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ZEIT interview with Ernst Jünger in 1989

The following is my unofficial translation of an interview with Ernst Jünger that appeared in ZEIT magazine in 1989. The interviewer is André Müller. A friendship developed from my original working contact with Ernst Jünger, whom I interviewed for ZEIT on November 8, 1989. We corresponded and he called me at regular intervals, initially to let me know about favorable critiques or newspaper...

Apoliteia

Through much of my last rereading of Julius Evola’s “Ride the Tiger” I have not been able to overlook spiritual and practical parallels of Evola’s ‘differentiated’ type of man to Jünger’s anarch. These become so obvious in the chapter “States and Parties: Apoliteia”, that I must comment. Both Evola’s differentiated man and the anarch have recognised the unworthiness of the ideas, motives and...

Reality and ideals

Playing the gentleman here would be possible only for actors; nor would anyone consider doing it anymore. Rather, people, such as my genitor and my brother, feel like martyrs. Half of Eumeswil is inhabited by types who have suffered for an idea or at least claim to have done so. They stood true to the flag, offered heroic resistance – in short, the worn-out military claptrap has reawakened. Upon...

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By Ernst Jünger – from around the world

Das abenteuerliche Herz: Zweite Fassung - Figuren und Capriccios
Afrikanische Spiele
Aladdin's Problem
Aladdin's Problem
An der Zeitmauer
Anarch im Widerspruch. Neue Texte zu Werk und Leben der Brüder Ernst und Friedrich Georg Jünger
Le api di vetro
Approches, drogues et ivresse
Der Arbeiter: Herrschaft und Gestalt
Avvicinamenti. Droghe ed ebbrezza
Briefe 1937-1970
cabane dans la vigne: (années d'occupation) : journal IV, 1945-1948
Cacce sottili
Il contemplatore solitario
Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918
A Dangerous Encounter
The Details of Time: Conversations with Ernst Jünger
Eloge des voyelles
La emboscadura
Ernst Jünger. Die Jahrzehnte in Oberschwaben.


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