COORDINATOR: Yunus Tuncel
DATES: March 27 – April 5, 2025
In this trip, we will visit villages, towns, and cities where Nietzsche lived and discuss his life, works, ideas, and music. The trip starts in Berlin where a Nietzsche and music event will take place. After Berlin, the trip will continue to Leipzig where Nietzsche studied philology. From there, we visit Röcken where Nietzsche was born and spent the first few years of his life (1844-1848), Naumburg where he grew up, and Schulpforta gymnasium which he attended from 1858 to 1864. Our next stop will be Weimer where our second Nietzsche and music event will take place. In Weimar we will visit the Nietzsche Kollegium, which is the last place where Nietzsche spent the last 3 years of his life (1897-1900) under the care of his sister, Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche. From Weimer, we visit Jena and the mental asylum there (if accessible) where Nietzsche spent about a year after his collapse. The last place to visit is Bayreuth, the theater and the Wagner Museum, as we explore Nietzsche and Wagner’s relationship. From Bayreuth we return to Berlin for departure. Along the way, we plan to meet with scholars and directors of institutes and have dialogues with them on Nietzsche’s relevance to contemporary society.
Note
What is included in the price: lodging and breakfast for 8 nights/days, transportation from and back to Berlin (but not in Berlin), two dinners as listed (excluding alcoholic drinks), tour guides (in Berlin and Leipzig, and Nietzsche museum entrance fees (but not other museums), and lecture, musical performance and coordination fees.
What is not included: flights, all meals that are not included (all lunches and 6 dinners), transportation in Berlin (if needed), museums (other than Nietzsche houses/museums), travel insurance and personal expenses.
Regular Price
SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY – $2600
DOUBLE ROOM OCCUPANCY – $2300
Apply by December 31, 2024
General Itinerary
Day 1: Thursday, March 27
Departure from New York.
Day 2: Friday, March 28th
Arrive in Berlin. Relaxing and settling down in the hotel.
18:00 – Meeting in the hotel lobby
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
19:00 – Welcome dinner at (TBC) (included)
Introduction to the trip, German philosophy and the spirit of times of the 19th century Europe and Germany. Introduction to the life of Nietzsche, his philosophy and music.
Day 3: Saturday, March 29
Breakfast at hotel. Sightseeing in Berlin with a tour guide. Visits to historic sites and museums (details TBA). Group dinner optional (not included). Overnight in Berlin.
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
Introduction to Nietzsche’s intellectual background (High School and University years) and to his early writings from the Nachlass 1870-74. Readings: TLNS and BT. More information on Nietzsche’s musical background and compositions.
Day 4: Sunday, March 30
Breakfast at hotel. Sightseeing in Berlin with a tour guide. Visits to historic sites and museums (details TBA). Group dinner optional (not included). Nietzsche and Music event (details TBA)
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
Discussion on Greek culture and tragedy and BT. Discussion of 19th century music and Nietzsche’s musical background.
Day 5: Monday, March 31
Breakfast at hotel. Sightseeing in Berlin with a tour guide. AM: Visits to historic sites and museums (details TBA). PM: Free afternoon Group Dinner optional (not included). Concert or opera optional (not included). Overnight in Berlin.
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
Discussion on the first three untimely meditations and Nietzsche’s critique of modern age. The impact of music and his musicality on his writing and thinking.
Day 6: Tuesday, April 1
Breakfast at hotel. Departure from hotel for
Leipzig at 9:00am. After hotel check-in and a short break, a lunch at the historic restaurant. PM: Visit to Leipzig University where Nietzsche studied and other sites of interest. Meeting with professors of classics (TBC). A music tour of the city by a tour guide (details TBC). Overnight in Leipzig.
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
Bio: Nietzsche’s university years, 3 years in Leipzig as a student of Greek philology. Bio: Nietzsche’s life after academia. Readings from Human, All Too Human, Daybreak and The Gay Science. Lecture on the aphoristic genre in literature and his books of aphorisms. HAH, D, and GS. Readings from a selection of aphorisms. Nietzsche’s friendship with Paul Rée and Lou Salomé. And with Meysenbug. Nietzsche-Wagner encounter (first meeting happens in Leipzig). On Nietzsche and Wagner on music, arts and culture.
Day 7: Wednesday, April 2
Visit to Röcken (Nietzsche’ birth place) Naumburg and the Nietzsche House (the town where he grew up), and the Nietzsche Research Center. Dialogue with the director(TBC) Tour of Naumburg. Schulpforta (where he went to high school); meeting with some school teachers and admins (TBC) Wine tasting (included). Drive to Weimar, check in at hotel. Dinner (not included). Overnight in Weimar.
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
Bio: Back to Nietzsche’s early years, with some detailed reflection from Daniel Blue’s biography. Reading and discussion of TSZ. Music: Nietzsche’s musical activities during Schulpforta years.
Day 8: Thursday, April 3rd
Breakfast at hotel. Visits to Nietzsche Archive and Goethe-Schiller Archive. Sightseeing in Weimar. Dialogue with the director Nietzsche Kollegium.(TBC) Nietzsche Music Event at the Goethe National Museum (Time and other info TBA). Dinner (not included). Overnight in Weimar.
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
The last three years of Nietzsche’s life in insanity at the Weimar house. Introduction to Nietzsche’s critique of morality. Reading: BGE, GM, TI, A, and EH.
Day 9: Friday, April 4
Breakfast at hotel. 9:00 AM: Departure for Bayreuth via Jena. Visit to Jena (the mental asylum)(TBC). A short walking tour of Jena including the Jena University. Lunch in Jena. 1:00 PM: Departure for Bayreuth. Visit the Wagner Museum A tour of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Dialogue with someone from there (TBC). 6:00 PM: Early Dinner in Bayreuth (included). Return to Berlin airport and stay at an airport hotel.
Schedule of Readings/Discussions:
Bio: Nietzsche’s life at the Jena Mental Asylum (1890-1897). Nietzsche’s visits to Bayreuth. Nietzsche’s friendship with Wagner and its end. And Cosima Wagner. Introduction to the idea of eternal
return and TSZ. Reading and discussion of “UM IV: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth” and Nietzsche’s complex relationship with Wagner. Other readings: CW and NCW. Continued: Introduction to Nietzsche’s critique of morality. Readings from: BGE, GM, TI, A, and EH.
Day 10: Saturday, April 5
Breakfast at hotel. Fly back to New York.
