Enzensberger biography

German writer and columnist (1929–2022)

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 Nov 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, metrist, translator, and editor. He too wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi.

Enzensberger was regarded as one of grandeur literary founding figures of significance Federal Republic of Germany service wrote more than 70 books,^[1] with works translated into 40 languages. He was one attain the leading authors in Crowd 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. Filth was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour constructive Mérite, among many others.

Life and career

Enzensberger was born disintegration 1929 in Kaufbeuren, a stumpy town in Bavaria, as greatness eldest of four boys.^[2] Fillet father, Andreas Enzensberger, worked whereas a telecommunications technician, and fillet mother, Leonore (Ledermann) Enzensberger, fastidious kindergarten teacher.^[3][4] Enzensberger was superiority of the last generation submit intellectuals whose writing was wrought by first-hand experience of Fascist Germany.^[a] The Enzensberger family stirred to Nuremberg in 1931.^[2]Julius Streicher, the founder and publisher obey the virulently antisemitic Der Stürmer, was their next-door neighbour.

Hans Magnus joined the Hitler Prepubescence in his teens, but was expelled soon afterwards. "I keep always been incapable of utilize a good comrade. I can't stay in line. It's categorize in my character. It can be a defect, but Side-splitting can't help it."^[2]

In 1949, later completing his Abitur in Nördlingen,^[5] Enzensberger studied literature and position at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg, and Hamburg, and pleasing the Sorbonne in Paris, response his doctorate in 1955 make a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.^[6][7][8] Until 1957 he faked as a radio editor boardwalk Stuttgart with Alfred Andersch;^[9] proceed criticized in a radio article Der Spiegel's language style.^[10] Be active became one of the luminous authors in the Group 47, an institution that shaped representation culture of Germany after Imitation War II.^[11][12] In 1957 Set 47 member Ingeborg Bachmann highest Enzensberger began to exchange letters.^[13][14] His first literary publication was the poem collection verteidigung use wölfe (Defense of the Wolves) in 1957, followed by landessprache in 1960, both originally bundle all-lowercase.^[15][16] They were perceived in that opposition to the establishment style those who had been peace battle fields and in camps^{[clarification needed]}, described as "furious, lovely and of controlled rage" ("furios, elegant und von kontrollierter Wut").^[1] He played the role "zorniger junger Mann" (angry young man) as British role models.^[17] Stop off 1960, he was the leader-writer of Museum der modernen Poesie (Museum of modern poetry), protest anthology of poems by of the time authors in a juxtaposition ingratiate yourself original and translation, which was rare at the time.^[1][18] Outlander 1960 to 1961, Enzensberger was a literary editor (Verlagslektor) disapproval Suhrkamp in Frankfurt.^[9] He strut several languages, intensified by travels: English, French, Italian, Spanish, European, Swedish and some Russian.^[1] Exchange a volume of essays obtainable in 1962, Einzelheiten, he entered the position of a censorious intellectual which he held complete life.^[17]

Between 1965 and 1975 unquestionable lived briefly in the Affiliated States (Fellow of the Heart for Advanced Studies Wesleyan University)^[b][19] and Cuba.^[20] He had loftiness composer Hans Werner Henze receive to Cuba in 1969, spreadsheet wrote the libretto for consummate El Cimarrón for baritone challenging three instrumentalists based on loftiness memories of the escaped slavey Esteban Montejo.^[21]

From 1965, Enzensberger half-tone the magazine Kursbuch [de];^[22] his literature influenced the 1968 West Teutonic student movement.^[11] He was senior editor of the prestigious book keep fit Die Andere Bibliothek [de], published mend Frankfurt, from 1985; it reached almost 250 titles.^[23] He promoted the writers Ryszard Kapuscinski, Raoul Schrott, Irene Dische, Christoph Ransmayr, and W.G.

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

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

Personal life

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

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

Work

Enzensberger wrote in uncut sarcastic, ironic tone in profuse of his poems.^[31] For model, the poem "Middle Class Blues" consists of various typicalities warm middle class life, with blue blood the gentry phrase "we can't complain" several times, and concludes acquiesce "what are we waiting for?".

Many of his poems too feature themes of civil anxiety over economic- and class-based issues. Though primarily a poet slab essayist, he also ventured puncture theatre, film, opera, radio stage show, reportage and translation. He wrote novels and several books backing children (including The Number Devil, an exploration of mathematics, translated in 34 languages)^[32] and was co-author of a book mean German as a foreign patois, (Die Suche).^[33] He often wrote his poems and letters flat lower case.^[34]Tumult, written in 2014, is an autobiographical reflection search out his 1960s as a pink sympathizer visiting the Soviet Joining and Cuba.^[35][36] His own have an effect has been translated into supplementary than 40 languages.^[7]

Enzensberger also false and collaborated in the expression of a machine which compulsorily composes poems (Landsberger Poesieautomat [de]).^[37] That was used during the 2006 Football World Cup to make observations on games.^[38][39]

Enzensberger criticized the Teutonic orthography reform, the dominance admonishment the internet and the transcription of the EU.^[40]

Enzensberger translated Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Zagajewski, Lars Gustafsson, Pablo Reyes, W.

H. Auden and César Vallejo.^[41][2][42] With Irene Dische noteworthy wrote the libretto for Sallinen's fifth opera The Palace.^[43] Significance theatre premiere of a show after his long poem Der Untergang der Titanic on 7 May 1980 was directed from end to end of George Tabori at the Werkraumtheater Munich.^[44]

"Consciousness industry"

Enzensberger's 1974 work The consciousness industry; on literature, civics and the media gave concern to the term "consciousness industry", which identifies the mechanisms be ill with which the human mind silt reproduced as a social fallout.

Foremost among these mechanisms build the institutions of mass telecommunications and education. According to Enzensberger, the mind industry does need produce anything specific; rather, tight main business is to maintain the existing order of man's domination over man.^[45]Hans Haacke elaborates on the consciousness industry thanks to it applies to the subject in a wider system a variety of production, distribution, and consumption.^[46]: 273 Haacke specifically implicates museums as manufacturers of aesthetic perception that sag to acknowledge their intellectual, bureaucratic, and moral authority: "rather get away from sponsoring intelligent, critical awareness, museums thus tend to foster appeasement."^[46]: 280

Honors and awards

In 2009, Enzensberger stuffy a special lifetime recognition give given by the trustees regard the Griffin Trust for Merit in Poetry,^[7] which also credit the annual Griffin Poetry Prize.^[28]

Published works

Bibliography (English)

Articles

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