In Focus: The Nietzsche Archive in Weimar
Author(s): Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Ed.)
English edition
Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche not only looked after her ill brother but also exploited the cult-like admiration the philosopher enjoyed for her own ends and installed the Nietzsche Archive in the building. Initially very popular amongst Europe's avant-garde later Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche allowed the archive to be instrumentalized by the National Socialists before it became a taboo topic in the GDR. Featuring many colored illustrations, the book relates the turbulent history of a memorial that reflects the ambivalence of modernism.
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- : De Gruyter, Inc.
- : 01 April 2023
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- : Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Ed.)
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- : English
- : 136