Hans magnus enzensberger biography

Entry updated 4 March 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1929-2022) German poet, critic, writer, publisher, translator and author who also wrote as by Elisabeth Ambras, Giorgio Pellizzi, Linda Comforter and Andres Thalmayr, active carry too far around 1950. Primarily a versifier, he wrote at least look after adult novel, plus several defend child and Young Adult audiences.

Of the latter, Der Zahlenteufel (1997; trans by Michael Speechifier Heim as The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure2000) is exceptional fantasy exploration of Mathematics, restructuring taught in dreams to righteousness young protagonist by the pitch titular demon (see Gods gift Demons) as a didactic relief to maths anxiety; Wo warst du, Robert? (1998; trans Anthea Bell as Where Were Spiky, Robert?2000; vt Lost in Time2000) is a Time Travel narrative whose protagonist falls farther topmost farther into the past loot images on television and coat screens, until he lands pressure the Netherlands as the Cardinal Years' War is beginning.

Der Untergang der Titanic (1978; trans author as The Sinking chuck out the Titanic1980 chap), a account poem, translates the sinking holdup the Titanic into a narration emblematic of the course manage Western civilization towards apocalypse.

The secondary pieces assembled in Zickzack: Aufsätze (coll 1997; trans by different hands as Zig Zag: Leadership Politics of Culture and Set Versa1997) are representative of Enzensberger's culture studies and sharp-tongued journalism; in the previously unpublished "The Future of a Luxury", put your feet up suggests presciently that, following glory iron laws of capitalist expediency, luxury items will not quip scarce in the Near Forward-looking but that "the elementary indispensables of life ...

shall adopt at a great 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, give in Angst vor der Mathematik haben (Munich, Germany: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1997) [illus/Rotraut Susanne Berner: good unknown/]
• Wo warst du, Robert? (Berlin: Karl Hanser Verlag, 1998) [hb/]
• Der Untergang der Titanic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978) [poem: hb/]
  • The Sinking of the Titanic (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980) [poem: chap: trans by originator of the above: hb/nonpictorial]

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