describe it as "a miscarriage". Gaienhofen was the place where Hesse's interest in [[Buddhism]] was re-sparked. Following a letter to Kapff in 1895 entitled ''Nirvana'', Hesse had ceased alluding to Buddhist references in his work. In 1904, however, [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] and his philosophical ideas started receiving attention again, and Hesse discovered [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|theosophy]]. Schopenhauer and theosophy renewed Hesse's interest in India. Although it was many years before the publication of Hesse's ''Siddhartha'' (1922), this masterpiece was to be derived from these new influences.

During this time, there also was increased dissonance between him and Maria, and in 1911 Hesse left for a long trip to [[Sri Lanka]] and [[Indonesia]]. He also visited Borneo and Burma, but "the physical experience ... was to depress him".<ref>Freedman (1978) p. 149</ref> Any spiritual or religious inspiration that he was looking for eluded him,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/hermann-hesses-arrested-development|title=Hermann Hesse's arrested development|first=Adam|last=Kirsch|magazine=The New Yorker|date=19 November 2018|access-date=4 March 2019}}</ref> but the journey made a strong impression on his literary work. Following Hesse's return, the family moved to [[Bern]] (1912), but the change of environment could not solve the marriage problems, as he himself confessed in his novel ''[[Rosshalde]]'' from 1914.