- ENZENSBERGER, Hans Magnus
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
born in 1929, is a prolific writer of poetry, prose, drama, and
cultural criticism. He has been called one of the greatest living
poets of the German language. With a background in literary criticism
and philosophy as well as writing a dissertation about Brentano,
he has also been influential as a translator and editor,particularly
of the literary magazine, Kursbuch . His literary debut was
verteidigung der wölfe [1957; defense of the wolves].
Notable are also his critique of modern times in Der Untergang
der Titanic [1978; The Sinking of the Titanic] and his political
views, evident in many literary publications, e.g., on the Third
World, as well as in his essays. His poem, »Landessprache,«
has already appeared in a different translation by Michael Hamburger
in Poems for People who Don't Read Poems by Atheneum, New
York 1968.
Landessprache (The Lingo) from »Landessprache«.
Gedichte : Vol. 3, No. 2
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