Friedrich Nietzsche College

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The Friedrich Nietzsche College of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is an institution in the humanities that is dedicated to the initiation, promotion and dissemination of contemporary cultural studies, epistemological and philosophical reflections. Institutionally, it belongs to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and is headquartered in the “Villa Silberblick” in Weimar , the former Nietzsche archive at Humboldtstrasse 36. The college was based on the model of its Parisian cooperation partner, the Collège international de philosophie around Jacques Derrida and is valid as one of the most renowned think tanks in Germany.

history

The Friedrich Nietzsche College was founded on October 15, 1999, the 155th birthday of Friedrich Nietzsche - within the framework of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and in the space of the Bauhaus University Weimar (Oberlichtsaal). Since then, the college has been located in the house of the former Nietzsche archive , where Nietzsche lived in the last years of his life.

“Because I live in Nietzsche's villa! From there I am writing to you now. I have a lovely room with a veranda;
From one side you can see Weimar and the garden, where the sick Nietzsche must have gone for a walk. [...]
It doesn't matter that everything that has to do with Nietzsche has disappeared; the place is still holy. "
( Mazzino Montinari to Giorgio Colli in April 1961)

It all began in 1993 with a memorial conference for Mazzino Montinari organized by Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály . He lived in the Nietzsche archive in Weimar in the 1960s and (together with Giorgio Colli) worked out the first historical-critical Nietzsche edition without distortions and forgeries, which is the scientific standard today. Vis-à-vis a GDR, in which Nietzsche was regarded as a non-person until the end, Montinari showed, as a member of the Communist Party of Italy, which is distanced from the Soviet model, what freedom of those who think differently means. Between 1993 and 1995, eight international conferences were held under the motto "Discover and betray" , which established Weimar as a place for international Nietzsche research. The breadth of the horizon was reflected in events such as “From the Blessing of Illness - To Nietzsche Reception in Medicine, Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (1997), “Non-War - Between War and Peace” (2007), “Media and Power” ( 2008) or »non-work« (2009). The founding of the Nietzsche Forum within the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar in 1996, to whose conferences scientists from almost all European countries came, was followed by the establishment of the Nietzsche Kolleg in 1999.

In 2009 the college celebrated its tenth anniversary in a four-day festival on the subject of "Notes on the Spiritual Situation of Our Time" . a. with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Julian Nida-Rümelin . In January 2010, the mayor of the city of Weimar, Stefan Wolf, awarded the college the award "Weimar - Place of Diversity", and in February the newly founded association of Fellows of the college Friedrich Nietzsche e. V. with a reading and a press conference to the public. Since 2000, the college has been a cooperation partner of the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar and, since 2010, of the Institute for Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

management

Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály is the director of the Friedrich Nietzsche College of the Weimar Classic Foundation and its founder . From his work as a freelancer for the Weimarer Klassik Foundation (since 1993), the Friedrich Nietzsche College was founded in October 1999.

In 2002 he received the “Premio Internazionale Federico Nietzsche” from the “Associazione Internazionale di Studi e Ricerche Federico Nietzsche” (Palermo, Italy) for his initiative to found and develop the college. Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály has researched and published extensively on Nietzsche's work (including with Mazzino Montinari in Florence), and at the same time is committed to communicating Nietzsche's scientific work as a “leading figure” of modernity to a broader, interested public.

program

With its institutional self-image, the college tries to build on openness, complexity, intellectual honesty and controversy as characteristics of Nietzsche's philosophy. Inspired by the thinking of the philosopher and his problematic and fascinating European history of impact, the college sees itself as a productive and creative place for the discourse on contemporary problems of man and society.

Furthermore, the college deals with general questions of German cultural and intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries, organizes colloquia, encourages publications and research projects and supports projects on these topics from other organizers. In cooperation with the institutes of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the organizational, methodological and intellectual orientation of such a focus is also one of the tasks of the college.

In addition, there are efforts to scientifically reconstruct the history of the historical Nietzsche archive in terms of culture and philosophy. Nietzsche's “Typewriter Texts” have already been published in this context.

The Friedrich Nietzsche College sees itself, to take up a word from Fellow Dieter Henrich , as an intellectual point of concentration and intersection, at the center of which should be on the one hand critical reflection on the present and on the other hand productive exploration of the ground and the future. The college has invited thinkers from different national, theoretical and philosophical backgrounds to a superordinate series of lectures "On Thinking the World" .

Another special item on the program is the Weimar thinks philosophical festival , which has been taking place every two years in the heart of Weimar since 2009 and tries to open up philosophy to a wider audience.

Fellowships

Fellows can become scientists as well as intellectuals, writers, publicists or artists. The possible academic graduation does not play the most important role in the selection of the fellow, but criteria such as intellectual and aesthetic productivity and originality. A distinction must be made between “fellows” (also “large fellows” ), who are invited to Weimar for a few lectures, seminars or workshops, and “fellows in residence” , who live for several weeks or months as guests of the college in Nietzsche's former home work. The aim of both types of fellowship is to present current political, cultural and scientific debates to the Weimar public and thus to give intellectual impulses to the scientific landscape. In particular, the fellows in residence should be systematically integrated into the local networks of the scientific community for the duration of their stay . In 2010, a doctoral fellowship was awarded in cooperation with the Institute for Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

