Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Rosenberg Alfred
Title : Nietzsche Speech at a memorial service on the occasion of Friedrich Nietzsche's 100th birthday on 15 October 1944 in Weimar
Year : 1944

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We have come together today to honour a great German to German, who once out ofinner protest to his Nietzsche, who became a revolutionary in his intellectual and political environment, had to bear the fate of being misunderstood for decades and is only maturing towards his historical appreciation in our time. The purpose of our discussion today cannot be to show in detail the development of all of Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts, nor to examine what has emerged as a system of his thinking from his manifold and rich activity, but rather to commemorate the man himself. We may also do this today with all the more understanding in a general overview of his work, as Nietzsche's work is not so much about the construction and expansion of a philosophical edifice, but essentially again and again about the problem of the fate of the people who surrounded him. It was this attitude towards the fate of the times surrounding him t h a t forced Nietzsche to take his path from the "Birth of Tragedy" via the "Untimely Reflections" to "Beyond Good and Evil" and his increasingly harsh attack on the entire world of the 19th century. His personal experience is therefore more closely linked to his work than that of many other thinkers and creators; indeed, his work can hardly really be interpreted without this experience. The essential question of his life, which he once expressed: "Is greatness possible today?", determined his entire thought and action. Hardly any thinker has ever h a d such a question become the fate of his own life; for he, who searched for greatness, nobility and nobility of a t t i t u d e and mind and for the conditions of a hierarchy of existence that took these into account, saw around him precisely the decline of such possibilities and the ever clearer emergence of everything that he felt and had judged to be the opposite of greatness and nobility. ...