[Juenger-list] Further to Grass/Juenger

[Tobias Wimbauer]

Dear Walter,

you mentioned Joschka Fischer. 

In the leftwing-Magazine PFLASTERSTRAND Fischer once wrote (in 1982, when the GRUENEN of Frankfort discussed the Goethe-Prize for 'the fascist' EJ), that he always had one of two books in his pocket during his leftwing fighting-times: 
EJ, Der Waldgang (The Retreat into the Forest) and EJ, Der Kampf als Inneres Erlebnis.

Since yesterday there's a copy of a Juenger's FEDERBÄLLE - inscribed by Joschka Fischer - available at www.zvab.com .

Last not least I like to cite Joschka Fischer (again, in 1982): 

„Bedenke ich meine eigene linksradikale Biographie, so kreuzte Jünger mehrmals meinen Weg. Sowohl Ernst Jünger als auch Carl Schmitt galten bereits während der Studentenrevolte im SDS als eine Art intellektueller Geheimtip, umgeben von der Aura des intellektuell Obszönen. Denn es waren Faschisten, zweifellos, und dennoch las man sie mit großem Interesse. Je militanter sich die Revolte gestaltete, je mehr der „Kämpfer“, der „Fighter“ in den Vordergrund trat, desto sinnfälliger wurden die Parallelen. Später, als längst die „Subjektivität“, die „Politik der ersten Person“ angesagt war, da las man wiederum Ernst Jünger, diesmal den Drogen-Jünger. Und noch später, als der Klassenkampf endgültig Don Juan oder fernöstlicher Erleuchtung gewichen war, da starrte das neulinke Dritte Auge auf den kosmischen Jünger, von Jüngers Affinität zur vorindustriellen Welt und seiner Zivilisationskritik ganz zu schweigen.“ Joschka Fischer, 1982

yours, Tobias



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Von: Wahe at aol.com
Gesendet: 02.09.06 15:06:12
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Simon,

agreed, he probably would have liked it, in the end a writer wants to be read 
and
he was human, wasn't he.

Although I'm not sure wether a Noble-prize publicity would have brought 
exactly
the mentioned books to more attention.

I remember about 25 years ago when I started to get interested  in Jünger I 
went through
the secondhand bookstores in Berlin. One owner presented "Die Zeitmauer" as a 
kind of
esoteric piece from the back.

But still I think there was no way the prize-committee would just have 
thought of him. I can somehow imagine
the uproar it would have caused in the media, a writer chosen of a war book 
that was not pacifistic.
Joschka Fischer, whom i consider politically bright, had to say in the same 
breath when he was asked about "Stahlgewitter"
that he read it but he preferred Remarque, just not to loose on popularity.

Greetings

Walter

In einer eMail vom 30.08.2006 13:38:35 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
funboy at attglobal.net:


> Walter, I imagine on the contrary that Juenger would have been glad to
> receive the Noble prize, if only for the fact that it would have publicized
> his works and led to a greater readership and recognition of them. One of
> his main topics of discussion when I met him in Wilflingen in 1995 was the
> lack of recognition of certain of his works which he thought were
> particularly important. (Just for interest, in this respect he cited "An der
> Zeitmauer" and "Eumeswil".) His works have so much to contribute to
> contemporary man's understanding of his existential situation and he would
> have welcomed anything that led to people reading and benefiting from them
> more - sometimes the anarch cannot avoid the limelight.
> 
> 

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