Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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, biographer, editor and translator, he was one of the world’s most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals.
Premio d’Annunzio 2006
Premio Principe de Asturias 2002
Heinrich Heine Prize 1998
Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis 1993
Heinrich Böll Prize 1985
Büchner Prize 1963
Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1962
Premio d’Annunzio 2006
Premio Principe de Asturias 2002
Heinrich Heine Prize 1998
Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis 1993
Heinrich Böll Prize 1985
Büchner Prize 1963
Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1962
PUBLICATIONS
Light Poems
Babel
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...
Bengali rights (Parampara)
Windfalls
»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
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An Expert Review in 89 Numbers
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«
The hitherto unpublished and unknown correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Magnus Enzensberger allows one to relive how, after the Second World War, two of the most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.
One was...
Album
»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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Skirmishes and Scholia
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Terror's Men
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Josefine and I
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Dialogues between the Immortals, the Living and the Dead
The famous philosopher Zhuangzi is having an argument with a man who has been dead for 500 years. Diderot receives an obtrusive reporter from the 20th century for an interview. An ageing...
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A History of Clouds
English world rights (Seagull), Russia (selection; Obedinennoe), Serbia (selection; Akademska Knjiga), Greece (selection; Panoptikon)
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The Elixirs of Science
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Lighter than Air
»As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. […]...
Serbia (selection; Akademska Knjiga), Greece (selection; Panoptikon)
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Zig Zag
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Kiosk
The kiosk around the corner – outside, it has a lot on offer. Inside, in the semi-darkness, sits a man or a woman, but what they are thinking is a different story altogether. In the...
Russia (selection; Obedinennoe), Serbia (selection; Akademska Knjiga), Greece (selection; Panoptikon)
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Civil Wars
»In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany’s most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of...
English world rights (New Press), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), France (Gallimard)
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The Great Migration
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Zukunftsmusik
Russia (selection; Obedinennoe), Serbia (selection; Akademska Knjiga), Greece (selection; Panoptikon)
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Mediocrity & Delusion
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Political Crumbs
»How many more times do I have to tell you: There is no art without pleasure«, Enzensberger once claimed in one of his poems. That is a maxim he acts on in this book as...
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The Sinking of the Titanic
A comdey. A comedy? Enzensberger‘s play is an epic poem in thirty-three cantos about the story that is as gripping now as it was back then. The catastophe that happened in 1912 is documented and...
Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Russia (Ivan Limbakh), France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Denmark (Gyldendal), Japan (Shobunsha)
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Particulars
The essays of this collection dispel the legend that thoughts had nothing to do with the world from whence they came. Enzensberger analyses a production process: the creation not of...
Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Japan (Shobunsha)
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In Defence of Wolves
Russia (selection; Obedinennoe), Poland (selection; A5), Serbia (selection; Akademska Knjiga)
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