Post für Nietzsche Dionysos. Zu <i>Ecce homo, Warum ich so weise bin 3</i>

Abstract Postal Delivery for Nietzsche Dionysos. On Ecce Homo, Why I Am So Wise 3 . A more authentic text of Ecce Homo appeared for the first time in KGW/KSA, thanks to the discovery of Why I Am So Wise 3 in Peter Gast’s estate. The found manuscript was a copy made by Heinrich Köselitz, alias Peter Gast, of a manuscript which Nietzsche had sent to C. G. Naumann for printing shortly before his collapse. Later, the manuscript was presumably destroyed. According to Naumann and Köselitz, the destroyed original dated from the end of December 1888. Montinari adopted this dating, but a preliminary draft preserved in the late Nachlass proves that the new text for Why I Am So Wise 3 was actually not written until the beginning of January 1889. From this new dating, we should take another look at Nietzsche’s last changes to the text of Ecce Homo . The reason for Nietzsche’s brutal reckoning with his mother and sister in Why I Am So Wise 3 must have been his mother’s New Year’s letter. The enigmatic postal delivery of a Dionysus head was possibly a frontispiece of Karl Frenzel in the January issue of the journal Die Gesellschaft .