Editing Hermann Hesse (section)

=== Casa Camuzzi ===
By the time Hesse returned to civilian life in 1919, his marriage had fallen apart. His wife, Maria, had a severe episode of [[psychosis]], but, even after her recovery, Hesse saw no possible future with her. Their home in Bern was divided, their children were accommodated in boarding houses and by relatives,<ref>Zeller, p. 93</ref> and Hesse resettled alone in the middle of April in [[Ticino]]. He occupied a small farmhouse near Minusio (close to Locarno), living from 25 April to 11 May in Sorengo. On 11 May, he moved to the town [[Montagnola]] and rented four small rooms in a castle-like building, the Casa Camuzzi. Here, he explored his writing projects further; he began to paint, an activity reflected in his next major story, "[[Klingsor's Last Summer]]", published in 1920. This new beginning in different surroundings brought him happiness, and Hesse later called his first year in Ticino "the fullest, most prolific, most industrious and most passionate time of my life".<ref>Zeller, p. 94</ref> In 1922, Hesse's novella ''[[Siddhartha (novel)|Siddhartha]]'' appeared, which showed the love for Indian culture and Buddhist philosophy that had already developed earlier in his life. In 1924, Hesse married the singer Ruth Wenger, the daughter of the Swiss writer [[Lisa Wenger]] and aunt of [[Méret Oppenheim]]. This marriage was short-lived, and they divorced in 1927.

In 1923, Hesse was granted Swiss citizenship.<ref name="Hesse 1946">{{Cite web|last=Hesse|first=Hermann|date=1946|title=Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1946/hesse/biographical/|access-date=2022-01-08|website=The Nobel Prize}}</ref> His next major works, ''Kurgast'' (1925) and ''The Nuremberg Trip'' (1927), were autobiographical narratives with ironic undertones and foreshadowed Hesse's following novel, ''[[Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'', which was published in 1927. In the year of his 50th birthday, the first biography of Hesse appeared, written by his friend [[Hugo Ball]]. Shortly after his new successful novel, he turned away from the solitude of ''Steppenwolf'' and started a cohabitation with art historian [[Ninon Hesse|Ninon Dolbin]], née Ausländer.<ref name="Mileck 1978">{{Cite book|last=Mileck|first=Joseph|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3804203|title=Hermann Hesse : life and art|date=1978|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-03351-5|location=Berkeley|oclc=3804203|page=243}}</ref> This change to companionship was reflected in the novel ''[[Narcissus and Goldmund]]'', appearing in 1930.