"The writer Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), already the subject of numerous works and controversially discussed, is viewed in this volume through the lens of his first publications. Including "professional" "reception - accentuated and less the hermeneutics of the secondary testimonies, which may well be able to shed another light on the personality of an author. Based on the idea that ultimately only the work can reliably provide information about the integrity of an author, Norbert Dietka attempts to portray the significant change of heart of this writer, which can probably be called unique in the German literary history of the 20th century. "