Hans Magnus Enzensberger - 90th Birthday on 11 November 2019
»One of Germany‘s leading public intellectuals.« London Review of Books
»If Enzensberger didn’t exist, he’d have to be invented.« FAZ
On November 11, 2019, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is celebrating his 90th birthday. The author of poetry, non-fiction works and novels, he is one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals. Born in the Bavarian Allgäu in 1929, Enzensberger studied Languages, Philosophy and Literary Studies at universities in Freiburg and Paris, among others. In 1955, he completed a doctoral thesis on Clemens Brentano’s poetics. Two years later, he published his first book, a volume of poetry entitled verteidigung der wölfe (defence of the wolves).
From 1965 onwards, Suhrkamp Verlag published the magazine Kursbuch, which Enzensberger co-founded and which added an important voice to the discours on Germany‘s self-understanding. Ever since then, a great number of works have been published by Suhrkamp Verlag, including the volume Mausoleum (1978), which he portrays the contradictions of »progress« in 37 ballads, or Europe, Europe (1989), in which Enzensberger takes a look onto our continent from the margins. Tumult, in which Enzensberger deals with his own past, received great response in 2015. Beyond that, Hans Magnus Enzensberger rendered outstanding services to Suhrkamp Verlag by becoming a member of the supervisory board in 2013.
For his various literary activities, Enzensberger has received numerous accolades, including the Georg-Büchner-Prize in 1963 and most recently the Frank-Schirrmacher-Prize in 2015. This year, Suhrkamp Verlag is going to publish the works Poems 1950-2020, an entertaining tour of his poetic oeuvre and Windfalls - Just a Notebook, in which Enzensberger confronts us, sharp-tongued, outright and resolute, with zeitgeist and mainstream. Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s works have been translated into more than 50 languages.
Europe, Europe
Album
Civil Wars
Dialogues between the Immortals, the Living and the Dead
Particulars
The Elixirs of Science
Enzensberger’s Panoptikum
An Expert Review in 89 Numbers
Windfalls
Fortuna and Probability
»for means of brutal communication«
The History of the Clouds
Hammerstein or Idiosyncrasy
A Handful of Anecdotes
Mr Zed's Reflections
Money, Money, Money!
The Labyrinth of Intelligence
Josefine and I
Kiosk
The Short Summer of Anarchy
Lighter than Air
My Favourite Flops, followed by a wealth of ideas
Mausoleum
Politics and Crime
Political Crumbs
Tender Monster Brussels or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
Terror's Men
»Write down everything that is true«
Tumult
Skirmishes and Scholia
Survival Artists
The Sinking of the Titanic
Gone!
Zigzag