{"id":1024,"date":"2022-06-30T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:07:28","slug":"memory-magic-paradise-junger-to-roth-wolfle-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Memory, Magic, Paradise: Ernst J\u00fcnger to Lotte Roth-W\u00f6lfle"},"content":{"rendered":"

When did you last compose a finely wrought message in ink to one of your favourite booksellers?<\/p>\n

I jest.<\/p>\n

An item to be filed under the rubric Occidens<\/em>\u2014things that fall, perish, pass away: a postcard sent by Ernst J\u00fcnger, in March 1975, to the Munich bookseller Lotte Roth-W\u00f6lfle.<\/p>\n

The politeness of the gesture. The subject of Magie.<\/em> The keen choice of image and aphorism.<\/p>\n

High-grade J\u00fcnger.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1.3. 1975<\/p>\n

Liebe Frau Dr. W\u00f6lfle,<\/p>\n

Schade, dass die Desiderata vergriffen waren; ich sammle immer noch Schriften zur Magie. An \u00dcberfl\u00fcssigem hat sich wieder allerhand angesammelt, doch meist Modernes und vorerst komme ich nicht zur Ausmusterung.<\/p>\n

Gute W\u00fcnsche
\nIhr Ernst J\u00fcnger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Aphorism source: Jean Paul, ’Imprompt\u00fc’s, welche ich k\u00fcnftig in Stammb\u00fccher schreiben werde’, Cotta’sches Taschenbuch f\u00fcr Damen auf das Jahr\u00a01812<\/em>, T\u00fcbingen 1812, p.287, #29.
\nSee also: S\u00e4mmtliche Werke<\/em> 32, Berlin, Reimer 1842, p.80.<\/p>\n

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Author’s Collection of Autographs and Letters<\/strong>
\nErnst J\u00fcnger to Lotte Roth-W\u00f6lfle, dated 1.3. 1975.
\nInk on postcard. Signed.<\/p>\n

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