The Distinguished Fellows of the Friedrich Nietzsche College

The Fellows in Residence of the Friedrich Nietzsche College

Babette Babich, Matthias Bormuth , Steffen Dietzsch , Ulrike Eichler, Hanna Engelmeier, Daniel von Fromberg, Bettina Funcke, Gunnar Decker , Jörg Gleiter, Henning Hahn, Heike Hanada, Anne von der Heiden , Dai Hui, Reinhold Jaretzky , Tom Kehrbaum, Duncan Large , Harry Lehmann, Mario Marino, Tracie Matysik, Michael Mayer, Łukasz Musiał, Peter Peinzger, Tommaso Pierini, Marina Sawall, Martin Jörg Schäfer, Donata Schoeller, Martin Schüler, Tove Soiland , Erna Strnisa, Udo Tietz, Martin Vialon, Susanne Wagner, Martin G. Weiss, Johannes Weiß, Stefan Wilke , Claudia Wirsing, Ernest Zenko, Jörg Zimmer

Writings from the Friedrich Nietzsche College

The series "Writings from the Friedrich Nietzsche College" , edited by Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály, has been published by the Bauhaus University Weimar since 2005 . So far published:

  • Self esteem or recognition. Edited by Henning Hahn. Weimar 2005.
  • Limits of Thought - Twelve conversations between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, medicine, psychiatry, German studies, neurophysiology, art, and media studies. Edited by Donata Schoeller u. Matthias Michel. With the collaboration of Inga von Staden. Weimar 2007.
  • Hegel and Nietzsche. A philosophical-literary encounter. Edited by Klaus Vieweg u. Richard T. Gray. Weimar 2007.
  • Jean Baudrillard: The event. Weimar 2007.
  • Babette Babich: "One god's happiness full of power and love" - ​​contributions to Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Heidegger. Weimar 2009.
  • Duncan Large: Nietzsche's Renaissance Figures. Shakespeare, Copernicus, Luther. Weimar 2009.
  • On Nietzsche's balcony. Fellows in residence at the Friedrich Nietzsche College. Edited by Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály with the assistance of Marina Sawall. Weimar 2009.
  • Bibliography of the Friedrich Nietzsche College 1993–2009. Edited by Marina Sawall. Weimar 2009.
  • "The lucky ones are curious" - Friedrich Nietzsche College for ten years. Edited by Julia Wagner u. Stefan Wilke. Weimar 2009.
  • Not work. Politics, concepts, aesthetics. Edited by Jörn Etzold u. Martin Jörg Schäfer . Weimar 2010.
  • Modernity and Historicity. Edited by Stefan Wilke . Weimar 2011.
  • Universalism. Edited by Klaus Vieweg . Weimar 2011.
  • Natural aesthetics intercultural. Based on the aesthetic cultural configuration in Japan. Edited by Ryôsuke Ôhashi. Weimar 2011.
  • On Nietzsche's balcony 2. Philosophical contributions from Villa Silberblick. Edited by Claudia Wirsing . Weimar 2012.
  • The curiosity of the lucky one. A commemorative publication for the founder of the Friedrich Nietzsche College. With contributions by Ágnes Heller , Gianni Vattimo , Peter Sloterdijk u. a. Edited by Bert-Christoph Streckhardt. Weimar, 2012.
  • The state of emergency as the rule. A balance sheet of critical theory. With contributions by Christa and Peter Bürger , Rolf Wiggershaus , Martin Jay , Wolfgang Kraushaar , Alfred Schmidt , Christoph Menke , Martin Seel , Axel Honneth , Oskar Negt , Albrecht Wellmer and Sigrid Weigel . Edited by Jan Urbich , Claudia Wirsing and Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály . Weimar, 2013.

In the context of the lectures in Weimar, numerous other volumes and contributions were also produced by the fellows of the college.

Cooperation and project partners (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nietzsche archive of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  2. ↑ Thinking That Goes in Search by Dieter Henrich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton supplement, No. 14 v. 18./19. January 1986.
  3. ↑ http://www.tlz.de/web/zgt/suche/detail/-/specific/Die-Klassik-Stiftung-eine-herkuleische-Aufgabe-1965342961
  4. ↑ See: Rolf Wiggershaus: The Nietzsche Archive Today - A Workshop for Free Spirits. A conversation with Rüdiger Schmidt, head of the Weimar Nietzsche College. In: dtv Nietzsche magazin, ed. v. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, 1999, p. 44.
  5. ^ Nietzsche for beginners: Thus spoke Zarathustra. An introduction to reading by Rüdiger Schmidt and Cord Spreckelsen. dtv, Munich, 2010, 8th edition ISBN 978-3-423-30124-4 (translations into Italian and Korean)
  6. ^ Nietzsche for beginners: Ecce homo. An introduction to reading by Rüdiger Schmidt and Cord Spreckelsen. dtv, Munich, 2000. ISBN 978-3-423-30734-5
  7. ↑ http://www.klassik-stiftung.de/index.php?id=180
  8. ↑ Friedrich Nietzsche: Typewriter Texts. Full edition. Facsimiles and critical commentary. Edited from the estate by Stephan Günzel and Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. Publishing house of the Bauhaus University Weimar, 2002. ISBN 978-3-86068-396-5
  9. ↑ Further reading : B.-Christoph Streckhardt: Weimar thinks, Perikles and ways out of the thicket of sausage. In: Ders .: The curiosity of the happy. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2012. pp. 148–158.
  10. ↑ Publications of the Fellows of the Friedrich Nietzsche College
  11. ^ List of Fellows
  12. ↑ http://www.nietzschesource.org/