Auf der Netzseite http://www.martin-co.se/proj1.htm fand ich folgende Ausf= =FChrungen zu einem Interview-Film mit EJ: Ernst J=FCnger: 102 Years in the heart of Europe =20 =20 In February 1996, Jesper Wachtmeister and Bj=F6rn Cederberg took the train f= rom Stockholm to Wilflingen in Germany. They were hoping to be granted an = interview with the German writer, Ernst J=FCnger, who at the age of 102, not= oriously had refused to give any more interviews. Jesper and Bj=F6rn went to= the local Guest-house "zum L=F6wen" to find out whether J=FCnger was at home = or not - he was at home. They hadn=B4t traveled all this way in vain. Dresse= d up nicely in their Sunday best dark suits, they walked over to J=FCnger=B4s = home and knocked on his door. They were lucky, reluctantly Liselotte, J=FCng= er=B4s 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 J=FCnger. He=B4s been dwelling in the central areas of power, of= European culture, politics and science since the 1910:s. He=B4s been partak= ing in crucial calamities and catastrophes that for a long time tore our c= ontinent asunder in ways that are still hurting. He=B4s been following the c= urrents of ideas that have marked and characterised our century from the m= oment they were born until they became extinct, or proved vigorous enough = to survive - Expressionism, futurism, communism, fascism, functionalism, e= xistentialism, minimalism, pop art, the hippie movement, maoism, postmoder= nism, to name a few. Today it would be hard to find a living human being who equals 102 year = old Ernst J=FCnger concerning the sum of first-hand personal experience of w= orld events. Probably, no European still alive has been moving within so m= any disparate milieus or met so many of the personalities who took a centr= al part in forming our century. In 1918 he received, in person, the highes= t German military honour from Hindenburg. During the 20:s, he discussed po= litics with Berthold Brecht and Goebbels in Berlin, and in the 40:s, art w= ith Picasso in Paris. He also discussed philosophy with Heidegger. During = World War II, he conspired against Hitler with Rommel and Stauffenberg. In= the 50:s he and his friend Albert Hofmann were the first to experiment wi= th LSD. On his 100th anniversary, he was visited and celebrated by Mitterr= and and Helmuth Kohl. The film Ernst J=FCnger and the myth of the modern portrays the 1900:s in = Europe from the viewpoint of Ernst J=FCnger as our guide. This is a film abo= ut our century. About secularisation. About the occidental man=B4s emancipat= ion from God and Christianity, by trying to establish himself on the evacu= ated throne. The result is a technical evolution where the amount of knowl= edge 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 n= ews-reels from our century, one becomes aware of the formal similarities b= etween the three major different ideologies communism, fascism and liberal= ism. 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 ou= r thinking in the 20th century. At the same time this becomes a comment to= Ernst J=FCnger=B4s 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 wi= th Ernst J=FCnger. Ernst J=FCnger died on February 17, 1998 - in March he woul= d have been 103 years old.=20 =20 Wei=DF jemand, wo man eine VHS- oder DVD-Kopie erhalten / erwerben kann=3F Beste Gr=FC=DFe, Tobias Wimbauer www.waldgaenger.de =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr!=20 Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/=3Fx=3D13
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