Heinrich Köselitz

Heinrich Köselitz ( born January 10, 1854 in Annaberg; † August 15, 1918 ibid, better known as Peter Gast ) was a German writer and composer. He is best known as a longtime friend and collaborator Friedrich Nietzsche.

Youth, marriage, acquaintance with Nietzsche and own work

Johann Heinrich Köselitz in 1854, the son of Anna Berger Vice Mayor Gustav Hermann Köselitz ( 1822-1910 ) and his wife Caroline native of Vienna ( 1819-1900 ) was born. His younger brother was the painter Rudolf Köselitz. Heinrich studied from 1872 at the University of Leipzig at Ernst Friedrich Richter music. In 1875 he moved to the University of Basel, where he attended lectures of Jacob Burckhardt, Franz Overbeck and Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1877, he reached into an article for a magazine the Basel Music faculty Selmar Bagge sharply, which caused a minor scandal.

On 3 September 1900 he married in Weimar Franziska Elise Wagner ( 1874-1966 ). From this marriage the daughter Johanna Elisa Carina guest went ( born January 25, 1902 in Weimar, † October 27, 1919 in Annaberg ) out.

For Friedrich Nietzsche soon developed a friendship. Köselitz read before temporarily almost blind Nietzsche and was dictated by his writings. In all the works of Nietzsche from 1876, he was instrumental in the creation of the print manuscript, read proofs and sometimes intervened in the last text design; so he acted as a kind of secretary. After matching opinion of performers underestimated and overestimated Nietzsche Köselitz as a musician and a helping hand while Köselitz worshiped his former teacher, probably transfigured and it was up to the task of self- services.

At a joint stay in Recoaro in the spring of 1881 for Köselitz of Nietzsche the pseudonym " Peter Guest" (also: Petro GASTI ) invented, under which he published from now on his works and was known in the Nietzsche reception. Peter Gast musical masterpiece is the " comic opera in three acts, " The Lion of Venice. Attempts guest and Nietzsche, to bring them back in the 1880s for performance, failed all. It was premiered in February 1891 in Danzig - under the direction of Nietzsche letter Partners Carl Fuchs and under the original title The Secret Marriage ( Il matrimonio segreto ). Under the proposed title of Nietzsche The Lion of Venice she experienced in 1930 eleven performances at the Chemnitz Opera House and in 1932 in Regensburg. Excerpts from the opera came in 1947 in Annaberg for Performance, 2013 conducted Naoshi Takahashi Anna Berger Eduard von Winterstein Theatre, the Opera, directed by Tamara Korber.

Köselitz was supported financially by his father, but mainly from Nietzsche's friend Paul Ree. Except as a musician and editor of Nietzsche's writings and letters (see below), he worked under other pseudonyms (about Ludwig Mürner, Schlemihl or Peter Eremitus ) as a writer; he wrote Contributions - including tales and fables - for various magazines.

Publisher Nietzsche

After Nietzsche's mental collapse in 1889 advised Peter Gast with Franz Overbeck and Nietzsche's publisher about the further handling of Nietzsche's work and assured the press ready posthumous writings and the estate; in 1891 he wanted to publish the first complete edition ( with their own prefaces ). This was stopped and pulped by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche after 1893; the philosopher's sister now took control over the work and the estate. In 1899 she won a guest for the work in which she founded Nietzsche Archive; he was especially needed because he could decipher the only Nietzsche's notes. In the coming years, he was together with Förster-Nietzsche out the alleged " main work" Nietzsche's The Will to Power, which was actually a questionable compilation of estate material. Guest also participated in campaigns against critics in the archive, including former employees and Franz Overbeck, and Carl Albrecht Bernoulli. It was not until 1909 he broke again with Förster-Nietzsche and now expressed itself violently in private letters to the archive.

It was not until 1969 that today found from Mazzino Montinari in Köselitz ' estate as finally valid version of a chapter of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. It contains heavy attacks Nietzsche against his mother and sister. The Nietzsche research assumed today that the guest and Förster-Nietzsche worked together due to a temporary " Agreement ": both possessed documents Nietzsche who were uncomfortable for the other.

From 1910 he lived and Heinrich Köselitz worked again in his home town of Annaberg. Here he wrote ( under the pseudonym " Peter Schlemihl " ) poems, essays, and humorous stories (partly in Ore Mountain dialect ), he campaigned for the preservation of the vernacular as well as their purity and dissemination.

On August 15, 1918, he died as " Peter the Hermit " in his " Epicurus Garden", as he called his home. There are in Annaberg a Köselitz Square and Peter Inn Road. In Berlin / Köpenick the former Wendenstraße (1866-1939) of the villa colony Wendenschloss 1939 renamed Peter -guest path. On the occasion of his 150th birthday hosted Annaberg - after decades of silence about him - a hard week with his works. In March 2012, a soiree life and work took place at the Cultural Erzhammer in Annaberg -Buchholz instead to the songs of Op. 4 and 7 of Peter Gast rang for the first time in Germany. The largest part of Peter Inn archive are in the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in the local Nietzsche Archive. There are also collections from the Anna Berger discount -lost are archived.

Works

• Scherz, List und Rache ( Komische Oper, according to Goethe text, 1880-1888 )
• Williram and Siegeer ( opera design, Tragedy, Act 3 ( 1878-1880 ), only three scenes in the first act completed, libretto by the composer
• King Wenceslas (Opera draft 1889 )
• Miska - Czardas (1885 )
• Bright Nights (1887, dedicated to Arnold kid, called "Hungarian Symphony" )
• The Lion of Venice (opera, 1st version 1884-1891 ), Premiere January 23, 1891, City Theatre Gdansk, under the title The Secret Marriage ), another 11 performances in 1930 in Chemnitz and 1940 in Regensburg.
• Songs ( Op. 1-9), arias and musical gaskets such as Lethe, night celebration, Waldweben, ( created 1893-1905 ), among other things, he set Poetry by Rudolf Baumbach, Anna Klie, Friedrich Daumer, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Paul Heyse, Joseph von Eichendorff, Friedrich Rückert, Kurt von Zelau, Max Zerbst, Anna Ritter, Friedrich Hebbel, Ludwig Uhland, Wilhelm Müller, Anton Ohorn. These works have been laid in 1900 when Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig.
• Incidental music to the resin Festival Walpurgis E. Wachler (1903 )
• Reich anthem for church, school and country (organ, choir, brass ensemble, 1916)

Texts in High German dialect and in the Erzgebirge

• " Verwerrtes people" ( 1893),
• " Pastor Wildsche and several other poems " (1896 )
• " Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life " ( 1900)

Extract of a dialect poem

Ze Rockn

Awareness is de lined ' to me: your guide ' comes ' rei! Iech wants drzehln. Because nu de Kinner was schlofn, do need kä 's ' greeting ' Verhehln:

Iech red ', as my dr love God ne Schobel had wachsn; kimmt 's Epper mol ze hanebieng, do 're always neer net bies!

Mir farmers who love 's in Brud to ploong from Gahr, Gahr ei ' känne my net su squeamish as such de Stadtleit ' was.

Waar dodrmiet zefriedn is, Glickauf! Dos is my ' Ma'! In then stackt joke! In stackt then power! Daar is - ka ' Hubelspah ' ...!

• "ze Rockn gih " or " hutzn gih " means: go to dinner at a friend's family, in which primarily nor others gather for chatting, singing and working. The first term indicates the formerly -been doing usual spiders - explains Heinrich Köselitz his poem.