Background
Ninon Ausländer was born to a Jewish lawyer in Czernowitz and studied archaeology, art history and medicine in Vienna, Austria.
Ninon Ausländer was born to a Jewish lawyer in Czernowitz and studied archaeology, art history and medicine in Vienna, Austria.
Although she had written a letter to Hesse after reading his novel Peter Camenzind in 1910, she only met him in 1922. Ninon Hesse played an important role in Hermann Hesse"s life not only as the love of his life, but also as she helped him to continue with his work when his eyes got weak by reading to him and writing for him and by collecting and editing his writings and letters after his death in 1962.