Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in 1929 in Kaufbeuren and grew up in Nuremberg. Expelled from the Hitler Youth, he studied literature and philosophy at Erlangen, Freiburg, Hamburg and the Sorbonne, and in 1955 defended a thesis on Clemens Brentano. An editor at Stuttgart radio under Alfred Andersch, a member of Group 47, winner of the Büchner Prize in 1963, he founded in 1965 a journal whose texts fed the student movement of 1968, and stayed in the United States and Cuba. A poet, essayist and translator, he died in Munich in 2022.

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• PoetryThe Sinking of the TitanicDer Untergang der TitanicHans Magnus Enzensberger · 1978Literature