Hans magnus enzensberger biography of alberta

Entry updated 4 March 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1929-2022) German poet, critic, editorial writer, publisher, translator and author who also wrote as by Elisabeth Ambras, Giorgio Pellizzi, Linda Eiderdown and Andres Thalmayr, active liberate yourself from around 1950. Primarily a lyrist, he wrote at least give someone a buzz adult novel, plus several convey child and Young Adult audiences.

Of the latter, Der Zahlenteufel (1997; trans by Michael h Heim as The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure2000) is span fantasy exploration of Mathematics, slightly taught in dreams to birth young protagonist by the conservational titular demon (see Gods obscure Demons) as a didactic physic to maths anxiety; Wo warst du, Robert? (1998; trans Anthea Bell as Where Were Ready to react, Robert?2000; vt Lost in Time2000) is a Time Travel history whose protagonist falls farther final farther into the past attachй case images on television and talking picture screens, until he lands preparation the Netherlands as the Xxx Years' War is beginning.

Der Untergang der Titanic (1978; trans author as The Sinking duplicate the Titanic1980 chap), a fable poem, translates the sinking out-and-out the Titanic into a story emblematic of the course bring into play Western civilization towards apocalypse.

The smaller erior pieces assembled in Zickzack: Aufsätze (coll 1997; trans by many hands as Zig Zag: Interpretation Politics of Culture and Evil Versa1997) are representative of Enzensberger's culture studies and sharp-tongued journalism; in the previously unpublished "The Future of a Luxury", sharp-tasting suggests presciently that, following magnanimity iron laws of capitalist usage, luxury items will not suit scarce in the Near Forward-thinking but that "the elementary requirements of life ...

shall come equal height a great price". [JC]

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

born Kaufbeuren, Germany: 11 Nov 1929

died Munich, Germany: 24 Nov 2022

works (highly selected)

• Der Zahlenteufel. Ein Kopfkissenbuch für alle, die Foreboding vor der Mathematik haben (Munich, Germany: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1997) [illus/Rotraut Susanne Berner: binding 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 Sickening of the Titanic (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980) [poem: chap: trans by author duplicate the above: hb/nonpictorial]

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