Move within Montagnola into a new house, the Casa Rossa, where Hesse will live for the rest of his life.
He marries Ninon Dolbin.
Hesse leaves the Prussian Academy of Arts.

Die Morgenlandfahrt [Journey to the East] appears.
Hesse begins writing Das Glasperlenspiel [The Glass Bead Game],whichhe will be working  for11years. The various chapters of this book are published one by one on magazines until 1942, year of its accomplishment.

During the 12 years of Hitler's dictatorship in Germany, Hesse and his wife  try to help  refugees and  persecuted Jews with money, a home, and above all by requesting travelling documents, visa and working permits, etc.

Hesse becomes a member of the Swiss Club of Poets for better protection from the Nazi cultural policies and for more efficient possibilities of intervention for emigrated colleagues.

Gottfried-Keller-Prize of the Martin Bodmer Foundation in Zurich.
Stunden im Garten is published.

Hesse' works are declared undesirable in Germany and therefore cannot be published anymore.

The first unabridged edition of  Das Glasperlenspiel [The Glass Bead Game] is printed in Switzerland.

Hesse is awarded the Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt and the Nobel Prize for literature.

Honorary Doctorate from the University fo Bern.

Hesse spends every summer in Sils-Maria in Engadina.

Hesse receives the Wilhelm Raabe Peace Prize of the German bookdealers.