DAS GENIE IM SCHAFFEN NIETZSCHES

ABSTRACT The article aims to show the central importance of Friedrich Nietzsche notions genius in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On one hand, it considers influence idealised representations (for example, Thomas Mann Gottfried Benn) as a marked by loneliness, illness, finally madness. other seeks trace significance ‘genius’ within Nietzsche's oeuvre . It transpires that concept is not only instrumental ‘self‐characterisations’ late works, but runs through his entire , from early texts written around 1870 final period 1888/9.