Hans Magnus Enzensberger: 90th Birthday on November 11, 2019
News10.11.2019
»One of Germany‘s leading public intellectuals.« London Review of Books
»If Enzensberger didn’t exist, he’d have to be invented.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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.
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 Gedichte 1950-2020, an entertaining tour of his poetic oeuvre and Fallobst, 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.
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