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Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger was a German author, soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. A prolific writer of over forty books, Jünger wrote particularly in the furtherance of conservatism and against what he perceived as the spiritual oppression of man.

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Born 29 March 1895 · Died 17 February 1998 · Q76727

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Awarded Alfred-de-Vigny prize (1997).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1995).
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2026· 1 entry

Mar 13, 2026Documented record75% confidence

The Economist: Ernst Jünger

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2023· 1 entry

Sep 2, 2023Documented record69% confidence

JSTOR Daily: A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism

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2020· 1 entry

Dec 8, 2020Documented record69% confidence

welt.de: Actionszenen der Weltliteratur: Als Ernst Jünger seine Glückszahl entdeckte

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2017· 1 entry

May 18, 2017Documented record69% confidence

Bayerischer Rundfunk: 19. Mai 1962 Ernst Jünger testet Drogenpilze

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2015· 1 entry

2015Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

In paperback (ISBN 978-3-608-96105-8) and epub (ISBN epub: 978-3-608-10923-8) formats

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2013· 1 entry

May 11, 2013Documented record69% confidence

Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Letzte Worte" von Ernst Jünger - "In wenigen Augenblicken weiß ich mehr als Sie"

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2011· 1 entry

May 4, 2011Documented record69% confidence

literaturkritik.de: Ernst Jünger – mehr als eine Bilanz in einem neuen Sammelband

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2010· 3 entries

Oct 28, 2010Documented record69% confidence

ZEIT: Ernst Jünger: "Stendhal war mein Meister"

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Oct 21, 2010Documented record69% confidence

Stuttgarter Nachrichten: Ernst Jünger "Er war ein künstlerischer Mensch"

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Sep 30, 2010Documented record69% confidence

ZEIT: Ernst Jünger: Das Ideal des Ganzkörperstahlhelms

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1998· 18 entries

Feb 17, 1998Documented record86% confidence

Died 1998-02-17.

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“Bliskość dobrego nauczyciela podsuwa nam to czego w rzeczywistości pragniemy, czyniąc nas zdolnymi do bycia sobą. Stąd szlachetny wzorzec tkwi głęboko w naszych sercach, gdyż dzięki niemu przeczuwamy, do czego jesteśmy zdolni.”

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“W godzinach słabości zniszczenie jawi się nam w potwornej postaci, jak obrazy, które oglądać można w świątyniach bóstw zemsty.”

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“Podczas natarcia ogarniał nas wściekły gniew. Przepotężna żądza zabijania uskrzydlała mój krok. Wściekłość wyciskała gorzkie łzy. Niesamowita wola zniszczenia ciążąca nad polem bitwy zagęściła się w mózgach i zanurzyła je w czerwone opary. Krzyczeliśmy do siebie urywanymi bełkotliwymi zdaniami, a jakiś postronny widz mógłby sądzić że doznaliśmy nadmiaru szczęścia.”

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“Choć Gerhard od ponad pół roku mieszkał w tym mieście, każdy taki spacer stanowił dla niego misterium. Prawie nie miał wrażenia, że porusza się po ulicach i placach; wydawało mu się raczej, że ktoś prowadzi go przez amfilady i korytarze wielkiego nieznanego domu albo że błąka się w wąwozach wydrążonych w skałach.”

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“Podobnie tam, gdzie nie byłoby chwastów, tylko same owoce, skończyłoby się ogrodnictwo.”

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“Na taki widok coraz wyraźniej uświadamiam sobie, jak ogromnym cudem jest obecność zwierząt; należą one do nas jak płatki różane do kielicha róży – są materią naszego życia, naszą pierwotną siłą, która przegląda się tutaj w szlifowanym lustrze.”

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“Choćby drzewo było nie wiem jak stare: jest młode w każdym nowym kwitnieniu.”

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“Znamienne dla tej młodzieży jest nie to czy walczyła dla takiej, czy innej wartości, ale że w ogóle walczyła, nie to, że wierzyła w coś określonego, ale że w ogóle znalazła siłę, aby uwierzyć, nie to, że w najwyższym uniesieniu broniła tego, czy innego państwa, ale że w ogóle była zdolna do podobnego uniesienia.”

