Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
Ben Macintyre, Cara Shores
Language: English
Pages: 230
ISBN: 2:00186610
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colourful history of Elisabeth's return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother's philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.
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Of the forested banks. Usually there was a canoe waiting, on to which the crew would load provisions. No money seemed to change hands. We left the main branch of the river and detoured down a winding tributary, stopping at a larger estancia, the Rancho Negro, to take on two more passengers. One was a taciturn, leathery gaucho with deep, distant eyes and a heavily scarred face. The other was a live puma nailed into a wooden cage which the crew gingerly carried to the bow and then avoided. She was.
Different degrees of affection) all his life. Friedrich was a nervous child, shy, introverted and precocious. He wrote his first autobiography at the age of fourteen, disguised as a memoir to his father. It is painful to read, the expressions of romantic piety jarring with genuine anguish. They both learned to play the piano; she competently, he with real virtuosity, developing a love of music that is reflected in his more melodious writing. By the age of eight he was writing poems and plays and.
Elisabeth thought all moral lines were irreproachable, so long as they were hers. Although she regretted her brother’s animosity, she was increasingly preoccupied with the other man in her life. Bernhard Förster’s career as an anti-Semitic Siegfried had reached something of an impasse. His new party and ‘The German Seven’, an anti-Semitic group of which he was a member, were attacked in liberal newspapers for what they were: a bunch of rabble-rousing opportunists fuelled by race hatred. Förster.
This largely explains why she suppressed its publication for eight years after the death of its author. The biography was the long-awaited opportunity for revenge on Lou Andreas-Salomé. The Russian littérateuse was nothing but a shallow upstart, ‘a forerunner of a certain sector of the modern emancipated woman’, with a ‘simply revolting’ way of expressing herself (Elisabeth never forgot the gloves-off fight at Jena); it was she who had wanted to marry Nietzsche, but he found her ‘essentially.