(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 25 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, famous German writer, died yesterday in Munich at the age of 93.
Several German media report it, including the SueddeutscheZeitung, which learned it from the Suhrkamp publishing house.
Author of novels, essays, dramas, Erzensberger was one of the major German writers and intellectuals of the post-war period, and his name is compared in Germany to those of Guenter Grass, Martin Walser and Heinrich Boell.
He was a member of the "Gruppo 47" literary club and of the extra-parliamentary opposition Apo.
He founded the cultural magazine "Kursbuch", published in the decade 1965-1975.
He has lived in various countries of the world, including Italy.
But in his biography there are many stages, with periods spent in Cuba, Norway, Mexico in the USA and West Berlin.
In 1979 he moved to Munich.
Among the numerous titles of his multifaceted and extensive publications we can mention: "You always talk about money!", "What boredom is poetry", "The radical loser", "The wizard of numbers", "The end of the Titanic".
"With Hans Magnus Erzensberger we lose a great German writer and intellectual, who will be missed by Germany," said spokesman Olaf Scholz at a press conference in Berlin.
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