in cooperation with Matthes & Seitz Berlin

“What’s left is colourful dust,” states Ernst Jünger, not only when butterfly wings, grown dry, crumble to dust. Ernst Jünger, held against the light, reveals a view to the subversive depth of Jünger’s reflections.

Ernst Jünger, born in 1895, died in 1998, was a writer and philosopher, officer and entomologist. Fascinating and polarizing, the author stirred up discussions time and again with such works as “The Storm of Steel” (1920), “Reflections” (1949), “On the Marble Cliffs” (1939) and “Seventy Drifts Away” (1980-1995). Alfred Andresch went so far as to claim that Ernst Jünger’s importance derives not least of all from his very contentiousness.

Writers, journalists, philosophers and artists circle around Jünger’s key words, pass motifs and ideas back and forth, and set about outthinking and thinking about Jünger beyond Jünger.

A game of ideas comes up with numerous stopovers, stations that are very different and yet connected with one another through Ernst Jünger: things like adventure, a walk in the woods, mirth, pain, intoxication, reflections, flying dream, work, technique and play, and finally not to forget: Glass Bees.

This playing around with ideas is brought to the stage as a debate – a permanently oscillating battle of words somewhere between pop underground and philosophical reflection.

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