Source — Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, tr. Helen Zimmern (public-domain ed.), full text via Project Gutenberg — checked for "Schadenfreude"

Title: Human, All Too Human (English translation of Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878)
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche; translated by Helen Zimmern
Publication: this project used the Project Gutenberg public-domain digitization (ebook #38145)
URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38145/38145-h/38145-h.htm
Date: Nietzsche's German original 1878; Zimmern translation public-domain era (early 20th century)
Accessed: 2026-09-01
Type: primary — the historical English-translation text itself, directly fetched and searched in full by this project. Neutral by nature.

Extract

Same method and motivation as the companion check of the Samuel translation of the Genealogy of Morals (see that source page): downloaded the full public-domain Zimmern translation and searched programmatically (case-insensitive) for "schadenfreude" and "malicious joy."
Result: zero occurrences of either string. ("Malice" appears twice; not further examined this session.)
Taken together with the Genealogy of Morals check, this project now has two independent, directly-checked negative results across two different classic public-domain English translations of Nietzsche, by two different translators, of two different Nietzsche books — a modestly stronger negative data point than either check alone, though still not conclusive (see Gaps on both pages).

Same limitations as the companion Genealogy of Morals check: only these two search strings were tried; more recent (copyrighted) translations were not checked per the project's standing fence; the German originals were not checked directly by this project this session.
This project has not located any specific passage where Nietzsche uses "Schadenfreude" in German to test against an English translation choice — the checks above were a search for the word's presence at all, not a comparison of a known German passage against its English rendering (the method that worked for saudade and hygge). This remains an open translator-practice gap for this word, of a different character from komorebi/wabi-sabi's gap (there, no data point was found at all; here, the two most obvious candidate texts were checked and came up empty, narrowing rather than closing the search).