Thought maybe the info underneath might be of interest to the listmembers. With Juengerian greetings
Bertil Haggman Martin & Co - Project One In February 1996, Jesper Wachtmeister and Bjoern Cederberg took the train from Stockholm to Wilflingen in Germany. They were hoping to be granted an interview with the German writer, Ernst Juenger, who for many years notoriously had refused to give any more interviews. Jesper and Bjoern went to the local Guest-house "zum Loewen" to find out whether Juenger was at home or not - he was at home. They hadn't travelled all this way in vain. Dressed up nicely in their Sunday best dark suits, they walked over to Juenger's home and knocked on his door. They were lucky, reluctantly Liselotte, Juenger´s wife, let them in for what would be the first of four rare and unique interviews. Few people have lived in the nucleus of European events for such a long time as Ernst Juenger. He has been dwelling in the central areas of power, of European culture, politics and science since the 1910:s. He has been taking part in crucial calamities and catastrophes that for a long time tore our continent asunder in ways that are still hurting. He has been following the currents of ideas that have marked and characterised our century from the moment they were born until they became extinct, or proved vigorous enough to survive - Futurism, communism, fascism, existentialism, the hippie movement, to name a few. At the age of 102 Ernst Juenger was probably the only European still alive that had moved within so many disparate milieus or met so many of the personalities who took a central part in forming our century. In 1918 he received, in person, the highest German military honour from Hindenburg. During the 1920s, he discussed politics with Berthold Brecht and Goebbels in Berlin, and in the 1940s, art with Picasso in Paris. He also discussed philosophy with Heidegger. During World War II, he conspired against Hitler with Rommel and Stauffenberg. In the 1950s he and his friend Albert Hofmann were the first to experiment with LSD. On his 100th anniversary, he was visited and celebrated by Mitterrand and Helmuth Kohl. The film 102 YEARS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE portrays the 1900s in Europe from the viewpoint of Ernst Juenger. This is a film about our century, about secularisation. A film about the occidental man's emancipation from God and Christianity, by trying to establish himself on the evacuated throne. The result is a technical evolution where the amount of knowledge is doubled every 5 to 10 years and the creation of societies based on consumption, economical growth and a common welfare net. In viewing the news-reels from our century, one becomes aware of the formal similarities between the three major different ideologies communism, fascism and liberalism. They all have an unrestrained belief in technical progress, the mass movements and the idolisation of the worker. The film becomes a view of how the cult of these systems has effected our thinking in the 20th century. At the same time this becomes a comment to Ernst Juenger's life and writings - as contradictory and controversial as the history of the 20th century. 102 YEARS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE contains the last interviews ever made with Ernst Juenger. Ernst Juenger died on February 17, 1998 - in March he would have been 103 years old.
