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Zarathustras Sister
Author: H. F. Peters

From inside flap: — The case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche — How the High Priestess of the Nietzsche Cult changed history through her propagation of her brother's message. — by H.F. Peters — Illustrated — A woman whose manipulations were worthy of Machiavelli, Elisabeth Nietzche used her position as the sister of one of Germany's greatest phil... more »osophers to pervert her brother's message and to justify and dignify Nazism. Now, having consulted material never before available, H.F. Peters exposes the whole extent of her forgeries and betrayals. He depicts the long life of this woman, who embodies what Hannah Arendt has called the "banality of evil," in the context of her times.

Beginning with Elisabeth and Freidrich's childhood in the old cathedral town of Naumburg, the book traces the children's close relationship, their elitism, and Elisabeth's feelings that her brother was a very special person, destined to immortalize the Nietzsche name and provide her with an entree into the highest social circles. The author describes how Elisabeth succeeded in forming friendships with such illustrious persons as Wagner and his wife Cosima.

Zarathustra's Sister examines the considerable influence of Elisabeth, as the high priestess of the Nietzsche cult, exerted on the literary and political life of Germany from Bismark's time to Hitler's - so much so that on three occasions her name was proposed to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in literature. When she dies in 1935, almost ninety years old, the German press eulogized her as an undaunted exponent of the true German spirit and called her the "first lady of Europe." Hitler personally attended her funeral and laid a laurel leaf on her coffin.

Until publication of this important volume, nobody understood the pivotal relationship between Nietzsche and his sister. As long as she was alive, nobody had access to her private papers, and even after her death and the defeat of the Third Reich, her personal papers, correspondence, and diaries remained locked up in Weimar. But now, through the courtesy of the German Democratic Republic, H.F. Peters has been able to obtain access to this treasury of unpublished documents, and the result is a biography rich in the documented detail o activities and manipulations confirmed by Elisabeth's own words. As the author states, "My purpose in writing this book was to present the case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche as fully and completely as possible. I leave it to the reader to form his own judgment."

ISBN-13: 9780517527252
ISBN-10: 0517527251
Publication Date: 12/12/1988
Pages: 243
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Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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Biographies & Memoirs >> General
Biographies & Memoirs >> People, A-Z >> ( N ) >> Nietzche, Friedrich
Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
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Nonfiction >> Philosophy >> Modern

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