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“W idei narodu nie widzę nic przestarzałego, jak też w rodzinie której wartość już od czasów Oświecenia próbuje się naruszyć.”

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“Wiara w – obojętnie jaką – ideę to wielka sprawa.”

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“Siła idei wyraża się żądaniem ponoszenia ofiar, a nie obietnicą zapłaty.”

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“Państwo jest jedynie formą narodu, nie może być nigdy celem w samym sobie.”

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“Nigdy nie będzie bezsensowne to, za co umierają mężczyźni.”

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“Nie móc umrzeć to największe przekleństwo tego, co żyje, dlatego tak chętnie umierają wszelkie wzorce życia: święty i bohater.”

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“Nadciąga epoka brutalności, której nie możemy sobie wyobrazić, już nawet w niej trwamy. W obliczu zdarzeń wszelka debata stanie się pianą, ponad tym całym gąszczem frazesów, które męczą nas bezowocnością, ponad kramarzami, literatami i słabeuszami wtargnie w nową Europę wezwanie do czynu, rwąca fala z grzywą koloru krwi. Gdyż pokój nie jest dziełem tchórzy, ale miecza.”

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“Każda moc czerpie sens jedynie ze swojego przeciwieństwa.”

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“Być nacjonalistą znaczy walczyć o konieczności swego narodu wszystkimi środkami, jakie stoją do dyspozycji.”

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1997· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1997Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Alfred-de-Vigny prize (1997).

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1995· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1995Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1995).

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1995Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Received an honorary membership of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie)

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1995Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid

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1986· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1986Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1986).

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1985· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1985Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1985).

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1985Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

To mark Jünger's 90th birthday, the German state of Baden-Württemberg established Ernst Jünger Prize in Entomology

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1984· 1 entry

1984Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Spoke at the Verdun memorial, alongside his admirers, French president François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl the German chancellor, where he called the "ideology of war" in Germany before and after World War I "a calami

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1982· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1982Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1982).

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1982Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was awarded the Goethe Prize, but this was attended by a street demonstration in the City of Frankfurt on the day he received the award

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1981· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1981Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1981).

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1981Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Jünger was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca

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1980· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1980Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1980).

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1974· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1974Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Schiller Memorial Prize (1974).

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1973· 1 entry

1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Literature Prize of the Academy Amriswil (Organizer: Dino Larese; Laudations: Alfred Andersch, François Bondy, Friedrich Georg Jünger)

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1965· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1965Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Immermann-Preis (1965).

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1956· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1956Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen (1956).

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1945· 1 entry

1945Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Bertolt Brecht instructed them to "Leave Jünger alone

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1944· 1 entry

1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

After he was indirectly implicated with fellow officers who had plotted to assassinate Hitler

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1943· 1 entry

1943Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And published abroad in 1948, marked the end of his involvement in politics

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1939· 1 entry

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Rescued a wounded soldier and was again awarded the Iron Cross Second Class

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Jünger rejects the liberal values of liberty, security, ease, and comfort, and seeks instead the measure of man in the capacity to withstand pain and sacrifice

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Choosing rural seclusion and his house was searched several times by the Gestapo

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1932· 1 entry

1932Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Published The Worker, which argued that modern econonomic life was an extension of wartime total monbilisation meaning that the bourgeois order brought in by the Enlightenment was giving way to a new society organised

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1930· 1 entry

1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Denounced Hitler's opposition to the Rural People's Movement

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1927· 1 entry

1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Rejected an offer of a Nazi Reichstag seat

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1920· 1 entry

1920Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

At the suggestion of his father he self-published Storm of Steel based on some of his war diaries and was afterwards signed up by the publisher E

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1918· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1918Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Wound Badge (1918) in Gold (1918).

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1918Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Jünger was badly wounded and was awarded the Pour le Mérite, a rare decoration for one of his rank and was the last living recipient when he died in 1998

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1917· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1917Documented record84% confidence

Awarded knight of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (1917).

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1916· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1916Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Iron Cross (1914), 1st class (1916).

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Jun 15, 1916Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class (1916).

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1913· 1 entry

1913Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Jünger was a student at the Hamelin gymnasium

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1907· 1 entry

1907Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

In Rehburg, and went to school in Wunstorf with his siblings from 1907 to 1912

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1895· 1 entry

Mar 29, 1895Documented record86% confidence

Born 1895-03-29.

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