The unforgotten

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The anthology The Unforgotten , 1928

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):

Inserted: 3 poems

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

  1. ^ 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 .