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Sturm (novella)
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 1963 book edition | |
| Author | Ernst Jünger |
|---|---|
| Translator | Alexis P. Walker |
Publication date | 11–27 April 1923 |
Published in English | 1 October 2015 |
| Pages | 101 |
Sturm is a 1923 World War I novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger.
Plot
[edit]Sturm has a frame story set in the days before the Somme Offensive on the Western Front. A group of German officers meet to discuss the war and listen to the literary sketches read by one of their members, Lieutenant Sturm.
Publication
[edit]Sturm was serialised in the Hannoverscher Kurier from 11 to 27 April 1923.[1] The novella was forgotten even by Jünger until it was rediscovered in 1960.[2] It was published in book form in 1963. An English translation by Alexis P. Walker was published by Telos Press Publishing in 2015.[3]
Translations
[edit]- Sturm, Dutch translation by Tinke Davids, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam 1984
- Lieutenant Sturm, French translation by Philippe Giraudon, Éditions Viviane Hamy, Paris 1991
- Il tenente Sturm, Italian translation by Alessandra Iadicicco, Guanda, Milano 2001
- Sturm, Swedish translation by Urban Lindström, Bokförlaget Augusti, Lund 2006
- Лейтенант Штурм, Russian translation by Vladimir Mikushevich, Vladimir Dal, St. Petersburg 2010
- El teniente Sturm, Spanish translation by Carmen Gauger, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona 2014
- Sturm, English translation by Alexis P. Walker, Telos Press Publishing, New York 2015
- Sturm, Ukrainian translation by Gleb Parfenov, Dipa, Kyiv 2019
Adaptation
[edit]A dramatic monologue based on the novella played at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg in 2014–2015. It was written and directed by Hermann Schneider and starred Sven Mattke.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Nevin, Thomas R. (1996). Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. 79. ISBN 0-8223-1879-2.
- ^ Kazecki, Jakub (2012). Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing]. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4438-3899-3.
- ^ Sturm. OCLC 919316040. Retrieved 2016-02-23 – via WorldCat.
- ^ "Drei zusätzliche Vorstellungen von Ernst Jüngers „Sturm"". Main-Post (in German). 22 December 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Coudres, Hans Peter des (1967). "Bemerkung über Sturm". Eckart Jahrbuch (in German). pp. 137–152.
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