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German writer and publisher
Müller in 2012
Baal Müller (born 21 December 1969 as Carsten Müller) is a German writer and publisher associated with the German New Right. He operated the publishing house Telesma-Verlag [de] from 2003 to 2015 and is known as a promoter of neopaganism.
Müller is a practitioner and promoter of neopaganism, which he characterizes as a "religion of experience" (German: Erfahrungsreligion) where gods are understood as "basic qualities or basic characters of the world".[4] Formerly a member of the Germanic neopagan organizations Eldaring and Verein für germanisches Heidentum, his version of paganism is close to that of the historian and philosopher Reinhard Falter [de], one of his frequent collaborators. As religious influences, Müller has mentioned Friedrich Nietzsche, Klages, Schuler, Walter F. Otto, Mircea Eliade, "in some respects" Carl Jung, and the poets Stefan George, Gottfried Benn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Däubler and Rudolf Pannwitz.[4] Müller and Falter distance themselves from the racial theories and antisemitism associated with some of these writers. In the introduction to Schuler's collected writings, which Müller edited in 1997, Müller writes that Schuler's "anti-Judaism is not a racist anti-Semitism, but an anti-monotheism motivated by vitalism."[4]
Müller is politically engaged within the German New Right, having been a columnist for the magazines Junge Freiheit and Sezession, the latter published by the New Right think tank Institut für Staatspolitik [de].[5] He is critical of restorationist approaches to culture and reliance on conspiracy theories to explain decline, instead promoting a cyclical view of culture and civilization influenced by Oswald Spengler.[6] He has held readings at the New Right gathering the Orphischer Kreis and spoken at anti-Islam, far-right Pegida rallies, where he has condemned what he calls the "lying press" and established parties.[5] In January 2019 he began to work for the nationalist and right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany, handling press and social media for the party's parliamentary group in the Bavarian State Parliament. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Müller's New Right activities and use of rhetoric close to that of the Identitarian movement made his employment controversial within the party.[5]
Die Nibelungen. Nach alten Quellen neu erzählt. Arun, Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel 2005, ISBN3-935581-63-7.
Alfred Schuler: Gesammelte Werke (editor). Telesma, Munich 2007, ISBN978-3-9810057-4-5.
Kosmik. Prozeßontologie und temporale Poetik bei Ludwig Klages und Alfred Schuler. Zur Philosophie und Dichtung der Schwabinger Kosmischen Runde. Telesma, Munich 2007, ISBN978-3-9810057-3-8.
Wendische Fahrt. Gedichte. Arnshaugk, Neustadt an der Orla 2016, ISBN978-3-944064-64-2.
Hildebrands Nibelungenlied. Arnshaugk, Neustadt an der Orla 2017, ISBN978-3-944064-85-7.
Die Selbstzerstörung der Demokratie. Deutschland am Abgrund. J.K. Fischer Verlag, Gelnhausen 2020, ISBN978-3-96850-001-0.
References
^ ab"Vita". baalmueller.de (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2021.
^ abBishop, Paul (2009). "Reviewed Works: Gesammelte Werke by Alfred Schuler, Baal Müller; Kosmik: Prozeßontologie und temporale Poetik bei Ludwig Klages und Alfred Schuler. Zur Philosophie und Dichtung der Schwabinger Kosmischen Runde by Baal Müller". Modern Language Review. 104 (4): 1174. doi:10.1353/mlr.2009.0060. JSTOR25655104. S2CID246643103.