Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff
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Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff is a Danish
Denmark
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 author
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 and philosopher who has published within the genres of science fiction
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, science
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, horror
Horror fiction
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, and prose
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.

Life

Neutzsky-Wulff is the son of Aage Neutzsky-Wulff
Aage Neutzsky-Wulff
Aage Neutzsky-Wulff, born Aage Neutzsky Wulff, was a Danish writer and poet.He made his debut with "Mit livs bog" in 1921. Aage Neutzky-Wulff had several wives, including author Trolli Jørgensen from 1932 to 1935. He was the father of authors Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff and Vita Andersen, though he had...

 (1891–1967). His half-sister Vita Andersen is known for her poetry
Poetry
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 and fiction
Fiction
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.

Neutzsky-Wulff attended courses in philosophy
Philosophy
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 at the University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...

, but never finished his diploma
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. Having lived in Copenhagen
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 all of his life, he moved into an abandoned school in Vinstrup north of Randers
Randers
Randers is a city in Randers municipality on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. It is Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 60,656 . Randers city is the main town of the municipality and the site of its municipal council.-Overview:Randers municipality has 94,750 inhabitants...

 with his wife, where he presently spends his time expanding his authorship. He occasionally holds courses on themes drawn from extensive interests.

Competencies and influence

Neutzsky-Wulff has written in both fiction and non-fiction, on subjects as diverse as history
History
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, philosophy
Philosophy
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, cognition
Cognition
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, religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

, the occult
Occult
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, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 and horror fiction
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

. He also authored a number of books on computer programming
Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a...

 during the 1980s. He is mainly self-taught and has mastered several languages, including Hebrew
Hebrew language
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, Latin
Latin
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, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, French
French language
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, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and the Nordic languages
North Germanic languages
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.

Activities and interests

Neutzsky-Wulff keeps in touch with his readers through his fan magazine
Magazine
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 Bathos and his official home page. Bathos
Bathos
Bathos is an abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. While often unintended, bathos may be used deliberately to produce a humorous effect. If bathos is overt, it may be described as Burlesque or mock-heroic...

, in addition to offering reviews of mainly old horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

s, also contains in-depth articles on philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

, religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

, culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 and various esoteric subjects. In addition, the magazine expounds on the author's philosophy and on various themes in his literature.

Works

In his earliest published literature, Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff builds up his own literary universe. The Dialog om det 21. århundredes to vigtigste verdenssystemer, (1971), is a philosophical dialogue
Dialogue
Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....

 modelled on the classical style of Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism...

's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. It was translated to Latin as Systema cosmicum in 1635 by Matthias Bernegger...

. The plot is set in a not too distant future, where a Danish
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 civil war has broken out. The reader is witnessing a debate between three persons, one representing a new humanistic view on mankind and its new ideology
Ideology
An ideology is a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to...

 (or anti-ideology), called Wulffianism. Wulffianism is anarchic
Anarchism
Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...

 in the word's real sense, entailing an accept of violence as a mean and denial of modern civilization. This, as expected, caused severe public controversy. Other books from this early period of the authorship are anthologies of essays and poems, and mainly appear as supplements to the mentioned dialogue
Dialogue
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s. All of Neutzsky-Wulff's poetry is in rhyme, metrical with a touch of subtle pastiche
Pastiche
A pastiche is a literary or other artistic genre or technique that is a "hodge-podge" or imitation. The word is also a linguistic term used to describe an early stage in the development of a pidgin language.-Hodge-podge:...

.

With the episodic novel Adam Harts Opdagelser <5> (1972), Neutzsky-Wulff began to find his style and obtained henceforth crowds of fans. The book's protagonists are Adam Hart and his partner Victor Janis, both working as "occult detective
Occult detective
Occult detective stories combine the tropes of the detective story with those of supernatural horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, curses, and other supernatural elements...

s". An ironically rendered Neutzsky-Wulff himself also appears in a more secondary role. The series continues with the episodic Adam Hart og sjælemaskinen <6> (1977) Victor Janis og søn <7> (1977), both representing a more conventional novel structure, and ends with an experimental novel, Oiufael (1977), mainly written on verse. An episode from Adam Hart og sjælemaskinen was adapted as the short film Adam Hart i Sahara (1990), based on his own screenplay.

