An introduction into Nietzsche's life and thinking with particular regard to his productive years in Sils Maria.

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TOPICS:

Nietzsche’s childhood and upbringing, death of his father, music

as an influence, early professorship in Basel, illness, nomadic life, Schopenhauer’s impact, Will to Power, multi-perspective view, influence on modernity and post-modernity, hostility towards Christianity, Death of God, Zarathustra, life in Sils Maria, fear of blindness, early user of a typewriter, Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Silvaplana stone, breakdown in Turin, mental illness and death, Nietzsche’s so-called testament (scribblings at the clinic in Jena).

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Friedrich Nietzsche is presented in this essayistic documentary as a fascinating, questionable and sometimes repulsive philosopher whose influence goes far beyond the boundaries of the academic world. As a representative of perspective thinking he is regarded as a pioneer of modernism and postmodernism. Of utmost importance for his life and work was the tiny Swiss village Sils Maria, the only place that he visited again and again during his nomadic years and where many of his works were created. 

 

The film conveys a tangible impression of the area and how this charismatic place must have influenced Nietzsche's thinking and feeling. For the first time in a film are shown in detail some of the scribbled sheets from the time of his so-called mental derangement at the clinic in Jena, one of these papers called by Nietzsche his "testament". The majority of the interviewees in the film are academics related the Nietzsche-Haus in Sils Maria. 

 

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