10/08/2021
🗻High frozen mountains, glittering lakes, the purity of the air: the enchanting landscape of Sils has inspired writers, thinkers, painters and continues to attract those who follow in their footsteps.
🖋 Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most important figures. It was in Sils that the philosopher got the inspiration for one of his most important works. "Here I feel far better than anywhere else on earth." He found beneficial climatic conditions in the Engadin, which gave him hope of relieving his migraine attacks, often associated with sickness and excruciating eye pain.
🛏️ The house in which he stayed, built at the beginning of the 19th century in the centre of Sils Maria, belonged to the Durisch family and stayed in private ownership for a long time after the philosopher's stays, until the foundation 'Stiftung Nietzsche-Haus in Sils-Maria" established a museum in 1959.
✨It is a small, sober house, as is proper for a philosopher, but it has a stunning view of the lake and mountains that lifts the spirit.
📚 Nietzsche spent most of his summer holidays there from 1882 to 1888 and wrote some of his most important works, of which documents, manuscripts and letters have survived.
📰 The exhibition rooms relate in chronological order to Nietzsche's life. They contain precious objects such as first editions of his works and a small, regularly changing selection of original manuscripts and other everyday objects belonging to the philosopher. A series of panels integrated into the showcases provide information on fundamental concepts and key words in Nietzsche's thought.
💭His first stay in Sils already brought him a fundamental thought, which would give a new direction to all his later philosophy: the 'Thought of the Eternal Return', the basic concept of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'.
🏠 He soon called the Upper Engadin "my elective home and creative hotbed", "(where) my muses dwell", and Sils Maria the place where I would like to die one day; but in the meantime it gives me the best motivation to go on living."
🗿 When he died in 1900, a commemorative plaque with verses from Zarathustra was inscribed in his memory on a stone on the Sils peninsula.
We highly recommend a visit to -Haus, Sils-Maria if you love art and philosophy and you want to know more about this thinker.
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