The unforgotten
Die Unforgessenen is an anthology published in 1928 by Ernst Jünger as editor.
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In the anthology, authors from the nationalist, nationally revolutionary environment describe Ernst Jünger's life and fate of personalities who were killed in the First World War . Ernst Jünger wrote the preface and epilogue.
The volume contains the following articles (in brackets the names of the "unforgettable" personalities as the title of the respective article):
- Ernst Jünger : ( Caspar René Gregory )
- Erich Balla: ( Rudolf Berthold )
- Otfried Fuchs: ( Oswald Boelcke )
- Friedrich Georg Jünger : ( Otto Braun ; Manfred von Richthofen ; Gustav Sack ; Albert Leo Schlageter ; Maximilian von Spee ; Georg Trakl ; Hermann Löns )
- Hans Gerd Techow : ( Hans Breuer )
- Eckart Dury: ( Richard Dehmel )
- Erich Limpach : ( Hermann von Eichhorn ; Ferdinand zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich )
- Georg Heydemarck : ( Rudolf von Eschwege )
- Werner Lass : ( Walter Flex )
- Gerhard Günther: ( Gorch Fock )
- Goetz Otto Stoffregen : ( Ludwig Frank ; Walter Heymann ; Adolf Petrenz )
- Edmund Dolf: ( Colmar von der Goltz ; Ludwig Scholz )
- Ludwig Alwens: ( Norbert von Hellingrath ; Bernhard von der Marwitz )
- Rudolf Friedrich: ( Alfred Walter Heymel ; August Stramm )
- Richard Frey: ( Peter Strasser )
- Hans Schoenfeld: (Max Huber)
- Georg Schröder: ( Max Immelmann )
- Johannes Hohlfeld : ( Martin Köhler ; Walther Schumann)
- M. Lorenz, called Mia Lenz: ( Friedrich Lißmann )
- Bruno Golz : ( Wilhelm von Lotterer )
- Lothar Erdmann : ( August Macke )
- Lothar Schreyer : ( Franz Marc ; Karl Thylmann )
- Walter Schmidt: ( Paul Mauk )
- Hans Schwarz van Berk : ( Tom von Prince ; Otto Weddigen )
- Friedrich Schulze : ( Reinhard Sorge )
- Otto Brües : ( Albert Weisgerber )
Inserted: 3 poems
- Alfred Lichtenstein : The battle near Saarburg
- Ernst Wilhelm Lotz : brilliant song
- Ernst Stadler : The departure
Younger position
In 1927/28 Jünger had dedicated himself to the task of paying tribute to the fate of a number of men whom the First World War had “torn from our midst”. His thesis is that “we live through them - the fallen”. It is therefore not cheap that we let them live through us. He assumes that among the Germans the figure of the unknown soldier does not enjoy the same veneration as in other countries. Rather, the need predominates to be gripped by the individual fates of the fallen. He sees the second thought for the book in the experience that “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”. In the crowd of the fallen he sees the “expression of the German character”. We would also have to endeavor to see the fallen themselves as characters and “in their achievements the mirror that reflects a special formation of life”. This war would not be lost in vain as many lives are better purified and hardened by strokes of fate. Millions have fallen, but all things have flowed. On both sides of the war.
reception
As with other works by Jünger from his creative period during the First World War and afterwards, The Unforgotten were criticized for the glorification of violence and his idealization of masculinity in the form of the "warrior". Later, the disciple work was mostly from an aesthetic perspective rezipiert , and here is the explosive political implications have been hidden.
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreword by Ernst Jünger (editor) Die Unforgessenen , Justin Moser Verlag, Munich, 1928, page 9 ff.
literature
- Daniel Morat: From action to serenity - conservative thinking with Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger and Friedrich Georg Jünger 1920–1960 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2007, ISBN 3-8353-0140-3 .