Biography
Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren on 11 November 1929 and grew up in Nuremberg. He studied literature and philosophy in Erlangen, Hamburg and at the Sorbonne, among other places, and earned his doctorate in 1955 with a thesis on Clemens Brentano. He made his name with the poetry collection verteidigung der wölfe (1957) and received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1963. From 1965 to 1975 he edited the journal Kursbuch, and later, with Franz Greno, the book series Die Andere Bibliothek. His major works include The Short Summer of Anarchy (1972) and the verse epic The Sinking of the Titanic (1978); for the theatre he wrote, among others, The Havana Inquiry and adapted plays by Molière and Diderot. Enzensberger died in Munich on 24 November 2022.
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