This of course comes so close to the tale of Kaspar Hauser that it is hard to see the song as a literary affectation. Trakl’s own life is the life of Kaspar Hauser; he feels it. And that adds to the ...

One of the undisputed masterworks of the New German Cinema, Werner Herzog’s The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (its German title translates as “Everyone for himself, and God against all”), which ...

This week marks 190 years since Kaspar Hauser was stabbed in the Hofgarten of the Ansbach residence on December 14th, 1833. He died three days later, cementing his status as German history’s ...

When teenage orphan Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering around a public square in Nuremberg, Germany in 1828, it sparked an enduring 200-year mystery. Unable to read or write, Hauser claimed to ...

It was known that Charles had a son, who died as an infant in 1812. The Kaspar Hauser conspiracy theory, therefore, hinged on the idea that Charles’ child had been swapped out with a dying ...

Above the grave of Kaspar Hauser — a strange real-life 16-year-old foundling who appeared suddenly in Nuremberg in 1828 and was stabbed to death five years later — is this cryptic epitaph ...

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries after his mysterious appearance.

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries after his mysterious appearance.

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries after his mysterious appearance.