Friedrich Juergenson

Friedrich Jürgenson (born February 8, 1903 in Odessa , † October 15, 1987 in Höör , Schonen , Sweden ) was an Estonian painter , opera singer and documentary filmmaker of Danish- Swedish descent. He was a pioneer of transcommunication research and is considered to be the discoverer of the electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).

Life

Jürgenson was the son of a doctor practicing in Odessa of Danish descent and a Swedish mother. The parents came to the Black Sea from what is now Estonia . After the First World War and the February Revolution in 1917 , Jürgenson studied painting at the Odessa Art Academy and singing and music at the Odessa Conservatory .

In 1925 the family returned to Estonia, where Jürgenson initially continued his painting and singing studies, but then moved to Berlin to continue his studies . In 1932, Jürgenson moved to Palestine . He stayed there for six years, continued his studies, but at the same time started a very successful career as a painter and opera singer in Palestine.

In 1938 Jürgenson left Palestine and went to Milan , where he continued his education and performed as a singer. When he visited his parents in 1943, he fell ill and the damp, cold weather damaged his voice, which is why he gave up his professional career as a singer and concentrated only on painting. He drew naturalistic, preferring portraits , landscapes and still lifes . Because of the Second World War he went to neutral Sweden, lived in Stockholm , where he also married his wife Monica and received Swedish citizenship .

In Sweden, the multilingual talented Jürgenson learned Swedish as his tenth language. During the following years he portrayed wealthy Swedes and painted Stockholm landscapes. In 1949 he sketched the excavations in Pompeii , with these pictures even convinced the Holy See of his talent and received the offer to document the archaeological excavations near Vatican City . In the following year he therefore returned to Rome , but after four months he got pneumonia while painting in the damp excavation caves . The Vatican doctors cured him. When Pope Pius XII. Seeing Juergenson's work, he asked Juergenson to portray him . In the end he even painted four portraits of the Pope, who was interested in EPP research and at the time was informed about Juergenson's work. From now on he was given "free rein" in Pompeii and returned there several times to paint.

In 1957, Jürgenson bought a tape recorder to record his singing, perceiving strange spherical noises and telepathic messages that he attributed to his artistic sensitivity. The following year he went to his first major art exhibition in Pompeii, but continued his telepathic experiments after his return to Stockholm. “I didn't hear a voice, sound, or whisper. It was completely silent. ” He later reported that in the spring of 1959 he had “ received the message from a central monitoring station in space ” from which humanity was being observed. He tried to record these messages on tape.

In the following years, Jürgenson continued his experiments with the tape documentation of spherical voices (Electronic Voice Phenomenon, EVP). While he initially believed in voices from space, he was later certain that he could hear the voices of the deceased "from the other side" . A certain experience, he later reported, then completely changed his life: while listening to recorded bird calls, he heard the voice of his deceased mother on tape, who called him by his nickname: “Friedel, can you hear me? Here's Mommy. "

In 1964, Jürgenson, who meanwhile lived in Mölnbo south of Stockholm, published his book Rösterna Från Rymden (Saxon & Lindström Förlag, Stockholm, 1964) and gave his first and much-acclaimed press conference. International research societies and scientists for paranormal things showed great interest in his research, including Friedbert Karger from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich , Hans Bender from the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , US societies for parapsychology and individuals like Konstantin Raudive or the married couple Claude and Ellen Thorlin, who visited him in Sweden and also started EPP research.

Jügenson continued his experiments by reviewing the tape that was running, but leaving pauses to allow inaudible answers at first. While listening to the tape, he heard voices in different languages ​​such as Swedish, German, Russian, English or Italian - all languages ​​that he spoke himself. In the spring of 1960 a voice asked him to use the radio as a medium. He used this method until his death: He connected a microphone, tape recorder and radio and believed that he was having “real-time conversation” with his “friends”. After several experiments, he fixed the receiving frequency between 1445 and 1500 kilohertz . The frequency 1485 kHz is therefore now called the “Jürgenson frequency”.

In 1965, Jürgenson took up painting again, but tape recordings remained his main activity. At the same time he went to Pompeii again. In 1966, Swedish television financed the documentary Pompeii - a cultural relic that must be preserved . In 1967 the Hermann Bauer Verlag in Freiburg im Breisgau published the book Radiotelephone with Deceased on Jürgenson's EPP research and in 1968 four documentaries were produced: The Temples at Paestum and the City of Temples and Graves , Death of Birds in Italy , The Miracle of the Blood of St Gennaro and a film about his own archaeological work in Pompeii. In 1968 his book Radio och microphone contact med de Döda (Nybloms Förlag, Uppsala) was published, which was only published in 1981 under the title Radiotelephone with deceased in Germany.

