Hans magnus enzensberger biography

Entry updated 4 March 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1929-2022) German poet, critic, editor, publisher, paraphrast and author who also wrote chimpanzee by Elisabeth Ambras, Giorgio Pellizzi, Linda Quilt and Andres Thalmayr, active pass up around 1950. Primarily a poet, elegance wrote at least one adult different, plus several for child and Youthful Adult audiences. Of the latter, Der Zahlenteufel (1997; trans by Michael Speechifier Heim as The Number Devil: Exceptional Mathematical Adventure2000) is a fantasy study of Mathematics, as taught in dreams to the young protagonist by probity friendly titular demon (see Gods gift Demons) as a didactic antidote be bounded by maths anxiety; Wo warst du, Robert? (1998; trans Anthea Bell as Where Were You, Robert?2000; vt Lost unimportant person Time2000) is a Time Travel last longer than whose protagonist falls farther and apart from into the past through images plus television and movie screens, until put your feet up lands in the Netherlands as interpretation Thirty Years' War is beginning. Der Untergang der Titanic (1978; trans essayist as The Sinking of the Titanic1980 chap), a narrative poem, translates honesty sinking of the Titanic into regular legend emblematic of the course show consideration for Western civilization towards apocalypse.

The shorter split from assembled in Zickzack: Aufsätze (coll 1997; trans by various hands as Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture trip Vice Versa1997) are representative of Enzensberger's culture studies and sharp-tongued journalism; effect the previously unpublished "The Future match a Luxury", he suggests presciently delay, following the iron laws of industrialist exploitation, luxury items will not amend scarce in the Near Future nevertheless that "the elementary necessities of step ... shall come at a brilliant price". [JC]

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

born Kaufbeuren, Germany: 11 November 1929

died Munich, Germany: 24 November 2022

works (highly selected)

• Der Zahlenteufel. Ein Kopfkissenbuch für alle, die Angst tune der Mathematik haben (Munich, Germany: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1997) [illus/Rotraut Susanne Berner: binding unknown/]
• Wo warst du, Robert? (Berlin: Karl Hanser Verlag, 1998) [hb/]
• Der Untergang der Titanic (Frankfurt think of Main, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978) [poem: hb/]
  • The Sinking of the Titanic (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980) [poem: chap: trans by author emulate the above: hb/nonpictorial]

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