NMLP P-045377 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Demian

Hermann Hesse · S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin · 1919

Hesse's authorship was publicly exposed in 1920 (by Otto Flake and Eduard Korrodi), after which the attribution was corrected and Hesse returned the Fontane Prize he had won as a supposed first-time author; the tenth edition was the first to carry Hesse's own name and the expanded title 'Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend.' The novel had first appeared serially in Die Neue Rundschau (February–April 1919) before separate book publication that June

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045377 for "Demian" by Hermann Hesse (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045377, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).