Kasper Hauser was a boy who spent his life trapped in a cramp dungeon, subsisting on bread and water and sleeping on a bed made of straw. At age 16, a mystery person handed Hauser two letters and ...

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. CNN values your feedback 1.

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 ...

The study centers on Kaspar Hauser, a youth who appeared "seemingly out of nowhere" in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria state, southern Germany, on May 26, 1828.

So reads the headstone (translated from Latin) marking the grave of the enigmatic man known as Kaspar Hauser, who died in 1833. Nearly 200 years later, scientists have finally solved a ...

I have just posted my translation of one of Georg Trakl’s poems, The Song of Kaspar Hauser from the collection published posthumously in 1915 entitled Sebastian im Traum (Sebastian Dreaming.)The ...

Elizabeth Swados has always gone her own way, and her new music-theater piece, "Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera," is stamped with some of her familiar idiosyncrasies: the childlike perspective ...

The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser): Film Review. Don't ask what any of Davide Manuli's cryptic story is supposed to mean in this German youth film starring Vincent Gallo.

Kaspar Hauser, shown here in a undated portrait based on a painting by Johann Friedrich Carl Kreul, appeared seemingly out of nowhere at about age 16 in what's now Nuremberg, Germany, in May 1828.