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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.
Jünger and his second wife Liselotte welcomed me into his study at the top of the house, littered with his steel helmets, one of which had been pierced by a British bullet at the Battle of Cambrai. “If your countryman had aimed better I would not be here,” he said.
Ernst Jünger 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gretha Jünger was, thus, not only her husband’s confidant, but a true intellectual correspondent. The correspondence contains numerous unknown details about their biographies, the writings of Ernst Jünger and contemporary history.
Dec 27, 2021 · Hurrying to the basement shelter with his young children under his arms as shrapnel whips around them, Jünger the warrior, who found liberation in its chaos, has been replaced by Jünger the husband and father, a helpless victim of war’s ever-spreading destruction.
3 days ago · Jünger the bibliophile is a subject for a separate study. Books were one of the German writer’s collecting passions. They were literally everywhere in the house — about 15,000 volumes (today, the Jünger house museum contains 10,000 volumes; part of Jünger’s library, mostly inscribed books, was taken by the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach).
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If there is one German author who appears emblematic for the brutality of the First World War, the glorification of violence and the fascist reading of the wartime experience from 1914 to 1918, it is without doubt Ernst Jünger. His knowledge of life on the front line was virtually unparalleled among German writers.
