''Sturm'' is a 1923

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

novella by the German writer

Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomology, entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir ''Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful busin ...

Plot

''Sturm'' has a

frame story A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either fo ...

set in the days before the

Somme Offensive The Battle of the Somme (; ), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 Nove ...

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

''Sturm'' was serialised in the ' from 11 to 27 April 1923. The novella was forgotten even by Jünger until it was rediscovered in 1960. It was published in book form in 1963. An English translation by Alexis P. Walker was published by Telos Press Publishing in 2015.

Translations

* ''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

A dramatic monologue based on the novella played at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg in 2014–2015. It was written and directed by and starred .

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