Ernst Jünger's travel diaries

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In addition to his famous war diaries, In Stahlgewittern (First World War) and Radiation (Second World War), Ernst Jünger wroteeleven travel diaries . The journeys from the age of 70 onwards have gone into the seventy-four age group.

Travel diaries

  • From the Golden Shell (Sicily 1929, published 1944)
  • Dalmatian stay (Croatia 1932, published 1934)
  • Myrdun (Norway 1935, published 1943)
  • Atlantic Voyage (Brazil 1936, published 1947)
  • An island spring (Rhodes 1938, published 1948)
  • A Morning in Antibes (South of France 1950, published 1960)
  • At the Saracen Tower (Sardinia 1954, published 1955)
  • Serpentara (Sardinia 1955, published 1957)
  • San Pietro (Sardinia 1956, published 1957)
  • Xylokastron (Greece 1964, published 1982)
  • Svalbard (Norway 1964, published 1982)

content

Jünger's diaries consist largely of entries marked with the place and date, which usually record observations that are followed by more general reflections. The books Dalmatian Stay , San Pietro , Serpentara and A Morning in Antibes , on the other hand, are written as a continuous text without any place or date information.

Jünger is primarily interested in nature - especially flowers and beetles -, culinary culture and history, respectively. the philosophy of history and the ancient myths associated with the places visited. Current politics and social issues are far less present. A motif that is often encountered is regret about the increasing use of technology when, for example, on his repeated visit to Sardinia, he notes that compared to the previous year, electric light is now being used in his accommodation instead of candles.

Jünger is usually accompanied, for example in Dalmatia, Rhodes, Sardinia and Spitzbergen with his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger , in Sicily and Norway with Ernst Hugo Fischer , in Antibes with Umm-el-Banine and in Xylókastron with his second wife Liselotte Jünger . The trip to Brazil takes place with a tour group, but this is not mentioned. Other trips like the one to the USA in 1958 were not used in literary terms.

According to Jünger's understanding as an author, the notations on site are the basis for subsequent processing and expansion of the diaries. Sometimes there was more than a decade between the trip and the publication of the journal. In his war diary, Strahlungen, he wrote on March 23, 1944: “Yesterday I finished copying my Sicilian diary from 1929, which I gave the title“ The Golden Shell ”. The text has increased significantly. The short notes of such travel books unfold like tea flowers during the revision. ”For example, Jünger added an epilogue to the diary Xylokastron afterwards, 16 years after the trip, which supplements the report with general thoughts on Greek mythology.

literature

  • Ernst Jünger: Complete Works , Volume 8, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-96105-8 .
  • Jan Robert Weber: Aesthetics of Deceleration. Ernst Jünger's travel diaries , Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783882215588

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmuth Kiesel : Ernst Jünger, Die Biografie , Siedler Verlag, Munich 2007 ISBN 9783886808526 , pp. 613f.
  2. ↑ Martin Halter: Atlantic Journey - Infusory Infusions of Future Worlds , in: Berliner Zeitung of October 9, 2013
  3. ↑ Heimo Schwilk : Ernst Jünger - A century of life . Piper Verlag, 2007, p. 499.
  4. ↑ Jörg Sader : In the Belly of Leviathan: Diary and Masquerade. Notes on Ernst Jünger's " Strahlungen " , Königshausen 1996, ISBN 3826011325 , p. 59.