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Tumult / Tumult

»What a book!« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung  

How could so much happen in 1000 days?

An autobiographical reflection on a decade of tumult

The Russian novel: the relationship with Maria Makarowa

In 1963 the author took his first trip to Russia and unexpectedly became a guest at Khrushchev's dacha in Gagra. The result was a detailed portrait of the man and the Soviet »Thaw« politics of the period. Three years later Enzensberger traveled through the USSR from the deepest south all the way to Siberia. And it was upon this dizzying journey that the first complications of the »Russian novel« – his conflict-filled relationship with his second, Russian,...

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In 1963 the author took his first trip to Russia and unexpectedly became a guest at Khrushchev's dacha in Gagra. The result was a detailed portrait of the man and the Soviet »Thaw« politics of the period. Three years later Enzensberger traveled through the USSR from the deepest south all the way to Siberia. And it was upon this dizzying journey that the first complications of the »Russian novel« – his conflict-filled relationship with his second, Russian, wife – began. Then in 1968/1969 the poet entered into a phase of political and private tumult. In the middle of the Vietnam War he accepted an invitation to go to Wesleyan University, but only a few months later found himself lured to the Cuba of the Revolution. And, naturally, the extra-parliamentary opposition party battles in Berlin were not too far away for the poet not to become a key actor on the stage…

How does the older Enzensberger look back upon his younger self from a distance of 50 years? The answer to this question leads to a passionate argument in which each Enzensberger vigorously defends himself. A final chapter carrying the lapidary title of Subsequently qualifies as a departure from »the political and private obsessions of the '60s«. And it is here that Enzensberger commemorates the defeated and its compatriots. Indeed, the book is dedicated to »those who disappeared«.

»Enzensberger is the most important postwar writer you have never read.« London Review of Books
»Enzensberger is the most important postwar writer you have never read.« London Review of Books
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929. He died on November 24, 2022, aged 93, in Munich. As a poet, essayist, writer, biographer, editor and translator, he was one of the world’s most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929. He died on November 24, 2022, aged 93, in Munich. As a poet, essayist, writer,...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Light Poems
Year of Publication: 2023
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2023
»Light poems« in a time of severe global crises – can that work? And what are they trying to tell us? But in any case, having a poet and a visual artist as renowned as Enzensberger and Tripp present us with the illusion of life is certainly going to be entertaining. With great zest, the two disturb it, the dust of our earthly conditions in the form of people, animals and things....
Babel
Year of Publication: 2020
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2020

Babel! A word seemingly born from chaos in its alliterating, rolling urgency. The poet pulls several examples of how deception and self-deceit, misjudgements and failing routines determine...

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Windfalls
Year of Publication: 2019
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2019

»How’s the confidence of the financial astrologers doing? What does the gibberish of the daily papers tell us? How much reality is contained in the mythical models of contemporary physics and cosmology? Towards which ultimate goal is our contemporaries’ pathological mobility drifting? What is the ubiquitous craze for abbreviations hiding? And down which garden path are the fine arts trying to...

Poems 1950-2020
Year of Publication: 2019
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2019
Every five years, Hans Magnus Enzensberger presents once more the chance to discover his rich lyrical oeuvre. Enzensberger takes the opportunity to critically review his selection and enrich it with...
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An Expert Review in 89 Numbers
Year of Publication: 2019
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2019

Nature has treated people somewhat like a stepmother would. Other animals are stronger, can swim and fly better, give birth less awkwardly and do not need as much time to become adults. How can it be then that this weak creature came to be the strongest on earth? The answer, if you believe the author, has to do with the division of labour. Thanks to this trick every one of us, he believes,...

»Write down everything that is true«
Year of Publication: 2018

The hitherto unpublished and unknown correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger allows one to relive how, after the Second World War, two of the most prominent writers in the German language chose to depict and regard the world, literature and the publishing industry, but also how they wished to present and be regarded themselves.


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A Handful of Anecdotes
Year of Publication: 2018
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2018

»It is hard to shake off one’s date of birth. M. drags his around with him, too.« The first twenty years of life are baggage that a person is forever stuck with. But...

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Survival Artists
Year of Publication: 2018
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2018

The 20th century was the heyday of writers who had survived state terror and purges with all the ethical and political ambivalences that this entailed. How did they manage to do that? Were they...

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Money, Money, Money!
Year of Publication: 2015
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2015
Every time Aunt Fé comes to visit, the rather ordinary daily life of the Federmann family is turned upside down. Elderly, jaunty Aunt Fé is a sly lady. She lead an adventurous life and...
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Gone!
Year of Publication: 2014
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2014
What’s going on in Theresia’s grandparents’ house? More and more things continue to disappear in an inexplicable manner: from the corkscrew to an old radio with a magical eye to the massive oak buffet table – until the entire house goes up in flames. But has anything really disappeared or have people simply forgotten where those things have gone? Theresia follows events closely, at first as a...
Mr Zed's Reflections
Year of Publication: 2013
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2013
Who is this plump Mr., who shows up every afternoon at the same spot in the city park for almost a year, and who engages passers-by in quick-witted repartee? A wise man, a wisecracker, a clown, a...
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Panopticon
Year of Publication: 2012
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2012

In his new book, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the master of the political and literary essay, discloses information about matters big and small, daily and commonplace themes, astounding his readers...

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Brussel, the Gentle Monster or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
Year of Publication: 2011
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2011
Who dictates that we should have thirty-four-digit bank transfer codes, questions the legal systems of apparently sovereign nations and sets up rescue systems of dizzying proportions that exceed the...
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My Favourite Flops, Followed by a Wealth of Ideas
Year of Publication: 2010
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2010
In this black book, Enzensberger sets his sights on a subject that many artistic contemporaries of his shun: failure.

»There are few experiences that I owe so much to; I would even...
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Album
Year of Publication: 2010
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2010
What is this »album« about?
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then?

A jumble, a jotter, a...
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»for means of brutal communication«
Year of Publication: 2009

In 1959, just after Uwe Johnson’s relocation to West berlin and the publication of his debut novel Speculations About Jakob, the correspondence and friendship between Johnson and Hans Magnus Enzensberger commences. Over the course of eight years they communicate about the situation of literature and politics and discuss the scopes of political activism. At the same time,...

Skirmishes and Scholia
Year of Publication: 2009
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2009
They remained unpublished for decades: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Frankfurt lectures on poetry from the winter semester of 1964/65. Using these extensive texts, Enzensberger's writings on...
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Fatal Numbers
Year of Publication: 2009
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2009
Since time immemorial man has developed ways of coping with the seemingly unpredictable vicissitudes of his existence. But the modern age was not content with the old incantations of the shamans and...
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Hammerstein or Idiosyncrasy
Year of Publication: 2008
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2008
A grand opus on the most fatal period of German history and an outstanding figure until now not the subject of a biography. The results of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's research into the life of...
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The Labyrinth of Intelligence
Year of Publication: 2007
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 2007
Intelligence, along with flexibility and the ability to work in a team, is the cardinal virtue of today’s world. However, using tests to make objective sense of subjective results leads to...
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