The Nietzsche Channel: What's New?

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The old "Text-German" and "Text-English" have been combined into single pages as "Published Works," "Unpublished Works," "Lectures," "Notebooks," and "Correspondence." The German half of the site is being worked on first, while the English half will appear after that's finished, although there are a few files now available in English.

The "Published Works" page contains files for every edition. E.g., the new site has the first edition of The Birth of Tragedy (which was changed in the subsequent editions), with some explanatory footnotes. So you get to read editions in the form in which they were first published, all in searchable html. The new site also includes Marie Baumgartner's French translation of Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. In addition, each published work (Example 1, Example 2) has an "introductory page" consisting of image/artwork plus a relevant selection from his correspondence relating to the work, or a commentary with background material. All of the published philological articles—not entirely uploaded yet, since proofing the Greek is a bit onerous—are also going to be available for the first time in proofread html.

The "Unpublished Works" page contains files from Nietzsche's School Years and Nietzsche's Basel Years. These are all available in German. The English translations are being published in the ebook series, Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures. Part 1 of the series, "Nietzsche's Childhood: 1844-58" is now available and contains a complete translation of his long autobiography "From My Life" as well as some other material, including 28 color images. Appendix 2, Chronology of Nietzsche's Music (96 pp., 42 images), is also available, and contains complete translations of all the Lieder, references to music in notes and correspondence as well as Nietzsche's marginal glosses to his copy of Bizet's "Carmen." The next part to be published will be Appendix 1: Family, Friends, Correspondents.

The "Lectures" page lists Nietzsche's Lectures at Basel University, Nietzsche's Courses at the Basel Paedagogium, and Nietzsche's Public Lectures in the Great Hall of the Museum of Basel University with introductory pages as delineated above for the available texts and translations.

The "Correspondence" page is unchanged, although English translations have yet to appear in a limited form. A great deal of translations of his correspondence are being published in the ebook series.

The "Notebooks" page is being worked on at present. The notes will be different in that the text will have links for all of the allusions to, and direct quotes from, the books he read. Some of these links are available now in the German text of the published works. All this is being done in conjunction with "Nietzsche's Library," which brings us to summarizing this revamped material.

"Nietzsche's Library" is very illuminating insofar as it really shows how much he confronted his contemporaries, and should be of interest, if not indispensable, to anyone writing on or researching Nietzsche. The library also has translations of the reviews of his works, some of which, as we know regarding BGE, left the reviewer either flummoxed (Conrad Hermann in Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung) or quite derisive (George von Gizycki in Deutsche Rundschau)—both motivating factors behind Nietzsche's decision to write GM.

It's a lot of work revising ten years of files, so if you want to help keep the site alive, make a donation or purchase the ebook.

CHRONOLOGY OF NIETZSCHE'S MUSIC
Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures. Appendix 2. 96 pages with 42 images (PDF). Sections:
— 1854-1860.
— 1861-1863.
— 1864-1867.
— 1870-1887.
— Sheet Music.
— Music References in Works & Notes with translations.
— Music References in Correspondence with translations.
— Nietzsche's Marginal Glosses to George Bizet's "Carmen."
— Bibliography.

Briefe an Der Kunstwart
Two letters by Nietzsche to Ferdinand Avenarius published in Avenarius' magazine, at Nietzsche's request. In German.

Poetry
List of Nietzsche's poems and poetic fragments, in English and German, with available links. The page is incomplete at present.

Nietzsche's Music
With available links. Chronology of Nietzsche's Music will be published soon.

Poems/Gedichte
Nietzsche's poems in English and German, with a few new translations. In dual text format.

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Added Hausrath, and revised 9 other library files. Added remaining files (Herbst 1873—Winter 1873-74 30[1-38] through Ende 1874 38 [1-7]), completing the 1869-1874 section of the German notebooks with library links.

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Corrected Hamann file. Added Hegel, Jean Paul and Rosenkranz files. Revised 14 other library files. Added to New Sources: Karl Rosenkranz. Revised 4 published, 1 unpublished, and 1 notebooks files. Added Sommer-Herbst 1873 29 [1-100] and Sommer-Herbst 1873 29 [101-232] notebooks files with library links.

Nietzsche's Library
Added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library (16 library files; 8 works-pub files; 1 works-unpub file; 1 notebooks file, and fixed some broken links).

Analecta Laertiana.
Reprint of Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 25 (1870): 217-231. In html format with text in Latin and Greek.

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Working on revised German notes with library links; uploaded first eight files (Fall 1869 through Winter 1870-71 - Fall 1872). Also uploaded the concordance between KSA and WP, with a few changes from the old version.

Nietzsche's Library
Added to "New Sources of Nietzsche's Reading": Eduard Pfander. Fixed some broken links.

Mahnruf an die Deutschen
Added to the introductory page: October 25/26, 1873 letter from Friedrich Nietzsche to Richard Wagner, with English translation.

Der Danae Klage
Reprint of Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 23 (1868): 480-489. In html format with text in German, Greek and Latin.

Most of the German content (with some new material) is now up, along with some of the main pages. The rest will be added soon. Search results will lag until the Google-Bot finishes spidering the site.

Nietzsche's Library
This revolutionary tool for Nietzsche studies is now directly on the site. The main page has full-text search of the library on Google Books. Use the search tips to refine your results. Google has stopped supporting IE6. If you are still using that browser, the search page will hang.

The Nietzsche Channel is slowly coming back online. At present, the following sections are up:

Nietzsche's Library
Now with over 1300 volumes, as well as some new sections, including one regarding a loan that he requested from the University of Leiden.

E-Book
Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures, a comprehensive pictorial biography is available for purchase. Part 1. Nietzsche's Childhood: 1844-58 includes translations of "From My Life," early poetry and correspondence, with 28 images.

Donate
With over twenty million visits, the site needs donations to pay for the bandwidth. On the bright side, it won't be shut down ten to fifteen thousand times a month like it was due to Geocities bandwidth restrictions. You can also view a list of academic institutions that have used the site.

Some changes from the old site that are planned for the other sections include:
1. Dual text: you will be able to compare the original German with the translation on a single page.
2. The texts will be broken down into more manageable sections.
3. The forum will be closed.
4. Advertising is being accepted. Contact for rates and specs.