Sturm (novella)

1923 novella by Ernst Jünger

Sturm

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. It has a frame story set in the days before the Somme Offensive on the Western Front, where 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

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Sturm was serialised in 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

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* 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

## References

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1. ^ 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.
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.
3. ^ Sturm. OCLC 919316040. Retrieved 2016-02-23 - via WorldCat.

## Further reading

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* Coudres, Hans Peter des (1967). "Bemerkung über Sturm". Eckart Jahrbuch (in German). pp. 137–152.137-152&rft.date=1967&rft.aulast=Coudres&rft.aufirst=Hans+Peter+des&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Sturm+(novella)" class="Z3988">

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Ernst Jünger

Autobiography
and essays|

* Storm of Steel (1920)
* The Worker: Dominion and Form (1932)
* "The Peace" (1945)
* An der Zeitmauer (1959)

Fiction|

* Sturm (1923)
* On the Marble Cliffs (1939)
* Heliopolis (1949)
* Visit to Godenholm (1952)
* The Glass Bees (1957)
* Eumeswil (1977)
* Aladdin's Problem (1983)
* A Dangerous Encounter (1985)

Works about|

* One Man's War (1982 documentary)
* 102 Years in the Heart of Europe (1998 documentary)

Miscellaneous|

* Antaios
* Jünger-Haus Wilflingen

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