ÜberDeutsche
Friedrich Nietzsche, koloriert nach der Fotografie von 1875

A1 und A2 · Basel 1869 bis Weimar 1900

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Kein Kurs. Eine Überwindung.

German from A1 to A2, learned in the life and words of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Every lesson opens with a short film in his world: Basel, Sils-Maria, Turin. You speak the talk, read his own sentences in the original, and go through the Kriegsschule. About fifteen minutes a lesson, on your phone, without an account.

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Lektion 1 · Der Film

Ich bin Friedrich Nietzsche

Basel, October 1875: the film that opens the first lesson. His world in pictures, his story in German you can follow, the English beneath it.

Nachweise für diesen Film

Pictures: Friedrich Nietzsche, 1875, coloured by Vitor Osório, CC BY-SA 4.0; Lapidarium at Augusta Raurica by Codrin.B, CC BY-SA 3.0; Inscription, Trajan's Column by MumblerJamie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sounds: pendulum clock by klankbeeld, CC BY 4.0; bells of the Protestant temple of Versoix by RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the film these pictures are cropped and moved, and shared under the same licences. The other pictures and sounds, and his own music, are in the public domain, from Wikimedia Commons.

Der Kurs

Was dich erwartet

  • 110Lektionen, A1 und A2From Basel in 1869 to Weimar in 1900, each one opens with a film in his world.
  • 878WörterThe A1 and A2 vocabulary, every word in a sentence you hear.
  • 106Sätze von ihmHis own words in the original, read aloud and explained.
  • 20BriefeA letter from him after each unit, after his real ones.

Eine Lektion

Vom Film zum Urteil

  • 01Der FilmA scene in his world, then the talk. Your lines are the amber ones: say them out loud.
  • 02Nietzsche sprichtOne of his sentences in the original, read aloud, word by word.
  • 03Grammatik und WortschatzThe rule behind the scene, and its words.
  • 04Kriegsschule des LebensThe exercises ask what you kept. Der Hammer sounds out his ideas: a true answer rings full, an empty one hollow.
  • 05Wer er ist · Das UrteilThe man behind the lesson, and the verdict on your round.

Nietzsche spricht

„Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens. — Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.“
From the war school of life. – What does not kill me makes me stronger. Götzen-Dämmerung, Sprüche und Pfeile 8 · 1889

Gratis und mit Abo

Jeden Tag eine Lektion

  • 1GratisOne new lesson every day. The lessons you have done and the Üben deck stay open.
  • 110Mit dem AboEvery lesson at once, monthly or yearly. The price is shown in the app before you buy; Apple or Google bill it, and you cancel in your store account.