Andreas thalmayr enzensberger biography

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His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2024). After him are Pierre Brice, Abdel Halim Hafez, Isabel Sarli, Peter L. Berger, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar. Before him are Heinz Linge (1913), Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727), Otto of Bamberg (1060), Karl von Bülow (1846), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), and Max Klinger (1857).

Buenaventura Durrutis Leben und Tod, Prosa, 1972
Gespräche mit Marx und Engels, 1970
Palaver. Wahrnehmungen aus sieben Ländern, Prose, 1987

  • Mittelmass und Wahn, Essays, 1989
  • Zukunftsmusik, Poems, 1991
  • Die Tochter der Luft, Drama, 1992
  • Die Große Wanderung, Essays, 1992
  • Zickzack, Aufsätze, 1997
  • Der Zahlenteufel, Novel, 1997
  • Wo warst du, Robert?, Novel, 1998
  • Leichter als Luft: Moralische Gedichte, Poems, 1999
  • Schreckens Maenner: Versuch ueber den radikalen Verlierer (5th ed.), Essay, 2006
  • Einzelheiten I & II, Essays, 2006
  • Gedichte 1950-2005, Poems, 2006
  • Im Irrgarten der Intelligenz / Ein Idiotenführer, Essay, 2007
  • Hammerstein oder der Eigensinn, Biography, 2008
  • Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems, 1968
  • Politics and Crime, 1974
  • The Consciousness Industry: On Literature, Politics and the Media, 1974
  • The Havana Inquiry, 1974
  • Mausoleum: Thirty-Seven Ballads from the History of Progress, 1976
  • Raids and Reconstructions: Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture, 1976
  • The Sinking of the Titanic: A Poem, 1978
  • Critical Essays, 1982
  • Dreamers of the Absolute: Essays On: Politics, Crime and Culture, 1988
  • Europe, Europe: Forays Into a Continent, 1989
  • Political Crumbs, 1990
  • Mediocrity and Delusion: Collected Diversions, 1992
  • Selected Poems, 1994
  • Civil Wars: From L.A.

    to Bosnia, 1994

  • Civil War, 1994
  • Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa, 1997
  • The Number Devil, 1997
  • Selected Poems, 1999
  • Esterhazy: The Rabbit Prince, 2000 (with Irene Dische and Michael Sowa)
  • Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, 2000
  • Where Were You, Robert? also known as Lost in Time, 2000
  • The Silences of Hammerstein, 2009
  • Unlikely Progeny, 2010 (under the pseudonym Linda Quilt)
  • A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations, 2010
  • Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance, 2011
  • Brussels, the Gentle Monster: or the Disenfranchisement of Europe, 2011

    • Articles

  • "Tour of the City".

    Though primarily a poet and essayist, he also makes excursions into theater, film, opera, radio drama, reportage, translation. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. Brosamen, Essays, 1982

  • Ach, Europa! Before him are Len Deighton, John Polanyi, Gordon Moore, Sam Nujoma, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Georgios Roubanis.

    Politische Überlegungen, Essays, 1974
    Mausoleum. He is part of the last generation of intellectuals whose writing was shaped by first-hand experience of the Third Reich. It's not in my character. He also invented and collaborated in the construction of a machine which automatically composes poems. "I have always been incapable of being a good comrade.

    Until 1957 he worked as a radio editor in Stuttgart. He has written novels and several books for children (including The Number Devil, an exploration of mathematics) and is co-author of a book for German as a foreign language (Die Suche). After him are Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Gottfried Benn (1886), Anton Praetorius (1560), Theodor Storm (1817), and Kurt Tucholsky (1890).

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    Hans Magnus Enzensberger Biography

    Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929), is a German author and poet, also known under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr.

    Since 1985 he has been the editor of the prestigious book series Die Andere Bibliothek, published in Frankfurt, and now containing almost 250 titles. Before him are Jernej Kopitar, Monique Wittig, Michael Connelly, Ljudevit Gaj, Marshall Rosenberg, and Ugo Foscolo. It was used during the 2006 Football World Cup to commentate on games.

    With Irene Dische he wrote the libretto for Aulis Sallinen's fifth opera The Palace.

    In 2009, Enzensberger received a special Lifetime Recognition Award given by the trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, which also awards the annual Griffin Poetry Prize.

  • 1963 Georg Büchner Prize
  • 1980 Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings
  • 1985 Heinrich-Böll-Preis; see also Heinrich Böll
  • 1993 Erich-Maria-Remarque-Friedenspreis; see alsoErich Maria Remarque
  • 1998 Heinrich-Heine-Preis; see also Heinrich Heine
  • 2002 Prince of Asturias Communications and Humanities award
  • 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award
  • 2009 Sonningprisen - awarded for "commendable work for the benefit of European culture"
  • 2012 Enzensberger is set to receive an honorary degree from Bard College in New York
  • Verteidigung der Wölfe, Poems, 1957
  • Viele schöne Kinderreime, 777 poems for children, 1962
  • Einzelheiten, Essays, 1962
  • Politik und Verbrechen, Essays, 1964
  • Deutschland, Deutschland unter anderem, political commentary, 1967
  • Das Verhör von Habana, Prose, 1970
  • Constituents of a Theory of the Media, 1970
  • Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie.

    Among people deceased in 2022, Hans Magnus Enzensberger ranks 77. The Enzensberger family moved to Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of National Socialism, in 1931. It may be a defect, but I can't help it."

    Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.

    He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi.

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