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Ernst Jünger (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈjʏŋɐ]; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.
It is precisely this awareness of how closely violence and normality were intertwined, of how war and the hope for peace were bound together, that make Jünger’s diaries such an important and insightful historical document for our understanding of the practice of violence in the First World War.
Abstract. There are moments when from above the horizon of the mind a new constellation dazzles the eyes of all those who cannot find inner peace, an annunciation and storm-siren betokening a turning-point in world history, just as it once did for the kings from the East.
May 8, 2020 · Junger first gained fame for his incredible acts of valor and bravery during the first World War, fighting in Northern France and Belgium on the Western Front on behalf of the German Empire. He would also go on to use his wartime diary and writings to compose The Storm of Steel (1920), which gained fame in Germany and around the world.
His first book, In Stahlgewittern, appeared in 1920. It argued that Germany's suffering in WWI was as a prelude to a greater victory and rebirth for the nation. While not glorifying the soldierly bravery, Junger believed that the war was the first encounter in a forthcoming global conflict.
Indeed, during Hitler’s chancellorship, he wrote a daring allegory on the barbarian devastation of a peaceful land in the novel Auf den Marmorklippen (1939; On the Marble Cliffs), which, surprisingly, passed the censors and was published in Germany.
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After the war, Jiinger's books found a particularly positive echo among conservatives, theologians, and religious writers."5 Both the novels, The Marble Cliffs and Heliopolis (1949), provided explanations, in the form of allegories, for the purported civil war that had marked the Nazi period. In both novels, the easily
