Prof. N. says that for the scholar such events mean the end of all existence. Taylor as Wagner’s Hitler: The Prophet and his Disciple, 2000), presenting … Prof. N. sends the copies of the deluxe edition. But then he adds, "Nietzsche could have done it." Vol. Nietzsche admired both greatly, and during his time at Basel frequently visited Wagner's house in Tribschen in the Canton of Lucerne. Wagner did not think Nietzsche was homosexual; instead, prescient in so many things, Wagner was the first major thinker to call Nietzsche a wanker (just kidding, Nietzsche fans). Westacott, Emrys. In their outlook on life and music, they were both heavily influenced by Schopenhauer. Home. He will have free meals twice a week with Nietzsche, and every Saturday we shall expect a report. Ken Robinson; A. R. Orage AKA Alfred Richard Orage; Peter Gast (AKA Heinrich Köselitz); … He laughs and says, "Oh, it is always bad.". Dinner with the Kessingers and Nietzsche in the Restaurant Valentin [....] Gay atmosphere [....] ([....] Prof. Nietzsche tells me that in Munich a Dr. Puschmann, lecturer at the university there, has just published a paper in which he proves psychiatrically that R. is mad. Nietzsche was 25 when he first met Wagner and his 32-year-old mistress Cosima (daughter of Franz Liszt and at that time wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow) in May 1869. "— Friend Nietzsche tells us all sorts of dismal things about the position of the excellent Fritzsch [N.'s publisher], his health, and the state of his business. Nietz., he quotes some very fine words of his friend Rohde about. He tells us the title of his book, which will be called, Visited Marie M[uchanoff] with Prof. N. [...], R. is working, "still bloodthirstily"; recently he said to Prof. Nietzsche, "From the fact that I am now composing nothing but bloodthirstiness one can deduce whether I was in love when I wrote. Letter from Prof. N. enclosing his lecture on Socrates ["Socrates und die Tragoedie" (Socrates and Tragedy)]. But what he tells us about the newspapers and about university people is horrifying. Meanwhile, there was another purpose Cosima Wagner had, ... She said once to Nietzsche bitterly: "What I build up with effort and love, the world tears down again." ", In the evening R. reads to me the passage in, At breakfast, when [R.] returns to the subject of [Ernst] Renan and I tell him I cannot imagine any of the present famous German writers being able to formulate such thoughts, he says, "They are too difficult, too much concerned with 'progress.'" "How much more significant does such a theme appear than any spoken thought! He showed the importunate woman the door, she threatened him, etc.— Our Prof. Rohde in Kiel has been advised that he will never become a full professor. [...] some lines from Prof. Nietzsche (in Hagenau), who describes the terrible state and inadequacy of the medical care on the battlefields. R. reads Herr von Wilamowitz's pamphlet and is provoked by it into writing an open letter to Prof. Nietzsche, which he reads to me in the evening. This is a lecture which Nietzsche would later integrate into his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy, and has all the stamps of his collaboration with Wagner. And his key relationships, with Richard and Cosima Wagner, and with Lou Andreas-Salomé, did not end well. I loved how Joachim Kohler honored Nietzsche by playing off the motifs of the Dionysian from The Birth of Tragedy and poetically used this idea to incorporate the myth of Dionysus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. Nietzsche admired both greatly and, during his time at Basel, he frequently visited Wagner's house in Tribschen in Lucerne. Only faith and truth can help. 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