Though sometimes he breaks the traditional conventions of the genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

, Neutzsky-Wulff sees himself as an author of science fiction. He emphasizes the genre as the most prominent stage of artistic interpretations of the mythology of our time. Anno Domini
Anno Domini
and Before Christ are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars....

 (1975) tells the story of an astronaut on a strange planet, experiencing a macrohistorical version of the evolution of humankind. In Gud <8> (1976), the classical form of science fiction itself, is challenged: A group of people are, by means of an alien vessel, heading towards the planet of God. With Den 33. marts <9> (1977), the plot is altered from outer to "inner space", a platform resembling that of an American author of science fiction, Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...

. A person living in the 1970s Copenhagen discovers effects of society as mere stage equipment. Library books are empty and he is trapped within city borders. In a sanitarium
Sanatorium
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, this person "hallucinates" about another world where he features as an awaited Messiah
Messiah
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. Havet <10> (1978) is, like Anno Domini and Gud, a novel about space travel
Spaceflight
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. The supernatural setting pivots around the cards of Tarok. In Menneske <11> (1982), a computer independently achieves consciousness and decides to find out what existence as a human being is like. Consequently, it embarks on a stone age
Stone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...

 odyssey
Odyssey
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...

, following the history of man, ending in a parody
Parody
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 of the 1970s of Denmark.

Demons and computers

Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff describes by novel form esoteric initiation and demonic possession in Indsigtens sted <12> (1980). The narration is set through a schoolteacher's diary as he is experiencing increasingly interest in the occult. This is an effective horror story which distinguishes itself from his other books. For Neutzsky-Wulff, the eighties were to stand under the parole of prose. Neutzsky-Wulff had taught himself computer programming and when the first home computer
Home computer
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s entered the market, he published an introductory manual, Mikrodatamaten - Programmering og anvendelse (1982), followed by several similar guides the following years. At the time, computer programming was still seen as an intellectual pursuit in a rather anti-intellectual climate.

His prosaic studies of the supernatural followed with Okkultisme <13> (1985) and Magi
Magi
Magi is a term, used since at least the 4th century BC, to denote a follower of Zoroaster, or rather, a follower of what the Hellenistic world associated Zoroaster with, which...

 <14> (1986). Okkultisme raises its groundwork from epistemology, modern physics and neurology, as well as interpretations of visionary lyrics
Lyrics
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, for instance William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

's. The book's second part gives an historical briefing on the history of religions, from tribal
Tribe
A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term tribal society to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups .Some theorists...

 religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

 through Judaism
Judaism
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 and Christianity
Christianity
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, to Satanism
Satanism
Satanism is a group of religions that is composed of a diverse number of ideological and philosophical beliefs and social phenomena. Their shared feature include symbolic association with, admiration for the character of, and even veneration of Satan or similar rebellious, promethean, and...

. "Satanism" is in Neutzsky-Wulff's authorship used partly as a common denominator of a quite specific group, and partly as a philosophical term for the ideology of modern society. This ideology is, as explained, essentially anti-Christian.

Magi treats themes such as the supernatural, its practice, supernatural experiences and the citizens of the world beyond ours. Our present day civilization is depicted evil to an extent that hatred is given as the primary human condition (p. 222). Magi was followed by Oprindelse <15> (1988), the first and only volume of an abortive world history, covering a time line from the Big Bang
Big Bang
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 until app. 2700 BC.

Faust
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical...

, (1989) resembles, by structure and form, to a certain point the earlier "Den 33. marts". Neutzsky-Wulff's modern Faust
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical...

 is not a theologian, but rather a psychoanalyst who defies his discipline.

