biography
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Enzenberger, Hans Magnus
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pronunciation:
[entsenberger]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Writer and poet, born in Kaufbeuern, Bavaria, S Germany. He studied German and philosophy, then became a radio producer and later worked in Norway and Italy as a freelance writer. His development as a poet and critic was influenced by Brecht. Social and political comment dominates his poetry, which includes verteidigung der wölfe (1957), landesprache (1960), and blindenschrift (1964). He has also written radio plays, including Nacht über Dublin (1978) and Rachels Lied (1969), the stage play Das Verhör von Habana (1970), and the novel Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie. Buenaventura Durrutis Leben und Tod (1972). One of the leading German literary figures of the 20th-c, he has worked as a publisher's reader, critic, and translator of, among others, John Gay and William Carlos Williams, and as editor of the Marxist periodical Kursbuch. He was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1963. |
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