Jünger/Harrer

[Gary Kern <gkern@ucr.campus.mci.net>]

Dear Jüngerites:

On the assumption that you will be interested in anything about our hero
that appears on the web, I send the following link to DER STERN
No.43/97, which I just discovered.  "Mit ihr will ich alt werden":

http://stern.de/97/43/mag/kultur/schriftsteller.html

I trust that others will send links when they find them.  However, we
have had the link to "Radiance with Ernst Jünger" about four times now.

Has anyone noticed a parallel between the criticism of Jünger and the
hoopla over the discovery that Heinrich Harrer, author of SEVEN YEARS IN
TIBET, was an SS officer before he went to India and thence to Tibet.  I
mean the attempt to knock down a heroic figure who has gone his own way
for many decades.

See the stories on Harrer in STERN.  First, "Ein Held mit brauen
Flecken":

http://www.stern.de/97/23/mag/ausland/oesterreich.html

And then "Eine äusserst unangenehme Sache":

http://www.stern.de/97/41/mag/ausland/usa.html

Your reactions would be interesting.

GK