Brick novels

In Neutzsky-Wulff's authorship the traditional novel form now appears to be cracking, as his novels grow in size and are thoroughly embedded with several subplots parallel to the main story. Furthermore, they attain a more objective form and prosaic essence, which provides his ontological platform with deeper insights. Also the author himself becomes omnipresent, frequently either commenting on fictional actions or directly addressing the reader. 2000 (1991) is a science fictional Decameron, where a handful of persons are isolated and share information between themselves. Around them, civilization deteriorates and a brand new kind of human is born. In the epic Verden
Verden
Verden can refer to:* Verden an der Aller, a town in Lower Saxony, Germany* Verden, Oklahoma, a small town in the USA* Verden , a district in Lower Saxony, Germany...

 <16> (1994), Neutzsky-Wulff includes time travels and similar phenomena, as he tries to delete Christ from history. Døden <17> (1996), distinguishes itself from other novels by its political main theme, especially the 1990s' emerging chauvinist and neofascist tendencies. This novel attracted public spotlights, as the dissolution of the journal Faklen
Faklen
Faklen was a Danish intellectual magazine, debating humanism, contemporary Danish politics, education and philosophical themes, published in 21 issues in the period 1996–2001...

 caused a public dispute between its editors. Neutzsky-Wulff himself added yet another creation to his authorship with UFO (1999). UFO enhances his science fiction-novels of the 70s by reviewing the occult and mythological foundations of the UFO-phenomenon. In between his novel writing, Neutzsky-Wulff translated Genesis, which was published as For længe siden <19> (2000). In his Abattoir <20> (2003), he returns to his lighter style, reminiscent of the Adam Hart series.

A modern grimoire

Transcend
Transcend
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ent ambitions forges the massive arguments appearing in Rum
Rum
Rum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses, or directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak barrels...

 <21> (2001), his greatest fictional work to date, and the prose work Det overnaturlige <22> (2004) expounding on the essence and forms of religious experience and reality itself, treating much the same topics as the earlier Okkultisme and Magi, only now in much more depth. These parallel works fulfil these ambitions fully from two different holds.

The heavy Rum is illustrated with a deliberate "bad taste" by Jørgen Bitsch. The plot is set in separated rooms: A girl selling herself as a sex slave, a man in a bunker after a nuclear war
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is detonated on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage...

, an expedition to an alien planet
Alien Planet
Alien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also...

, a haunted house
Haunted house
A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property...

 investigator and finally, a poet not knowing he is an inspirational source for a mass murderer. These rooms can be thought of as interlinked: They are books read by the man in the bunker or visions seen by the slave girl etc. Neutzsky-Wulff and his wife also appear. Later, the characters exchange locations. Reality constrains itself to self-created rooms and the apparently incoherent action is deliberately supposed to influence the reader to assume a magical
Magic (paranormal)
Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...

 way of thinking. It is an abyssal book, hardly fully comprehensible by any but a few.

The prose Det overnaturlige, more or less exact than Okkultisme and Magi, is at the same time meant to displace them by writing a modern grimoire
Grimoire
A grimoire is a textbook of magic. Such books typically include instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination and also how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, and demons...

. It is information-dense, cut to the bone and indirectly demands that the reader study a number of texts only referred to in the book to properly understand it. The book describes the mystic
Mysticism
Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...

 initiation, a radical practice requiring women to be sexually enslaved
Enslaved
Enslaved may refer to:* Slavery, the socio-economic condition of being owned and worked by and for someone else* Bottom , people playing the 'slave' part in BDSM* Enslaved , a progressive black metal band from Haugesund, Norway...

 (as in Rum), whereas men have to undergo a kind of virtual castration
Castration
Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries.-Humans:...

. Themes as diverse as kabbalah
Kabbalah
Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...

, the mystic traditions of the Holy Grail
Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is a sacred object figuring in literature and certain Christian traditions, most often identified with the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and said to possess miraculous powers...

, Gnosticism
Gnosticism
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, fairy tales, Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....

 and Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

 are treated in depth.

Critique

Neutzsky-Wulff's books are quite unlike most contemporary Danish literature and can read like the texts of a strange, foreign religion at times. Time has shown that critics have a tendency to either praise them wholeheartedly or else distance themselves from them.

