26th Sils Hesse Days
Overview
Intro
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.
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Sils Tourist Information
Sils Tourist Information Via da Marias 38 7514 Sils +41 81 838 50 50 |
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| Event Homepage | https://www.engadin.ch/de/sils |
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Tagungspass Erwachsene: CHF 220.00
Tagungspass Jugendliche/Studierende: CHF 100.00
Einzelveranstaltung Erwachsene: CHF 30.00
Einzelveranstaltung Jugendliche/Studierende: CHF 20.00
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Event dates
- 12 June 2026
- 13 June 2026
- 14 June 2026
Discover the surroundings
Hallenbad Hotel Waldhaus
Via da Fex 3
7514
Sils / Segl Maria
Switzerland
Phone
+41 (0)81 835 51 00
mail@waldhaus-sils.ch
waldhaus-sils.ch