» We Call Your Wolves (Wir rufen Deine Woelfe)

Blood Axis, "Wir rufen Deine Wölfe"

Originally appeared on the compilation CD and LP Wir rufen Deine Wölfe (Ahnstern).

For this recording, Blood Axis was:

B'eirth: harp

Eltho: voice

Michael Moynihan: voice, bodhrán

Annabel Lee: violin, melodeon

Robert Ferbrache: guitar

Sigurd: howls

Music by Blood Axis. Lyrics by Friedrich Hielscher. 

Recorded at Absinthe Studios, Westminster, Colorado. Engineering and production by Robert Ferbrache.

From the CD liner notes:

Both the life and work of Friedrich Hielscher (31 May 1902 – 6 March 1990) are multifaceted. Hielscher was a Freikorps soldier, a committed member of a student dueling corps, the holder of a dual doctorate in law, a national revolutionary writer, the founder of a religious system and the head of a heathen-panentheist “Independent Free Church,” a resistance fighter against Hitler, a Gestapo prisoner, a poet, a hermit in the Black Forest... He was personally acquainted with Oswald Spengler and Friedrich Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth, and his friends included the writer Ernst Jünger, the first German president Theodor Heuss, and the Jewish religious philosopher Martin Buber. Today, he can increasingly be viewed as one of the key figures of a “Secret Germany.” It was faith that led Hielscher through all the stations of his eventful life: a faith which overcame Christianity and—in the tradition of the early medieval heretic Johannes Scotus Eriugena, the German “poet prince” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and not least of all Friedrich Nietzsche—which drew from the essential sources of Western thought. Within this faith, the “one true God” and the gods of ancient Europe were not mutually exclusive. Hielscher’s poem “Wir rufen Deine Wölfe,” written in 1979 at the Rimprechtshof, his secluded farm in the Black Forest, is an expression of this faith and bears testament to a deep knowledge about the Return of the Gods. In a spiritual sense, this knowledge linked Friedrich Hielscher with a few others, such as Ernst Jünger and Friedrich Georg Jünger, but also, going back further to the nineteenth century, with Friedrich Hölderlin.

– Hraban

(Translation: Gerhard Hallstatt/Michael Moynihan)

More information about the original compilation CD at:

http://www.geocities.com/ahnstern/woelfe.htm

CD available from Steinklang Records: www.steinklang.at

An article about the life and work of Friedrich Hielscher appears in vol. 2 of the journal TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition, available from:

www.radicaltraditionalist.com

This song will appear on the forthcoming Blood Axis CD Utlimacy (due out spring/summer 2009). This CD includes all Blood Axis compilation tracks recorded from 1989–2004. 

Ultimacy will appear on the Storm label, released via TESCO Germany:

www.tesco-germany.com