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World War I. World War II. 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. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an ...
This photograph was the frontispiece to Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel, which he self-published in 1920. It shows Jünger in his fur-embellished uniform coat, with his decorations clearly visible. The Pour le Mérite (Order of Merit) sits beneath the collar, in the shape of a blue enamelled Maltese Cross. Photo used with permission of Klett ...
Feb 17, 1998 · By Richard Kühl. Jünger, Ernst. (Hans Sturm) Writer. Born 28 March 1895 in Heidelberg, Germany. Died 17 February 1998 in Riedlingen, Germany. Ernst Jünger was a German writer. His book Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) is considered one of the best-known literary accounts of the experience of the First World War. Table of contents.
May 8, 2020 · The Anarch represents total freedom and mankind's truest form. He is Junger's realization of the Nietzschian Ubermensch, and his final answer to a world being overrun with technology, which he saw as the modern world's force of evil. On the 17th of February, 1998, in his 103rd year of life and a year after being welcomed into the Catholic ...
Ernst Jünger (born March 29, 1895, Heidelberg, Ger.—died Feb. 16, 1998, Wilflingen) was a German novelist and essayist, an ardent militarist who was one of the most complex and contradictory figures in 20th-century German literature. Jünger joined the French Foreign Legion in 1913, but his father had him brought back to Germany.
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Storm of Steel (German: In Stahlgewittern; original English title: In Storms of Steel) is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger 's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War from December 1914 to August 1918. The book is a graphic account of trench warfare. It can be read affirmatively, neutrally or as an anti-war book.
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J Ü NGER, ERNST(1895–1998) Ernst J ü nger was a German novelist and cultural critic who, by embracing total war as an exemplary pattern of life, helped to prepare the ideology of the National Socialist revolution of 1933. He was born in Heidelberg and educated in Hanover.
