Elements (magazine)

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elements

description German right-wing extremist magazine
Headquarters kassel
First edition 1986
attitude 1998
Frequency of publication irregular
ISSN (print) 0178-7659

Elements was a German magazine . The magazine, which appears irregularly, covered topics related to the New Right in its editions . It was founded in 1986 and was published until 1998. The subtitle read Elements of the Metapolitics for European Revival . Magazines of the same name appear in France , Italy and Belgium .

The seat of the magazine was in Kassel . The owner was the Thule-Seminar eV, classified as right-wing extremist by various state offices for the protection of the constitution . Its director, Pierre Krebs , was also the editor-in-chief, the chief editor consisted of Burkhart Weecke , Alain de Benoist , Guillaume Faye , Robert Hepp , Jordis von Lohausen and Michael Walker . Also Sigrid Hunke was on the editorial board.

As the organ of the Thule seminar, the magazine contained background articles on various ideological, cultural, philosophical and historical questions, whereas current affairs hardly played a role. Inequality and elite theories of all kinds were often used.

Philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche or theorists of the conservative revolution such as Carl Schmitt , Arthur Moeller van den Bruck or Oswald Spengler were quoted when the articles repeatedly complained about the decline of liberal societies. Set pieces of their thinking were invoked to create new right visions as well as pagan rites and mythologies. With their very specific topics and high theoretical demands, Elements only reached a small readership.

literature

  • Friedrich Paul Heller , Anton Maegerle : Thule. From folk occultism to the New Right . Butterfly publishing house. Stuttgart, 1995. ISBN 3-89657-090-0
  • Andreas Klump: Right-wing extremism and esoteric lines of connection, manifestations, open questions. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Berlin. http://www.extremismus.com/texte/esorex.htm ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  • Alfred Schobert : Networks, Viruses, Streams - Roots and the Empire or How Alain de Benoist and Carl Schmitt want to defy the “steamroller of globalization”. (In the apparatus slightly expanded version of the article in kultuRRevolution - Journal for Applied Discourse Theory Issue 44, PDF ).
  • Susanne Mantino: The 'New Right' in the 'gray area' between right-wing extremism and conservatism. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern 1992.
  • Gerhard Kern: Theosophy and Anthroposophy - A Philosophical Basis for the New Right? A philosophical basis of the new right, or: (esoteric) racism from the better society. [1]
  • Jean Cremet, Felix Krebs, Andreas Speit : Beyond Nationalism. Ideological cross-border commuters of the 'New Right'. Münster / Hamburg 1999. ISBN 3-928300-94-6