One of the most important publicists is dead. Hans Magnus Enzensberger died at the age of 93.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born on November 11, 1929 in Kaufbeuren in the Allgäu.
After attending school in Nuremberg and graduating from high school in Nördlingen, he brought his family through the post-war years as an interpreter and barman with the Royal Air Force.
Alongside Günter Grass, Martin Walser, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson, he was one of the most influential authors in German post-war literature.
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The publicist and author Hans Magnus Enzensberger died at the age of 93
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After participating in the legendary literature club "Gruppe 47", he founded the culture magazine "Course Book" in 1965.
Enzensberger tried many things: He was a publisher's editor at Suhrkamp in Frankfurt, spent some time in socialist Cuba, lived in Norway, Italy, Mexico, the USA and West Berlin and finally came to Munich in 1979.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: His most important books
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger "Fallen Fruit"
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger describes his observations, notes, short essays, memoirs, dialogues, poems and glosses as »fall fruit that was collected in various large and small baskets«.
With a pointed tongue, frankly and argumentatively, he confronts us with zeitgeist and mainstream.
But there is also no shortage of appreciation: from familiar and loved ones, from brothers and sisters in spirit.
The German language, whose profundity and abysses the author gets to the bottom of with lexical fine-tuning, learns its rights.
And last but not least, nature in its wondrous and capricious manifestations.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger "Fallen Fruit"
2022 Suhrkamp, ISBN-13 978-3-518-47190-6
Price: Hardcover 30 €, paperback 15 €, 367 pages
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Enzensberger wrote novels, essays, anecdotes and memoirs as well as dramas, such as "Sinking of the Titanic", staged by George Tabori in 1980, as well as children's and youth books: "Always the money: A small economic novel" or "Poetry is annoying".
In 2019 he got involved on the subject of migration with the book "Fallobst".
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Books for young people
"Always the money!"
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger "Always the money!"
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Every time Aunt Fé comes to visit, the perfectly normal everyday life of the Federmann family gets out of joint.
The ancient, lively lady is a sly old lady.
After a long life of inflation, inheritance and bankruptcy, poverty, waste and exile, she is now rich and lives alone in her villa on Lake Geneva.
But what does Aunt Fé want from the Federmanns, her only relatives?
She definitely doesn't want to be bored.
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"Always the money!" is humorous and profound at the same time.
The extremely rich aunt Fé explains where the money really comes from.
It is an illustrated little novel about the big topic of money.
Recommended not only for young people.
It can easily be read in a relaxed manner in one evening.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger "Always the money!"
2015 Suhrkamp, ISBN-13 978-3-518-46729-9
Price: Paperback €12, 213 pages
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"Where have you been, Robert?"
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger "Where have you been, Robert?"
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It was an ordinary day when Robert disappeared and the strangest thing about his disappearance was that no one noticed, not even his mother.
Robert sits in front of the television.
What's the matter with his eyes?
He rubs himself and suddenly he finds himself in a film scene, in a strange time, in a strange place.
He is in 1956 in Soviet Novosibirsk.
The adventure can begin.
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A Bildungsroman that should fascinate both young and adult readers.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger "Where have you been, Robert?"
2014 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-62592-0
Price: Paperback €8.95
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger died on November 25, 2022 at the age of 93 in Munich.
This was announced by Suhrkamp Verlag, citing the family.
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