Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.
How Mazzino Montinari and Giorgio Colli discovered plagiaries in Weimar.
This temporary exhibition portrays the achievements of the Italian-born German Studies scholar Mazzino Montinari, who worked in Weimar in the 1960s. While he and his professor Giorgio Golli were retranslating Nietzsche’s writings, they stumbled across numerous alterations and forgeries, for which Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and her research assistants at the Nietzsche-Archiv were responsible. Over several years, the two Italian scholars produced a critical edition of the famous philosopher’s works and estate which is still considered the standard reference work today. After 1964, they published the new edition in Italy, France and West Germany. In former East Germany (GDR), however, many were suspicious of Nietzsche’s legacy as his philosophy was often misappropriated by the National Socialists. The exhibition examines the circumstances under which the Italians were able to produce the edition. A presentation of photos and documents will be supplemented by an audio station which highlights a selected forgery and how it was corrected.
Publication Nietzsche – Weimar – GDR
Further publications on the exhibitions in the Nietzsche Archive
Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.