Friedrich Georg Jünger
Friedrich Georg Jünger | |
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Born | Hanover, German Empire | 1 September 1898
Died | 20 July 1977 Überlingen, West Germany | (aged 78)
Genre | Poetry, essays, novels |
Subject | Technology |
Spouse |
Citta Weickhardt (m. 1939) |
Relatives | Ernst Jünger (brother) |
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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 of Ernst Jünger.
Life and work
The younger brother of
His stance against
Jünger's post-war works include poetry, novels, essays and short stories. These include the monograph Nietzsche (1949) and the novel Heinrich March (1979), which traces the experiences of his generation. Important early influences on his thinking and writing had included Jean Paul, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Georg Trakl, David Hume and Oswald Spengler. Other influences included the poetry of ancient Greece, Icelandic sagas, the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin, Eduard Mörike, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff and Charles Baudelaire, his brother Ernst, Martin Heidegger, Paul Yorck von Wartenburg and Rudolf Kassner.[1]
Selected works
- Der Aufmarsch des Nationalismus (1926)
- Gedichte (1934) – poetry
- Der verkleidete Theseus (1934) – play
- Der Taurus (1937) – poetry
- Der Missouri (1940) – poetry
- Griechische Götter (1943) – essay
- Die Titanen (1944) – essay
- Die Perfektion der Technik (1946) – essay
- English translation: The Failure of Technology: Perfection Without Purpose (1949)
- Nietzsche (1949) – essay
- Grüne Zweige (1951) – autobiography
- Iris im Wind (1952) – poetry
- Die Spiele (1953) – essay
- Der erste Gang (1954) – novel
- Ring der Jahre (1954) – poetry
- Erinnerung an die Eltern (1955) – autobiography
- Schwarzer Fluß und windweißer Wald (1955) – poetry
- Zwei Schwestern (1956) – novel
- Gedächtnis und Erinnerung (1957) – essay
- Sprache und Denken (1962) – essay
- Heinrich March (1979) – novel
- Homers Odyssee (1981) – translation
See also
References
Further reading
- Fröschle, Ulrich (1997). "Die Kyklen der Kykliker. Über die Wiederkehr der 'Wiederkehr' bei F. G. Jünger". In Guber, Bettina (ed.). Erfahrung und System. Mystik und Esoterik in der Literatur der Moderne (in German). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. pp. 204–225. ISBN 978-3-531-12882-5.
- Richter, Anton H. (1982). A Thematic Approach to the Works of F.G. Jünger. Bern: ISBN 978-3-261-04943-8.
External links
- Media related to Friedrich Georg Jünger at Wikimedia Commons