Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály (born 13 July 1952 in

Bad Oldesloe Bad Oldesloe () is a town located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is the capital of the district of Stormarn. The area has been inhabited since Mesolithic times. The flint tools found here from that era (6000–4500 BC) ar ...

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) is a German cultural manager and Director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Research and academic career

After leaving school in 1972, he studied

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

politics Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

and

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Kiel Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...

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and

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until 1980. In 1980, he successfully completed a doctorate on the early work of

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

under the direction of Hans Heinz Holz, Gert Mattenklott and Katharina Kanthack. From 1983 to 1985, holding grants from the

German Academic Exchange Service The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; ), founded in 1925, is a joint organization of German universities and student bodies to foster their international relations. Since 1 January 2020, the president has been Joybrato Mukherjee. Organisa ...

and the Italian foreign ministry, he worked in

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with Mazzino Montinari, who was editing the first Nietzsche edition free of falsifications, based on the studies he had been carrying out in Weimar since the 1960s. Until 1997, Schmidt-Grépály lectured in philosophy at the Universities of Florence,

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and

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

, then from 1998 at

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and the

Bauhaus University, Weimar The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the s ...

. From 1989 to 1995 he was the Philosophical Director of the "Karl Jaspers Vorlesungen zu Fragen der Zeit" at the University of Oldenburg under Rudolf zur Lippe. In 1994 Schmidt-Grépály worked at

Theater Bremen Theater Bremen (Bremen Theatre) is a state theatre in Bremen, Germany, with four divisions for opera, straight theater, dance, and student programs. Its venues are located in a city block, connected in architecture and seating up to 1,426 spectato ...

together with the pioneer of German dance theatre, Johannes Kresnik. He occasionally presented the radio programme "Doppelkopf" on hr2 for

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in conversation with guests such as Nike Wagner, Almos Csongár and

Ágnes Heller Ágnes Heller (12 May 1929 – 19 July 2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and lecturer. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s and later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Rese ...

. In 1999 Schmidt-Grépály organised a Nietzsche evening in Brussels with the title "Ich bin kein Mensch, ich bin Dynamit" (Friedrich Nietzsche) as one of the official contributions by the State of Thuringia to celebrating the German Presidency of the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...

. Involved in the Nietzsche event were the actors Silvia Fink and Harald Schwaiger of the

Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar The (DNT), or German National Theater and Weimar State Orchestra, is the most significant arts organization in Weimar. The institution unites the (German National Theater) with the (Weimar State Orchestra). It plays on a total of six stages ...

, and Luise Härtwig, alumna of the Musikgymnasium Weimar. The play was subsequently performed in Weimar, Naumburg, Munich, Lyon and elsewhere.

Founding of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche

In 1992, with the idea of turning the Villa Silberblick, the legendary former Nietzsche Archive, into a venue for free spirits in Nietzsche's sense, Schmidt-Grépály came to

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...

. After working for the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik from 1993 to 1999 first as a freelance collaborator, in October 1999 Schmidt-Grépály was appointed Director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche. For his initiative in founding and building up the Kolleg he was awarded the "Premio Internazionale Federico Nietzsche" by the "Associazione Internazionale di Studi e Ricerche Federico Nietzsche" (

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, Italy) in 2002. Shortly after celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Kolleg was nominated Weimar's first "Ort der Vielfalt" (Place of Diversity) in January 2012.''Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche: Weimars erster Ort der Vielfalt 2010.''
at: ''stadt.weimar.de'' 21 January 2010.

Bibliography

* ''Nietzsches Nietzsche. Werke letzter Hand.'' Ed. Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. L.S.D., Göttingen 2013. ''(announced)'' * ''Nietzsche für Anfänger: Also sprach Zarathustra.'' Eine Lese-Einführung von Rüdiger Schmidt und Cord Spreckelsen. 8th edn. dtv, Munich 2010, (trans. into Italian and Korean) * ''Auf Nietzsches Balkon. Philosophische Beiträge aus der Villa Silberblick.'' Ed. Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar 2009, . (Series: ''Schriften aus dem Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche'') * Introduction (with Cord Spreckelsen) to the audiobook ''Nietzsche für Anfänger: Also sprach Zarathustra'' read by Martin Umbach. Komplett Media Verlag, Grünwald 2008. * ''Friedrich Nietzsche: Schreibmaschinentexte.'' Complete edition. Facsimiles and critical commentary. Edited from the Nachlass by Stephan Günzel and Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. Verlag der Bauhaus Universität, Weimar 2002, . * ''Nietzsche im Christentum. Theologische Perspektiven nach Nietzsches Proklamation des Todes Gottes.'' Ed. Daniel Mourkojannis and Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. Schwabe, Basel 2004, . (Series: ''Beiträge zu Friedrich Nietzsche'') * ''Nietzsche im Exil. Übergänge in gegenwärtiges Denken.'' Ed. Steffen Dietzsch and Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, Weimar 2001, . * ''Nietzsches Labyrinthe. Leitmotive seines Denkens.'' (with Éva Grépály). In: Gerhard Schweppenhäuser and Jörg H. Gleiter (eds.): ''Nietzsches Labyrinthe. Perspektiven zur Ästhetik, Ethik und Kulturphilosophie.'' Philosophische Diskurse 4. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar 2001. * ''Die verratenen Gedanken / Wie Nietzsche erst gefälscht und dann rekonstruiert wurde.'' In: ''Süddeutsche Zeitung.'' 24 November 2001. * ''Ein Text ohne Ende für den Denkenden. Studien zu Nietzsche.'' 2nd, expanded edition. In: ''Athenäums Monografien / Philosophie.'' Vol. 260. Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, . * ''Nietzsche für Anfänger: Ecce homo.'' A Primer by Rüdiger Schmidt and Cord Spreckelsen. dtv, Munich 2000, . * ''Nietzsche. Text - Kontext.'' Ed. Djavid Salehi and Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar 2000, . * ''Zum 100. Todestag von Friedrich Nietzsche.'' In: ''Thüringer Museumshefte.'' Ed. Museumsverband Thüringen v.V., 9/2, 2000, pp. 93ff. * ''Nietzsche denken.'' In: ''Weimarer Kulturjournal.'' 9/10, Weimar 2000, p. 2. * ''Philosophischer Taschenkalender - Jahrbuch zum Streit der Fakultäten.'' 2 vols. Ed. Rüdiger Schmidt and Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt. Luciferlag, Lübeck 1992. * ''Zarathustras Wege.'' Text accompanying Friedrich Nietzsche: ''Also sprach Zarathustra.'' Read by Peter Wapenski. Der Hörverlag, Munich 2000.

References

External links

* SF Kultur , Sternstunde Philosophie
''Wer hat Angst vor Nietzsche? Das Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche zu Weimar''
(Video) * hr2-kultur
Doppel-Kopf mit Ágnes Heller
(Podcast

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Research and academic career

Founding of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche

Bibliography

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