Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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    Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the

    Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books,[1] with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite
    , among many others.

    Life and career

    Enzensberger was born in 1929 in Kaufbeuren, a small town in Bavaria, as the eldest of four boys.[2] His father, Andreas Enzensberger, worked as a telecommunications technician, and his mother, Leonore (Ledermann) Enzensberger, a kindergarten teacher.[3][4] Enzensberger was part of the last generation of intellectuals whose writing was shaped by first-hand experience of Nazi Germany.[a] The Enzensberger family moved to Nuremberg in 1931.[2] Julius Streicher, the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic 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."[2]

    In 1949, after completing his

    Suhrkamp in Frankfurt.[9] He spoke several languages, intensified by travels: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish and some Russian.[1] With a volume of essays published in 1962, Einzelheiten, he entered the position of a critical intellectual which he held for life.[17]

    Between 1965 and 1975 he lived briefly in the United States (Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies Wesleyan University)[b][19] and Cuba.[20] He had the composer Hans Werner Henze invited to Cuba in 1969, and wrote the libretto for his El Cimarrón for baritone and three instrumentalists based on the memories of the escaped slave Esteban Montejo.[21]

    Kursbuch, first edition

    From 1965, Enzensberger edited the magazine

    W.G. Sebald, among others.[3] Together with Gaston Salvatore, Enzensberger was the founder of the left-wing monthly TransAtlantik [de].[24] The literary journal survived for only two years.[3]

    In his 1987 book Ach Europa! Wahrnehmungen aus sieben Ländern, Enzensberger used already the terms Ossi and Wessi.[25]

    Personal life

    Enzensberger was the older brother of the author Christian Enzensberger.[26] He was married three times, including Masha, and had two daughters, including Theresia Enzensberger [de].[3] Mathematics was his passion.[27]

    Enzensberger lived in Norway, Italy, Mexico, Cuba, the United States, West Berlin, and since 1979 in Munich[28][5] where he died on 24 November 2022, at age 93.[11][29][30]

    Work

    Enzensberger wrote in a sarcastic, ironic tone in many of his poems.

    German as a foreign language, (Die Suche).[33] He often wrote his poems and letters in lower case.[34] Tumult, written in 2014, is an autobiographical reflection of his 1960s as a left-wing sympathizer visiting the Soviet Union and Cuba.[35][36] His own work has been translated into more than 40 languages.[7]

    Landsberger Poesieautomat (Poetry-Machine)

    Enzensberger also invented and collaborated in the construction of a machine which automatically composes poems (

    2006 Football World Cup to commentate on games.[38][39]

    Enzensberger criticized the

    Enzensberger translated Adam Zagajewski, Lars Gustafsson, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden and César Vallejo.[41][2][42] With Irene Dische he wrote the libretto for Sallinen's fifth opera The Palace.[43] The theatre premiere of a drama after his long poem Der Untergang der Titanic on 7 May 1980 was directed by George Tabori at the Werkraumtheater Munich.[44]

    Honors and awards

    In 2009, Enzensberger received a special lifetime recognition award given by the trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry,[7] which also awards the annual Griffin Poetry Prize.[28]

    Published works

    Bibliography (English)

    Articles

    Notes

    1. ^ Contemporaries include Günter Grass (1927–2015), Martin Walser (born 1927) and Jürgen Habermas (born 1929).
    2. ^ Enzensberger left the United States prematurely in protest against US foreign policy.

    References

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    6. ^ Enzensberger, H.M. (1955). Über das dichterische Verfahren in Clemens Brentanos lyrischem Werk (in German). Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
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    21. ^ "Hans Werner Henze: "El Cimarrón"". www.elcimarronensemble.com. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
    22. ^ "Über das Kursbuch". Archived from the original on 1 June 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
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