BEING NIETZSCHE

JUDITH ROSMAIR

360° virtual reality film about Friedrich Nietzsche's manipulative sister Elisabeth

»Being Nietzsche« is an immersive 360° virtual reality film based on Friedrich Nietzsche's relationship with his sister Elisabeth Förster- Nietzsche. She cared for him until his death in 1900 in the Weimar Villa Silberblick, now the Nietzsche Archive. Elisabeth was significantly involved in the creation of the "Nietzsche Myth". She acted as an ambitious editor of his writings and sparked the Nietzsche cult, manipulating a whole series of letters, texts, and themes from Nietzsche's works, thereby contributing to a national-socialist reading of the philosopher. Nietzsche's self-centeredness, his "revaluation of all values," the abolition of higher instances, and the hubris of the "Übermensch," but especially the assumption that there can be no truth, says a lot about Nietzsche's influence on our contemporary view of man and the world. The experimental character of his thoughts and the perspectival refraction of his statements are put into context with the present. Virtual reality offers viewers the unique experience of feeling physically present and part of the scene. Experience yourself as Friedrich Nietzsche and what it is like to be helplessly at the mercy of the ambitious sister, even after death, in the creation and manipulation of the "Nietzsche myth." "BYE BYE BÜHNE", which premiered with great success at the 2021 Kunstfest Weimar, is followed by another VR work by theatre maker Judith Rosmair for the Kunstfest Weimar, where she is a guest for the fourth time in a row.