Nietzsche House Sils Maria
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) lived in what is now the Museum Nietzsche House in Sils Maria in Switzerland during the summer months of the 1880s, until shortly before his mental collapse in January 1889. The building has been a museum since 1960.
History of the house
Nietzsche's place of residence
Due to his poor health, Nietzsche gave up his professorship for classical philology at the University of Basel in 1879 and then traveled to European health resorts such as St. Moritz , Nice , Menton and Rapallo in search of a more favorable climate for writing his philosophical works. In 1881 he rented in Sils Maria at Mayor Durisch for a franc a day in a 200-year old house an unheated room on the first floor and lived there during the summer months of this year, and from 1883 to 1888. The high-altitude Sils in the Upper Engadine he called perla perlissima . In his room, which he called his cave , he corresponded with friends and family members and wrote the following works: The joyful science , Beyond good and evil , On the genealogy of morality , Ecce homo , The will to power , Twilight of the idols or How to philosophized with the hammer , The Wagner case , Nietzsche contra Wagner . He was inspired by his late work Also sprach Zarathustra and the associated concept of Eternal Coming during a hike on the nearby Silvaplana Lake , “near a mighty, pyramidal towered block not far from Surlei ”.
museum
In 1959 Nietzsche's whereabouts were redesigned into a museum by members of the Nietzsche House Foundation in Sils Maria and opened on August 25, 1960 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the philosopher's death. The museum contains one of the world's largest multilingual collections of works on Nietzsche. The collection includes a library with now over 4,500 volumes, the Oscar Levy room , named after Oscar Levy , Nietzsche's first translator into English, and the Basler Professorenstube set up in 1991 with the original furniture from Nietzsche's first own household in Basel .
Quote
"Dear friend, now I am back in Upper Engadin, for the third time, and again I feel that here and nowhere else is my real home and breeding ground."
Individual evidence
- ^ Nietzsche room
- ^ Nietzsche House Foundation
- ^ Library in the Nietzsche House
- ↑ Oscar Levy Room
- ^ Basler Professorenstube
- ^ Letter from Nietzsche to Carl von Gersdorff , Sils Maria, end of June 1883
literature
- Paul Raabe : Walks through Nietzsche's Sils-Maria. Arche Verlag, Zurich 1994 (6th edition), ISBN 978-3-7160-2182-8 .
- Bodo Plachta: Houses of poets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reclam Paperback No. 20239, 2011. ISBN 978-3-1502-0239-5 .
Web links
- Elian Ehrenreich: Sils Maria - a place of enlightenment for Nietzsche In: Die Welt, November 2, 2015
- Volker Wahl , Margit Hartleb: Nietzsche's Jena medical record on the move . Verlag Vopelius, Jena 2011. p. 83.
Coordinates: 46 ° 25 ′ 44 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 54" E ; CH1903: 778 792 / 144600
