“As a poet, essayist, biographer, editor and translator, he was one of the most influential and world-renowned German intellectuals”summarized the editorial while announcing the author’s death.
The German Government considered it after receiving news of Enzensberger’s death. “He was a great writer and intellectual and will be lost in Germany,” said Christiane Hoffmann, deputy executive spokesperson.
Enzensberger was born on 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren and was awarded e.Hugo Jacobi in 1956, Criticism in 1962, Georg Büchner in 1963, Etna Taormina in 1967, Pasolini in 1982 and Heinrich Boll in 1985.
This author of several dozen works,“Politics and crime” (1968), “Questioning Havana: self-portrait of the counter-revolution” (1971); ‘Details’, (1969); ‘Poems for those who don’t read poetry’, (1971); ‘Short Essay of Anarchy’, (1975); ‘Political Scraps’, (1984); “Misanthrope”, (1985) and “Europe. Europe”, (1989).
In 1998 he published ‘El corto verano de la anarquía’, a fictional biography of the Spaniard Buenaventura Durruti, and produced a new translation of Federico García Lorca’s ‘La casa de Bernarda Alba’.
Enzensberger He was in the German army between 1944-45. Erlangem worked as a translator and bartender until he began studying German, literature and philosophy at the universities of Breisgau, Freiburg, Hamburg and the Sorbonne in Paris. He received his doctorate in 1955 with a thesis on the poetic theory of the romantic writer Clemens Brentano.
1955 to 1957 Worked as editor at Stuttgar radio stationTy later began his literary career with the poem “The Wolf’s Defense”. From 1965 to 1975 he was a member of “Group 47” and was editor of the literary magazine Kursbuch. Between 1980-1982 he was the editor of the monthly Transatlantic magazine.
in February 1989 He was one of 22 West German journalists who questioned the Bonn government. Economic pressure measures against Iran so that this country withdraws the death threats against Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses”.
in May 2002 Awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in Communication and Humanities.