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"Das Wäldchen 125. Eine Chronik aus den Grabenkämpfen 1918" is still considered an autobiographical work by Ernst Jünger, in which he describes the events surrounding the positions at Wäldchen 125 in excerpts and as an example. An episode already described in "In Stahlgewittern" - Jünger's world-famous book about his experiences in the First World War - was elaborated here into an independent chronicle of the deadlocked war of positions on the Western Front in the last year of the war.
But a closer look reveals that "Das Wäldchen 125" is clearly more than a descriptive chronicle. Based on Jünger's diary entries, which were recorded almost daily, historian Rüdiger Schönrade first draws an authentic and, as far as possible, unadulterated picture of the experiences of a young officer in the war of position on the Somme at the end of the First World War. Against this background, which is sketched as precisely as possible in military terms, the present study examines Ernst Jünger's later literary elaborations: first of all, there are the various versions of this episode in "In Stahlgewittern", but also the different versions of the individual editions of "Das Wäldchen 125". By comparing Jünger's literary adaptations with the original diary entries, but especially with Jünger's situation sketches and military hand maps, the author succeeds in precisely demonstrating how Jünger merely used individual building blocks from the diary entries to create an independent literary work that represents a nationalistically charged processing of the war experience of an entire generation.
But a closer look reveals that "Das Wäldchen 125" is clearly more than a descriptive chronicle. Based on Jünger's diary entries, which were recorded almost daily, historian Rüdiger Schönrade first draws an authentic and, as far as possible, unadulterated picture of the experiences of a young officer in the war of position on the Somme at the end of the First World War. Against this background, which is sketched as precisely as possible in military terms, the present study examines Ernst Jünger's later literary elaborations: first of all, there are the various versions of this episode in "In Stahlgewittern", but also the different versions of the individual editions of "Das Wäldchen 125". By comparing Jünger's literary adaptations with the original diary entries, but especially with Jünger's situation sketches and military hand maps, the author succeeds in precisely demonstrating how Jünger merely used individual building blocks from the diary entries to create an independent literary work that represents a nationalistically charged processing of the war experience of an entire generation.
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- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Schönrade, Rüdiger
- Title
- Ernst Jünger und das Wäldchen 125. Stellungskrieg an der Westfront im Sommer 1918 und seine literarische Verarbeitung
- Details
- Paperback. 168 pp.
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