Novels and short stories

  • Dialog om det enogtyvende århundredes to vigtigste verdenssystemer(1971, 2. ed. 1972)
  • Adam Harts opdagelser <5> (1972, republished 2003)
  • Anno Domini: novel (1975, republished 2000)
  • Gud <9>: novel (1976) republished (1995)
  • Adam Hart og sjælemaskinen <6> (1977)
  • Victor Janis & Søn <7> (1977)
  • Oiufael (1977)
  • Den 33. marts <8> (1977)
  • Havet <10> (1978)(1996)
  • Indsigtens sted <12> (1978) (1996)
  • Menneske <11>: novel (1982)
  • Ulvens arv og andre noveller (1984)
  • Faust: novel (1989)
  • 2000: novel (1991)
  • Skrækkens ABC. Noveller for børn (1992)
  • Verden <16>: novel (1994)
  • Døden <17>: novel (1996)
  • UFO: novel (1999)
  • Rum <21>: novel (2001)
  • Abattoir <20>(2003)
  • Hjernen: novel (2007)
  • Adam Hart: novel (2007)
  • Menneskets afvikling: novel (2009)
  • 9999: novel (2010)
  • Biblen: novel (coming in 2012)

Prose (selected)

  • Mikrodatamaten, programmering og anvendelse: en bog om ZX81 BASIC (1984)
  • Okkultisme <13> (1985)
  • Programmering med COMMODORE BASIC (1985)
  • Amstrad BASIC (1985)
  • Magi <14> (1986)
  • BASIC med COMMODORE 64 (1986)
  • Comal 80 og Piccoline (1986)
  • Verdens historie. 1: Oprindelse <15> 1988
  • Postscript-programmering (1990)
  • For længe siden <19> : Første Mosebog i nyoversættelse (2000)
  • Det overnaturlige <22> (2004)
  • Menneskets afvikling (2009)

On Neutzsky-Wulff's authorship

  • Engelbreth Larsen, Rune: Forsvar for verden <18> : en indføring i Erwin Neutzsky-Wulffs forfatterskab (1994)
  • Jørgensen, Stig W.: Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, en introduktion. (Bibliografi af Listemageren) (1995)
  • Asger Harlung, Henrik Isaksen, Frank Brahe (ed.): Samtaler med Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff (2004)

Translations

  1. Dialogue about the 21st century's two most important world systems

  • <5> The Discoveries of Adam Hart
  • <6> Adam Hart and the Soulmachine
  • <3> Victor Janis and Son
  • <4> The 33. of march
  • <9> God
  • <10> The Ocean
  • <11> Man
  • <12> The Place of Insight
  • <13> Occultism
  • <14> Magic
  • <15> Origin
  • <16> The World
  • <17> Death
  • <18> Defense for the World
  • <19> A Long Time Ago
  • <20> Slaughterhouse
  • <21> Room
  • <22> The Supernatural
    The Supernatural
    The Supernatural can mean:* the supernatural* the song, "The Supernatural" by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, see A Hard Road* the book, "The Supernatural", by Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, a book on the supernatural phenomena surrounding us, presenting scientifically structured arguments for the presence...


Endnotes



  1. The book's views made editor of a Danish magazine, Elsa Gress, term his views "wannabe, half-sweet and deathsick nazi mentality". In Danish: "Fimsefin og halvlækker, dødssyg nazimentalitet").

See also

Anders Westenholz
Anders Westenholz
Anders Westenholz in Copenhagen was a Danish psychologist and writer.-Overview:Anders Westenholz became a student in 1955, and a psychologist in 1969. From 1969-76 he was employed by Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening...

, another Danish writer of fantastic
Fantastic
The Fantastic is a literary term that describes a quality of other literary genres, and, in some cases, is used as a genre in and of itself, although in this case it is often conflated with the Supernatural. The term was originated in the structuralist theory of critic Tzvetan Todorov in his work...

literature for mature readers.

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