Giorgio Locchi (15 April 1923 – 25 October 1992)[Pierluigi Locchi, "Sur Giorgio Locchi," in Giorgio Locchi, Wagner, Nietzsche et le mythe surhumaniste (Paris: La Nouvelle Librairie, 2022).] was an Italian journalist and writer. He was among the founders of GRECE.
Life
Also known by the pseudonym
Hans-Jürgen Nigra, he was for a long time the
Paris correspondent for the Italian newspaper
Il Tempo.
[ Una fogliata di libri , Il Foglio, 1 September 2011.][Marcello Veneziani, De Benoist, idee ribelli per superare la crisi, Il Giornale, 23 April 2012.] After graduating in law from the University of Rome, he moved to Paris in the mid-fifties. Here he came into contact with Alain de Benoist, with whom he created the ethnonationalist think-tank
GRECE, also known as
New Right. By this time he began to write for magazines like
Éléments and
Nouvelle École. He also collaborated with several magazines and newspapers including
La Destra,
L'Uomo Libero and
Secolo d'Italia.
One of the leading exponents of New Right,[Adriano Scianca, Giorgio Locchi : Quel giornalista intellettuale che inventò la «Nouvelle droite», Libero, 10 October 2014, p. 26.][Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes, London, Arktos, 2012, p. 116.][Marcello Veneziani, Il secolo sterminato, Milano, Rizzoli, 1998, p. 148.] he broke away from it because he was averse to democracy and a supporter of Conservative Revolutionary movement values.[Marco Tarchi, Cinquant'anni di nostalgia, a cura di Antonio Carioti, Milano, Rizzoli, 1995, p. 148.]
He was the author of several books translated into French, German and Spanish. His works revolved around Roman Empire, anti-Americanism and Nietzsche'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 Richard Wagner.[Paolo Isotta, La rivoluzione di Wagner, Corriere della Sera, 4 April 2005, p. 31.]
His works influenced authors such as Guillaume Faye,[ Entretien Guillaume Faye, Jeune Résistance, n°21, 2001, p. 19.] Pierre Vial, , Robert Steuckers and Stefano Vaj.[Alain de Benoist, Giorgio Locchi, Éléments, n. 76, December 1992.]
Works
In English
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Definitions: The Texts that Revolutionized Nonconformist Culture (London: Arktos Media, 2024)
In other languages
In Czech
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Podstata fašismu (Praha: Délský potápěč, 2011).
In French
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"Adriano Romualdi, l'essence du fascisme et la conception sphérique du temps de l'histoire," in Philippe Baillet, Le parti de la vie: clercs et guerriers d'Europe et d'Asia (Saint-Genis-Laval: Éditions Akribeia, 2015).
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Définitions: Le textes qui ont révolutionné la culture non conforme (Paris: La Nouvelle Librairie, 2022).
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Wagner Nietzsche et le mythe surhumaniste (Paris: La Nouvelle Librairie, 2022).
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With Guillaume Faye, Sur Heidegger et le mythe surhumaniste (Paris: La Nouvelle Librairie, 2025).
In German
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With Robert de Herte (Alain de Benoist), Die USA, Europas missratenes Kind (München-Berlin: Herbig, 1979).
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"Über den Sinn der Geschichte," in Pierre Krebs (ed.), Das unvergängliche Erbe, Kassel, Thule-Seminar, (1981).
[Full text at archive.org (accessed 21 May 2025).]
In Italian
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With Alain de Benoist, Il male americano (Roma: L.E.D.E., 1979).
[Full text at archive.org (accessed 21 May 2025).]
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L'essenza del fascismo, with an essay and interview by Marco Tarchi (Castelnuovo Magra: Edizioni del Tridente, 1981).
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Nietzsche, Wagner e il mito sovrumanista, preface by Paolo Isotta, (Napoli: Akropolis, 1982).
[ Complete text at uomo-libero/archive.org (accessed 22 May 2025).]
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Definizioni (Milano: Barbarossa, 2006).
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Prospettive indoeuropee (Roma: Settimo Sigillo, 2010).
In Spanish
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With Robert Steuckers, Konservative Revolution: Introducción al nacionalismo radical aleman, 1918-1932 (Valencia: Ediciones Acebo Dorado, 1990).
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Definiciones: los textos que revolucionaron la cultura inconformista Europea (Molins de Rei: Barcelona Nueva República D.L., 2010).
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With Alain de Benoist, El enemigo americano: érase una vez América (Torredembarra: Tarragona Fides D.L., 2016).
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Figuras de la revolución conservadora (Torredembarra: Tarragona Fides D.L., 2016).
Sources
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Marco Fraquelli, A destra di Porto Alegre : Perché la Destra è più noglobal della Sinistra, preface by Giorgio Galli, Catanzaro, Rubbettino, 2005, p. 94.
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Daniel S. Forrest, Suprahumanism : European man and the regeneration of history, London, Arktos Media, 2014.
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Francesco Germinario, Tradizione Mito Storia : La cultura politica della destra radicale e i suoi teorici, Roma, Carocci, 2014.
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