{"id":72786,"date":"2026-06-03T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=72786"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:12:42","slug":"the-misbegotten-fritz-koegel-and-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-misbegotten-fritz-koegel-and-his-family\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Misbegotten\u201d: Fritz Koegel and His Family"},"content":{"rendered":"As a talented editor, Fritz Koegel found his calling at the Nietzsche Archive. He became embroiled in a conflict with Elisabeth F\u00f6rster-Nietzsche, a conflict Rudolf Steiner was also drawn into. Career setbacks, artistic endeavors, and a family life overshadowed by depression lead to early tragedies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Rudolf Steiner visited the Nietzsche Archive in Naumburg for the first time on May 26, 1894, along with his colleagues from the archive and the poet Gabriele Reuter, he also met Fritz Koegel. The newly appointed editor of Nietzsche\u2019s works read passages from Der Antichrist to the visitors\u2014one of the posthumous writings of the philosopher, who was becoming increasingly famous at the time and who, though present under the same roof as them, was no longer conscious of himself.\n\n\n\n<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a talented editor, Fritz Koegel found his calling at the Nietzsche Archive. He became embroiled in a conflict with Elisabeth F\u00f6rster-Nietzsche, a conflict Rudolf Steiner was also drawn into. Career setbacks, artistic endeavors, and a family life overshadowed by depression lead to early tragedies. When Rudolf Steiner visited the Nietzsche Archive in Naumburg for the first time on May 26, 1894, along with his colleagues from the archive and the poet Gabriele Reuter, he also met Fritz Koegel. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9190,"featured_media":72498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11473,8846],"tags":[11802,11803,8814],"class_list":["post-72786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-rudolf-steiner","category-history","tag-ausgabe-21-2026-en","tag-english-issue-23-2026","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72807,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72786\/revisions\/72807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}