text: One of this author's protagonists becomes a blacksmith's apprentice after his friend Heilner isexpelled from the Maulbronn seminary, then later gets drunk and drowns in a river.
full_question: One of this author's protagonists becomes a blacksmith's apprentice after his friend Heilner isexpelled from the Maulbronn seminary, then later gets drunk and drowns in a river. Another of hisprotagonists plans to commit suicide at age fifty, but is delayed by a chance visit to the Black EagleTavern, where he learns to dance and meets his future lover Maria. The pressures of academia crush (*)Hans Giebenrath in one of this man's novels, while in another, a jazz saxophonist named Pablo takes theprotagonist to a hall of mirrors inside the Magic Theater. The title character of another of his novels abandons hisfriend Govinda and falls in love with the beautiful Kamala. For 10 points, name this German author who createdHarry Haller in Steppenwolf and wrote Siddhartha.
first_sentence: One of this author's protagonists becomes a blacksmith's apprentice after his friend Heilner isexpelled from the Maulbronn seminary, then later gets drunk and drowns in a river.
raw_answer:  Hermann Hesse 