Monte Verità: 1900 - der Traum vom alternativen Leben beginnt

Synopsis of Monte Verità: 1900 - der Traum vom alternativen Leben beginnt

«Monte Verità: 1900 - der Traum vom alternativen Leben beginnt» is the historical essay by Stefan Bollmann, published by Pantheon Verlag in paperback.

In 1900, a group of young people founded the Monte Verità commune in Ascona, on Lake Maggiore. Bollmann recounts how they sought an authentic life through veganism, free dance and free love, and how that utopia attracted Hermann Hesse, Erich Mühsam and Marianne von Werefkin, becoming an emblem of the first great modern counterculture.

Text in German; 315 pages. Paperback edition published by Pantheon Verlag in April 2019.

For readers interested in cultural history, utopias and alternative movements of the early twentieth century.