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Ernst Jünger in pictures and text

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Ernst Jünger reflected in 1934 after his existential liminal experience of the First World War the people of the interwar period:

» When the type, as it is emerging in our time Mark with a word, should, one might say that one of his most striking characteristics is in possession of a second 'consciousness. This Second and colder consciousness suggests in the ever sharper developing ability to see oneself as object. "

of himself and his own claim student said probably not least - in his essay "The Problem of Pain " from which this passage is. accused by his critics, the disciples of his cold distance, its almost impenetrable shining armor, has been overlooked that it was this was a self-protective reflex. This has been recently confirmed by an impressive interview with his publisher Michael Klett. Klett said that the disciples in particularly painful life even physically injured - now the psychologists call it: carved - to trump at the emotional pain of a physical. Especially for this purpose should have disciples always worn a pin on the jacket.

It is this aloofness, this dandyeske Verpanzerung, coupled with tremendous sensitivity, which in turn is the basis for the objectivity perception of events. Disciples chose for its claim that the most neutral observers of the vocabulary item désinvolture , so not transferable into German word. Heimo Schwilk now in an expanded and updated and newly published picture biography of them are vivid testimony. Already the first edition in 1988 contained numerous images and text documents which had been published before. Now the disciples biographer of this standard work extended to the last decade Ernst Junger, who on 17 February 1998 just weeks before his 103rd Birthday died.

The brilliant works whose detailed biographical essay Schwilk connoisseurship of work and life of disciple is to be noted. The have been added, the final part now » 1988 - 1998. The dead come closer, "writes the biographer : " At the turn of 1997 / 98 disciples to go with the firm intention of the diary cycle Gone, seventy still have a add another band, but there are also signs of farewell. On a card greeting to the friends he can print a self-quotation in which he focused on Charon, conforms with the ferryman, who translated the dead across the river Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Begins, The Styx to shimmer, he invites' "

The opulent, large-format book Ernst Jünger - life and work in pictures and text is an example of print for a genre of books that tries to approach a writer through the composition of photo documents with texts from the work and extracts from letters. The serves not only readers who are just starting interest, to care for disciples. Even those who already know a lot about the biography of the century Diarist who have read some of his books, receive new instructions. Another advantage of the new edition in addition to the addition of the last decade, the new emphasis of many photos that the Klett-Cotta Verlag brings now much larger.

disciple himself was skeptical of the photograph. Schwilk cited in the first quotation of this review then a further passage from "The Problem of Pain" , the disciples photography as "revolutionary fact" called. give Since the First World War there was no significant event, noted disciples, which was not included in this way:

The effort "boils down to view and rooms that are closed to the human eye. The artificial eye penetrates the fog, atmospheric haze and the darkness, so the resistance of the material itself;. Optic cells operating in the depths of the deep sea and the large amount of the recording balloons " disciples, but feels that the cold and telescopic view of the camera man corresponded. "This recording is outside the zone of sensitivity"

HOW THE grave of the war was concluded. "The photograph is thus an expression of our peculiar, and indeed a cruel, as seen. In the end, here a form of evil gaze, a form of magical possession. This one feels very comfortable at places where is yet another cult compound alive. The moment in which a city like Mecca can be photographed, they moved into the colonial sphere. "

Heimo Schwilk extremely successful image and text gives the biography of Ernst Jünger interested the opportunity to prove it.

Heimo Schwilk (ed.), Ernst Jünger - life and work in pictures and text. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, 336 pages, hardcover, with numerous black and white illustrations, 31 January 2011 € 49.95, then 59.95.