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== References in popular culture ==
Hesse's 1928 short story "Harry, the Steppenwolf" forms a companion piece to the novel. It is about a wolf named Harry who is kept in a zoo and entertains crowds by destroying images of German cultural icons such as Goethe and Mozart.

A paragraph in Hesse's 1943 novel ''[[The Glass Bead Game]]'' says that "magic theater" is another name of the glass bead game itself.

The name ''Steppenwolf'' has become notable in popular culture for various organizations and establishments. 

* In 1967, the band [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]], headed by German-born singer [[John Kay (musician)|John Kay]], took its name from the novel.
* The Belgian band [[DAAU]] (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) is named after one of the advertising slogans of the novel's magical theatre. 
* The innovative [[Magic Theatre]] Company, founded in 1967 in Berkeley and later resident in San Francisco, takes its name from the "Magic Theatre" of the novel
* The [[Steppenwolf Theatre Company]] in [[Chicago]], founded in 1974 by actors [[Terry Kinney]], [[Jeff Perry (American actor)|Jeff Perry]], and [[Gary Sinise]], took its name from the novel. 
* The lengthy track "Steppenwolf" appears on English rock band [[Hawkwind]]'s album ''[[Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music]]'' and is directly inspired by the novel, including references to the magic theatre and the dual nature of the wolfman-manwolf (lutocost). [[Robert Calvert]] initially wrote and performed the lyrics on "Distances Between Us" by Adrian Wagner in 1974. The song also appears on later, live [[Hawkwind]] CDs and DVDs.
* Danish acid rock band [[Steppeulvene]] also took its name from the novel.
* The song ''Magic Dragon Theater'' from [[Utopia (band)|Utopia's]] 1977 album [[Ra (Utopia album)|RA]], by [[Todd Rundgren]] and [[Kasim Sulton]], alludes to Harry Haller's visit to the Magic Theater.
* "He Was a Steppenwolf" is a song by [[Boney M.]] from the album ''[[Nightflight to Venus]]''.
* [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] includes a quotation from ''Steppenwolf'' as an epigraph to his 1970 book ''[[Between Two Ages]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brzezinski|first1=Zbigniew|title=Between Two Ages|url=https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-z5FBdAnrFME2m1U4/Zbigniew%20Brzezinski%20-%20Between%20Two%20Ages_djvu.txt|website=archive.org|date=January 2014 |publisher=The Viking Press|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref>
* The [[United States of America (band)|United States of America]]'s eponymous album features the track "The American Metaphysical Circus", which has lyrical references to the novel ("And the price is right/The cost of one admission is your mind").
* ''[[Be Here Now (book)|Be Here Now]]'' (1971), by [[Ram Dass]], contains an illustration of a door bearing a sign that reads "Magic Theatre – For Madmen Only – Price of Admission – Your Mind". This references an invitation that Harry Haller receives to attend an "Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre, For Madmen Only, Price of Admission Your Mind".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.american-buddha.com/ramdass.snakepithumansuffer4.htm |title=Be Here Now &#91;FATHER-SUN&#93; – by Ram Dass |access-date=2013-04-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016202345/http://www.american-buddha.com/ramdass.snakepithumansuffer4.htm |archive-date=16 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://magictheatre.org/blog/3 |title=for madmen only - the blog |access-date=2013-04-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912001406/http://magictheatre.org/blog/3 |archive-date=12 September 2016 }}</ref>
* ''[[The Black Ice]]'', by [[Michael Connelly]], has J. Michael Haller making a reference to [[Hermann Hesse|the author]] when he says that, if his illegitimate son took his surname, he would be "Harry Haller" instead of [[Harry Bosch]].
* French singer [[Alizée]] sings her song "[[Gourmandises (song)|Gourmandises]]" to "le loup des steppes", literally "the wolf of the steppes" (2001).
* The high school team in [[Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin]] are the Steppenwolves.
* A character named [[Steppenwolf (character)|Steppenwolf]] was created by Jack Kirby for his DC Comics [[Fourth World]] saga, and appears in the film [[Zack Snyder's Justice League]].
* The composer and trombonist [[Christian Lindberg]] wrote a viola concerto subtitled ''Steppenwolf'' in 2011. It was recorded on BIS Records in 2018.{{cn|date=June 2024}}
* The Hungarian hip-hop producer, singer-songwriter, drummer, film director and animator HOLI released a song titled "Pusztai Farkas" ["Steppenwolf"] on his second album, "Levegő" ["Air"] in 2024, which has lyrical references to the novel.