Giorgio Locchi (1923 – 25 October 1992) was an Italian journalist and writer. He was among the founders of

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Life

Also known by the pseudonym Hans-Jürgen Nigra, he was for a long time the

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correspondent for the Italian newspaper ''

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''. After graduating in law from the University of Rome, he moved to Paris in the mid-fifties. Here he came into contact with

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, with whom he created the ethnonationalist think-tank

, also known as

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. By this time he began to write for magazines like '' Éléments'' and ''

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''. He also collaborated with several magazines and newspapers including ''La Destra'', ''L'Uomo Libero'' and ''

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''. One of the leading exponents of

, he broke away from it because he was averse to

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and a supporter of

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values. He was the author of several books translated into French, German and Spanish. His works revolved around

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and

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's anti-Christian thought. Among the best known of Locchi's workes is the ''Nietzsche, Wagner e il mito sovrumanista'', which was counted among the classics of hermeneutic on

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. His works influenced authors such as

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, Pierre Vial, Pierre Krebs, Robert Steuckers and Stefano Vaj.Alain de Benoist, ''Giorgio Locchi'', ''Éléments'', n. 76, December 1992.

Works

*Giorgio Locchi and Alain de Benoist, ''Il male americano'', Roma, L.E.D.E., (1979). * Giorgio Locchi and Robert de Herte (Alain de Benoist), ''Die USA, Europas missratenes Kind'', München-Berlin, Herbig, cop., (1979). *Giorgio Locchi, ''L'essenza del fascismo'', with an essay and interview by

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, Castelnuovo Magra, Edizioni del Tridente, (1981). * Giorgio Locchi, ''Das unvergängliche Erbe'', Kassel, Thule-Seminar, (1981). *Giorgio Locchi, ''Nietzsche, Wagner e il mito sovrumanista'', preface by Paolo Isotta, Napoli, Akropolis, (1982). * Giorgio Locchi and Robert Steuckers, ''Konservative Revolution: Introducción al nacionalismo radical aleman, 1918-1932'', Valencia, Ediciones Acebo Dorado, (1990). *Giorgio Locchi, ''Definizioni'', Milano, Barbarossa, (2006). * Giorgio Locchi, ''Definiciones : los textos que revolucionaron la cultura inconformista Europea'', Molins de Rei, Barcelona Nueva República D.L., (2010). *Giorgio Locchi, ''Prospettive indoeuropee'', Roma, Settimo Sigillo, (2010). * Giorgio Locchi, ''Podstata fašismu'', Praha, Délský potápěč, (2011). * Giorgio Locchi, ''Adriano Romualdi, l'essence du fascisme et la conception sphérique du temps de l'histoire''; ''Le parti de la vie : clercs et guerriers d'Europe et d'Asia'', Saint-Genis-Laval, Éditions Akribeia, (2015). * Giorgio Locchi and Alain de Benoist, ''El enemigo americano : érase una vez América'', Torredembarra, Tarragona Fides D.L., (2016). * Giorgio Locchi, ''Figuras de la revolución conservadora'', Torredembarra, Tarragona Fides D.L., (2016).

References

Sources

* Marco Fraquelli, ''A destra di Porto Alegre : Perché la Destra è più noglobal della Sinistra'', preface by Giorgio Galli, Catanzaro, Rubbettino, 2005, p. 94. *Daniel S. Forrest, ''Suprahumanism : European man and the regeneration of history'', London, Arktos Media, 2014. * Francesco Germinario, ''Tradizione Mito Storia : La cultura politica della destra radicale e i suoi teorici'', Roma, Carocci, 2014.

External links

* Gennaro Malgieri
''Hommage à Giorgio Locchi (1923-1992)'', ''Synergies européennes'', Vouloir, February 1993
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