Hotel Waldhaus Spa, Via Da Fex 3, 7514 Sils / Segl Maria
The Sils Hesse Days 2026 are themed "Literature as Therapy".
Program
Thursday, June 11
4:45 p.m. Welcome Aperitif
5:30 p.m. Opening Lecture: Mikhail Shishkin: "We must read Dostoevsky when we are miserable." Hesse and Dostoevsky
9:15 p.m. Evening Event: Staged Musical Reading: "The Violinist of the Century, Fritz Kreisler, as Reflected in His Contemporary Hermann Hesse" A Report Between Fiction and Reality.
Friday, June 12
9:15 a.m. Volker Michels: "If you've had enough of the torture, become a spa guest"
11:00 a.m. Martin Ahrends: Literary Perspectives on Hesse and His Time
2:30 p.m. Anna-Cristina Chatzinikolaou (Young Researcher): Autofictional Illness Narratives and Hermann Hesse
Saturday, June 13
9:15 a.m. Karl-Josef Kuschel: Monasteries – Places of Repression and Longing. On the Ambivalence of the Monastic in the Work of Hermann Hesse
11:00 a.m. Céline Burget: "He, too, was a seducer." Strategies of Suggestion and Manipulation in Hermann Hesse's "Demian"
5:00 PM Régine Battiston: Correspondence as Therapy: Hermann Hesse and his Psychoanalyst Josef Bernhard Lang
9:00 PM "Organ Playing" (Recitation & Organ) in the Open Church Sils
Sunday, June 14
9:15 AM Philipp Theisohn: Hermann Hesse as a Therapist and the Therapized Poet – A Synthesis
11:00 AM Farewell Reception
Only conference passes are available online. Tickets for individual lectures can be purchased on site.
Thursday, June 11
4:45 p.m. Welcome Aperitif
5:30 p.m. Opening Lecture: Mikhail Shishkin: "We must read Dostoevsky when we are miserable." Hesse and Dostoevsky
9:15 p.m. Evening Event: Staged Musical Reading: "The Violinist of the Century, Fritz Kreisler, as Reflected in His Contemporary Hermann Hesse" A Report Between Fiction and Reality.
Friday, June 12
9:15 a.m. Volker Michels: "If you've had enough of the torture, become a spa guest"
11:00 a.m. Martin Ahrends: Literary Perspectives on Hesse and His Time
2:30 p.m. Anna-Cristina Chatzinikolaou (Young Researcher): Autofictional Illness Narratives and Hermann Hesse
Saturday, June 13
9:15 a.m. Karl-Josef Kuschel: Monasteries – Places of Repression and Longing. On the Ambivalence of the Monastic in the Work of Hermann Hesse
11:00 a.m. Céline Burget: "He, too, was a seducer." Strategies of Suggestion and Manipulation in Hermann Hesse's "Demian"
5:00 PM Régine Battiston: Correspondence as Therapy: Hermann Hesse and his Psychoanalyst Josef Bernhard Lang
9:00 PM "Organ Playing" (Recitation & Organ) in the Open Church Sils
Sunday, June 14
9:15 AM Philipp Theisohn: Hermann Hesse as a Therapist and the Therapized Poet – A Synthesis
11:00 AM Farewell Reception
Only conference passes are available online. Tickets for individual lectures can be purchased on site.
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