Friedrich Georg Jünger | |
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 Sculpture at theJünger-Haus Wilflingen | |
| Born | (1898-09-01)1 September 1898 |
| Died | 20 July 1977(1977-07-20) (aged 78) |
| Genre | Poetry, essays, novels |
| Subject | Technology |
| Spouse | [1] |
| Relatives | Ernst Jünger (brother) |
Friedrich "Fritz" Georg Jünger (1 September 1898 – 20 July 1977) was a German writer and lawyer. He wrote poetry,cultural criticism and novels. He was the younger brother ofErnst Jünger.
The younger brother ofErnst Jünger, he volunteered for military service in 1916 and was seriously wounded in theBattle of Langemarck. After theFirst World War he studiedlaw andcameralism at the universities ofLeipzig andHalle-Wittenberg. After moving to Berlin, he and his brother became involved with thenationalist magazineWiderstand and the people around it such asFriedrich Hielscher andErnst Niekisch.[1] In 1926, he published a national revolutionary manifesto,Der Aufmarsch des Nationalismus, where he praised the virility of an envisioned revolutionary state in the following terms: "Let thousands, nay millions, die; what meaning have these rivers of blood in comparison with a state, into which flow all the disquiet and longing of the German being!"[2]
His stance againstNational Socialism is explicit in the poem "Der Mohn", published in the collectionGedichte (1934), and he was interrogated by theGestapo because of it. He was interrogated again in 1937 when Niekisch was arrested. The same year he left Berlin to live with Ernst inÜberlingen, and two years later the brothers moved toKirchhorst nearHanover. Here he wroteThe Failure of Technology, a study of mechanization with lines of reasoning that later would become associated with theecological movement. After getting married, he moved back to Überlingen and settled in what had been his parents' house. From there he wrote about Greek mythology and began to work on a translation of theOdyssey, eventually published in 1981.[1]
Jünger's post-war works include poetry, novels, essays and short stories. These include the monographNietzsche (1949) and the novelHeinrich March (1979), which traces the experiences of his generation. Important early influences on his thinking and writing had includedJean Paul,Christian Dietrich Grabbe,Georg Trakl,David Hume andOswald Spengler. Other influences included thepoetry of ancient Greece, Icelandicsagas, the poetry ofFriedrich Hölderlin,Eduard Mörike,Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff andCharles Baudelaire, his brother Ernst,Martin Heidegger,Paul Yorck von Wartenburg andRudolf Kassner.[1]
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