»Gretha Jünger and the Thing Itself. A Portrait with Carl Schmitt«: Gretha Jünger influenced the relationship between Carl Schmitt and Ernst Jünger. Before 1945, the tensions in this triad shaped Schmitt's relationship to the NS regime. In the post-war era, their conflicts revealed deeper ideological splits. These changed the triadic relationship, since Gretha Jünger, with her view of the world was closer to Carl Schmitt than her husband. Nonetheless Carl Schmitt broke off contact with her in 1953, which is discussed in dazzling detail here for the first time.

Ingeborg Villinger studied political science and literature, history and comparative literature at the Universities of Freiburg and Siegen, then she edits Carl Schmitt's estate. After her doctorate on Carl Schmitt and her habilitation on Ernst Cassirer, she was professor for political science at the University of Freiburg until 2009. Among other publications, she is the editor of the correspondence between Gretha Jünger and Carl Schmitt and published the biography »Gretha Jünger. The Invisible Woman« with Klett-Cotta in 2021.

Gretha von Jeinsen ¿ Herkunft und Prägungen
Gretha und Ernst Jünger ¿ Von Hannover nach Leipzig (1922¿1925)
Berliner Annäherung I: Ernst Jünger und Carl Schmitt (1930¿1933)
Berliner Annäherung II: Gretha Jünger und Carl Schmitt (1930¿1933)
Goslar und Überlingen: Carl Schmitts Patenschaft und »die Sache selbst« (1934¿1936)
Gretha und die Klippenrunden in Berlin: Schmitts Exitstrategie des »Oberförsters« (1939 f.)
Pariser Morbidezza, Bomben in Kirchhorst, Ernstels Fall und Schmitts Advice (1940¿1945)
Ende des Krieges, Schmitts Internierung und Gretha Jüngers Attitüde (1945¿1947)
Ravensburg und Goslar: Trennung, Auszug, Krisen-Triade und »die Sache selbst« (1948¿1950)
Duschka und Carl Schmitt: Tod und Ende einer Freundschaft (1950¿1953)
Epilog: Wer ihn infrage stellt, ist sein Feind. (1953)
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