In 1969, through the mediation of Archbishop Bruno Bernhard Heim , Jürgenson was awarded the Commander-in-Chief of the Order of Gregory for his documentary The Fisherman from Gallilea - On the Grave and Stool of Peter , which was given to him personally by Pope Paul VI. was presented even though Jürgenson did not belong to any religious community at the time. Soon afterwards he made a film about the life of this Pope and received the papal commission to paint three pictures of this, his second, Pope. During this time, Juergenson also got permission to do his own excavations in Pompeii and discovered the governor's palace of Pompeii.

In the 1970s, too, Jürgenson continued his painting and tape recordings. He moved from Mölnbo to Höör in the southern Swedish province of Schonen (Skåne). Due to his age, he stayed at home most of the time, and only rarely went on trips to Italy, where he had talks about founding an EPP research institute. In 1978 he gave his third press conference and gave many lectures. Back then, he predicted that humanity would soon be able to receive messages on television. He named his work "Audioscopic Research". The German version ( radio with deceased ) of his book Radio och Microphone Contact med de Döda was translated into Dutch, Italian and Portuguese in the early 1980s. In 1985 he gave his last press conference, which was also televised nationwide. When he died in October 1987, Jürgenson left several hundred tapes behind.

The Swedish installation artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff founded the Friedrich Jürgenson Foundation in connection with an exhibition in 2000 , of which he is the chairman and which is based in the Färgfabriken Stockholm cultural center .

Works

painting

• Alt-Reval , album, 1942
• Staden mellan broarna , Sanct Görans konstförlag, 1948
• Staden kring strömmarna , Sanct Görans konstförlag, 1948

Books

• Rösterna Från Rymden (English: Voices from the Universe ), Saxon & Lindström Förlag, Stockholm, 1964 - German: Radiotelephony with the deceased. A form of practical technical and physical contact with the afterlife in keeping with the atomic age , Verlag Hermann Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1967 - English: Breakthrough. An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead , 1971 - Dutch: Gesprek met de doden. Communicatie met paranormale stemmen , Verlag Fidessa, 1976, ISBN 9062365051 or ISBN 9789062365050
• Radio and microphone contact med de Döda , Nybloms Förlag, Uppsala 1968 - German: Radiotelephony with the deceased. Practical contact with the beyond , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-442-11727-5 or ISBN 978-3442117277 - further new editions until 1996

Movies

• The bridge to immortality. The Gate to Eternity , VHS video, director: Rolf Olsen, Munich o. J.
• Pompeii - a cultural relic that must be preserved , Documentation, 1966
• The Temples at Paestum and the City of Temples and Graves , Documentation, 1968
• Death of Birds in Italy , documentary, 1968
• The Miracle of the Blood of St Gennaro , documentary, 1968
• The Fisherman from Gallilea - On the Grave and Stool of Peter , Documentation, 1969

Awards

• Pope Paul VI honored Jürgenson 1969 with the commander's level of the Gregorius order .

Exhibitions

• In 2000 the installation artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff organized a comprehensive retrospective of the complete works of Friedrich Jürgenson in the Färgfabriken cultural center with his exhibition Friedrich Jürgenson - From the Studio for Audioscopic Research .
• From March 22 to April 12, 2004, Carl Michael von Hauswolff organized an exhibition on Jürgenson's work at Portikus Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main , in which he placed his tape archive at the center of the exhibition.
• In 2009 Carl Michael von Hausswolff created the sound sculpture Friedrich Jürgenson 1485.0 kHz on behalf of the Stockholm gallery Niklas Belenius - a small radio that constantly transmits the frequency 1485.0 kHz.

literature

• Carl Michael von Hausswolff : Friedrich Jürgenson (1903–1987) , detailed biography (English), Stockholm 2000 ( online )
• Raymond Buckland: The spirit book , 2005 ( digitized version )
• Constance Victoria Briggs: Encyclopedia of the Unseen World , 2010, p. 174 ( digitized )
• Hans Bender: For the analysis of extraordinary voice phenomena on tape. Exploratory experiments on the recordings by Friedrich Juergenson , in: ZSPP 1970, Volume 12, Pages 226-238

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Juergenson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography in Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
• Tape voices (with photo)
• Collaboration between Jürgenson and Raudive
• Biography (English) with photos

Individual evidence

1. ^ Raymond Buckland: The spirit book , 2005 ( digitized version )
2. ^ Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
3. ↑ Portikus exhibition no. 125 ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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