Entertainment & Arts
Edmond Rostand meets Hermann Hesse at the Village Vanguard in “Miravel” at Sacred Fools.
Nov. 19, 2015
Books
Joelle Dumas, educator: “Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing” by A.S. Neill (Hart).
Jan. 17, 1999
HERMANN HESSE’S novel “Siddhartha” (Modern Library: 130 pp., $16.95) is a countercultural icon, a totem of youth in revolt.
July 16, 2006
Olympics
Bode Miller became the second American male to win an overall Alpine World Cup championship on Saturday at Lenzerheide, Switzerland, and Anja Paerson of Sweden became the first female to repeat since 1995.
March 14, 2005
Obituaries
He interrogated some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, including Hermann Goering, Albert Speer and Rudolph Hess. In his engineering career, he helped develop color television.
Oct. 14, 2009
California
Dr. Leonard M. Rosengarten, 78, a psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison in Germany after World War II.
May 17, 1997
West German writer Hubert Fichte died Saturday after a tumor operation, his wife Leonore said.
March 10, 1986
With a museum list that reads like a world atlas and works in seminal shows like the Museum of Modern Art’s “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Hubert Schmalix is no newcomer.
Sept. 16, 1988
Movies
Fred Haines, a writer and director who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptation of “Ulysses,” the highly experimental novel by James Joyce, and wrote and directed a film version of “Steppenwolf,” a tormented quest novel by Hermann Hesse, has died.
May 22, 2008
World & Nation
Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, died after hanging himself by wrapping an electrical cord around his neck, a British spokesman said today.
Aug. 18, 1987