Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Muna 1881, apo Hesse akanga ane makore mana, mhuri yakatamira kuBasel, Switzerland, ichigara kwemakore matanhatu ndokuzodzokera kuCalw. Pashure pokupinda zvinobudirira paChikoro chechiLatin muGöppingen, Hesse akapinda Evangelical Theological Seminary yeMaulbronn Abbey muna 1891. Vadzidzi vaigara nokudzidza paimba yavanabhishopi, imwe yenzvimbo dzakanaka zvikuru uye dzakachengetedzwa zvakanaka muGermany, vachiita maawa 41 echikoro pavhiki. Kunyange zvazvo Hesse akaita zvakanaka mumwedzi yokutanga, achinyora mutsamba kuti ainyanya kunakidzwa nokunyora mifananidzo uye kushandura nhetembo dzechiGiriki dzekare muchiGerman, nguva yake muMaulbronn yakanga iri kutanga kwenhamo huru yomunhu oga. Muna March 1892, Hesse akaratidza chimiro chake chokupandukira, uye, pane imwe nhambo, akatiza Seminari ndokuwanwa mumunda zuva rakatevera. Hesse akatanga rwendo kuburikidza nemasangano akasiyana-siyana uye zvikoro uye akasangana nekukakavadzana kwakasimba nevabereki vake. Muna May, pashure pokuedza kuzviuraya, akapedza nguva ari pane imwe nzvimbo muBad Boll achitarisirwa nomufundisi uye mushumiri Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt. Gare gare, akaiswa muchipatara chepfungwa muStetten im Remstal, uye ipapo muchipatara chevakomana muBasel. Pakupera kwa 1892, akapinda Gymnasium muCannstatt, zvino chikamu cheStuttgart. Muna 1893, akapasa bvunzo dzegore rimwe, dzakapedza dzidzo yake. Mugore iroro, akatanga kupedza nguva neshamwari dzake dzaiva dzakura kwaari uye akatanga kunwa nokusvuta. Pashure peizvi, Hesse akatanga kudzidza basa muchitoro chemabhuku muEsslingen am Neckar, asi akarega pashure pemazuva matatu. Ipapo, mukuvamba kwezhizha ra 1894, akavamba kosi yemwedzi 14 yokufunda kugadzira michina pafekitari yechivako chewachi muCalw. Basa rakaoma rokunama nokuronga zvinhu rakaita kuti atange kuita zvinhu zvine chokuita nokunamata. Muna October 1895, akanga akagadzirira kutanga nomwoyo wose basa idzva rokudzidzira basa nomutengesi wamabhuku muTübingen. Ichi chiitiko kubva pauduku hwake, zvikurukuru nguva yake yaakapedza paSeminary muMaulbronn, anodzokera gare gare mubhuku rake rinonzi Beneath the Wheel.  Mubvunzo: Akatanga rini kudzidza kuva makanika?
Muna 1894