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Idyllen aus Messina.

von
Friedrich Nietzsche.


"Internationale Monatsschrift,"
1. Band. 5. Heft. Mai 1882:269-275.
"Auch der ernstesten Zeitshrift thut hier und da etwas Heiteres noth. Hier sind 8 Lieder für Ihre Zeitschrift. Meine Bedingungen sind
1) daß sie alle 8 auf Ein Mal gedruckt werden
2) und den Anfang einer Nummer machen, der nächsten womöglich
3) daß sie mit zierlichen und eleganten Lettern gedruckt werden, nicht mit der Prosa-Aufsätze."
— Mitte Mai 1882: Brief von Friedrich Nietzsche an Ernst Schmeitzner.

These poems from Spring 1882 were written in Sicily, where Nietzsche remained for three weeks (April 1-24) after arriving from Genoa.

In May 1882, Nietzsche's eight idylls were published in "Internationale Monatschrift" (International Monthly Review)—an anti-semitic literaro-cultural magazine—owned by Ernst Schmeitzner, Nietzsche's publisher at the time, with whom he would later sever all ties and eventually sue. They stem from the same voluminous amount of poetic attempts from February to April 1882, from which Nietzsche later composed his "Vorspiel in deutschen Reimen" (Prelude in German Rhymes) to Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Joyful Science) in 1882. From these eight poems, Nietzsche used six (in modified form) for the "Lieder des Prinzen Vogelfrei"—the appendix for the second edition of Die fröhliche Wissenschaft in 1887.

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