Mazzino Montinari
Mazzino Montinari ( born April 4, 1928 in Lucca, † November 24, 1986 in Florence ) was an Italian historian and specialist in German. He is considered one of the most important Nietzsche researchers.
Life
Studies and political activity
From 1945 to 1949 Montinari studied at the Faculty of Philosophy ( classe di Lettere ) of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. His most important teacher was the historian Delio Cantimori, where he received his doctorate in 1949 on the Protestant Reformation in Lucca.
In the first half of the 1950s was Montinari active functionary in cultural organizations of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI ), where he was especially with the German Translate writings, including Franz Mehring's history of social democracy, busy. In a research visit to East Berlin in 1953, he witnessed the uprising of 17 June. After the crushing of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, he finally turned from orthodox Marxism and the political career from, but remained all his life to the ideals of socialism and committed member of the PCI.
Cooperation with Colli
1957 met Montinari Giorgio Colli again, who had already been his teacher in the 1940s. He gave his occupation on in the party and moved to Florence in 1958 to work on the series supervised by Colli Enciclopedia di authorized classici. For this, he translated and edited texts by Goethe, Schopenhauer, Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Freud.
Nietzsche
With Colli he prepared from the late 1950s, before an Italian translation of the works of Nietzsche. Through the work of Karl Schlechta and Richard Roos ' they were aware of the problems of previous Nietzsche spending so Montinari traveled in April 1961 even after Weimar, to sift the manuscripts. In Goethe and Schiller Archive National Research and memorials of classical German literature, which kept the holdings of the former Nietzsche archives, he also met the critical researcher Erich Friedrich Nietzsche Podach. After reviewing the manuscripts themselves Montinari and Colli decided to start a new, critical edition of Nietzsche, which appeared as an Italian edition published by Adelphi in Milan, as the French edition by Gallimard in Paris and as a German edition published by Walter de Gruyter. Originally Podach also should contribute to this issue, but due to irreconcilable differences in the Nietzsche - interpretation, it did not happen.
Work on Nietzsche edition was to Montinari mission in life: he moved in 1965 to Weimar, where he met his future wife Sigrid Oloff. It was helpful Montinari ability to decipher even Nietzsche's late, almost illegible handwriting, which previously to this extent only in 1918 deceased Heinrich Köselitz had been able. See also: Nietzsche edition # Colli - Montinari edition
Montinari and others founded the appearing since 1972 Nietzsche studies and was instrumental to his death. He advocated a rating based on a correct basis philological interpretation of Nietzsche's works without premature speculation. He also made it a point to see Nietzsche in the context of his time; to the him and began also of Colli critical edition of the correspondence of Nietzsche should serve. A truly philosophical interpretation of Nietzsche, he never stated that his published partly in the anthology read Nietzsche essays should be more philological- historical groundwork, warnings, and adjustments for a philosophical debate. Most likely he sympathized with the " enlightened " Nietzsche the " free-spirited " period.
Other activities and awards
In the 1970s and 1980s Montinari commuted between the two German states and Italy. As a German scholar, he taught at the Universities of Urbino, Florence and Pisa. 1980/81 he was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, 1981/82 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, with its founding rector Peter Wapnewski he was also friends. In Weimar, he was a member of the Board of the Goethe Society. He worked on the Italian Marx-Engels- issue and at the Weimar Heine- secular issue. 1985 Friedrich Gundolf Prize of the German Academy, he was awarded for Language and Literature.
Montinari died on 24 November 1986 in Florence of a heart attack. The funeral was held at the Church of the Florentine hamlet of Settignano.
Work
- Read Nietzsche. de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1982. ISBN 3-11-008667-0 ( collection of essays on various topics of Nietzsche research. )
- Friedrich Nietzsche: an introduction. de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1991. ISBN 3-11-012213-8. ( Representation of Nietzsche's life and work with approaches to interpretation and debate. )