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Name
  
Hans Enzensberger

Role
  

Parents
  
Elionore Enzensberger

Movies
  
Esterhazy

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Spouse
  
Maria Aleksandrowna Makarowa (m. 1967–1980), Katharina Enzensberger

Albums
  
Esterhazy. eine Hasengeschichte von Irene Disch und Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Books
  
The Number Devil, The Silences of Hammers, Lost in Time, A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations, Europe - Europe: Forays Int

Similar People
  
Irene Dische, Ulrich Enzensberger, Anthea Bell, Lars Gustafsson, Italo Calvino

Born
  
11 November 1929 (age 91), Kaufbeuren, Germany

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren) is a German author, poet, translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr.

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Life

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Enzensberger was born in 1929 in a small town in Bavaria and is the eldest of four boys. He is part of the last generation of intellectuals whose writing was shaped by first-hand experience of the Third Reich. The Enzensberger family moved to Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of National Socialism, in 1931. Julius Streicher, the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer, was their next-door neighbour. Hans Magnus joined the Hitler Youth in his teens, but was expelled soon afterwards. "I have always been incapable of being a good comrade. I can't stay in line. It's not in my character. It may be a defect, but I can't help it."

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Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry. Until 1957 he worked as a radio editor in Stuttgart. He participated in several gatherings of Group 47. Between 1965 and 1975 he edited the magazine Das Kursbuch. Since 1985 he has been the editor of the prestigious book series Die Andere Bibliothek, published in Frankfurt, and now containing almost 250 titles. Together with Gaston Salvatore, Enzensberger was the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik. His own work has been translated into more than 40 languages.

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Enzensberger is the older brother of the author Christian Enzensberger.

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He lives in Munich.

Work

Enzensberger has a sarcastic, ironic tone in many of his poems. For example, the poem "Middle Class Blues" consists of various typicalities of middle class life, with the phrase "we can't complain" repeated several times, and concludes with "what are we waiting for?". Many of his poems also feature themes of civil unrest over economic and class based issues. Though primarily a poet and essayist, he also makes excursions into theater, film, opera, radio drama, reportage, translation. He has written novels and several books for children (including The Number Devil, an exploration of mathematics) and is co-author of a book for German as a foreign language (Die Suche). He also invented and collaborated in the construction of a machine which automatically composes poems. It was used during the 2006 Football World Cup to commentate on games.

With Irene Dische he wrote the libretto for Aulis Sallinen's fifth opera The Palace.

In 2009, Enzensberger received a special Lifetime Recognition Award given by the trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, which also awards the annual Griffin Poetry Prize.

Honors received

  • 1963 Georg Büchner Prize
  • 1980 Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings
  • 1985 Heinrich-Böll-Preis; see also Heinrich Böll
  • 1993 Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis; see also Erich Maria Remarque
  • 1998 Heinrich-Heine-Preis; see also Heinrich Heine
  • 2002 Prince of Asturias Communications and Humanities award
  • 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award
  • 2009 Sonningprisen - awarded for "commendable work for the benefit of European culture"
  • 2012 Enzensberger is set to receive an honorary degree from Bard College in New York
  • Published works

  • Verteidigung der Wölfe, Poems, 1957
  • Viele schöne Kinderreime, 777 poems for children, 1962
  • Einzelheiten, Essays, 1962
  • Politik und Verbrechen, Essays, 1964
  • Deutschland, Deutschland unter anderem, political commentary, 1967
  • Das Verhör von Habana, Prose, 1970
  • Constituents of a Theory of the Media, 1970
  • Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie. Buenaventura Durrutis Leben und Tod, Prose, 1972
  • Gespräche mit Marx und Engels, 1970
  • Palaver. Politische Überlegungen, Essays, 1974
  • Mausoleum. 37 Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts, Poems, 1975
  • Polit. Brosamen, Essays, 1982
  • Ach, Europa! Wahrnehmungen aus sieben Ländern, Prose, 1987
  • Mittelmass und Wahn, Essays, 1989
  • Zukunftsmusik, Poems, 1991
  • Die Tochter der Luft, Drama, 1992
  • Die Große Wanderung, Essays, 1992
  • Zickzack, Aufsätze, 1997
  • Der Zahlenteufel, Novel, 1997
  • Wo warst du, Robert?, Novel, 1998
  • Leichter als Luft: Moralische Gedichte, Poems, 1999
  • Schreckens Maenner: Versuch ueber den radikalen Verlierer (5th ed.), Essay, 2006
  • Einzelheiten I & II, Essays, 2006
  • Gedichte 1950-2005, Poems, 2006
  • Im Irrgarten der Intelligenz / Ein Idiotenführer, Essay, 2007
  • Hammerstein oder der Eigensinn, Biography, 2008
  • Bibliography (English)

  • Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems, 1968
  • Politics and Crime, 1974
  • The Consciousness Industry: On Literature, Politics and the Media, 1974
  • The Havana Inquiry, 1974
  • Mausoleum: Thirty-Seven Ballads from the History of Progress, 1976
  • Raids and Reconstructions: Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture, 1976
  • The Sinking of the Titanic: A Poem, 1978
  • Critical Essays, 1982
  • Dreamers of the Absolute: Essays On: Politics, Crime and Culture, 1988
  • Europe, Europe: Forays Into a Continent, 1989
  • Political Crumbs, 1990
  • Mediocrity and Delusion: Collected Diversions, 1992
  • Selected Poems, 1994
  • Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia, 1994
  • Civil War, 1994
  • Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa, 1997
  • The Number Devil, 1997
  • Selected Poems, 1999
  • Esterhazy: The Rabbit Prince, 2000 (with Irene Dische and Michael Sowa)
  • Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, 2000
  • Where Were You, Robert? also known as Lost in Time, 2000
  • The Silences of Hammerstein, 2009
  • Unlikely Progeny, 2010 (under the pseudonym Linda Quilt)
  • A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations, 2010
  • Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance, 2011
  • Brussels, the Gentle Monster: or the Disenfranchisement of Europe, 2011
  • Articles

  • "Tour of the City". Telos 29 (Fall 1976). New York: Telos Press.
  • References

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