
See also: Cyrillic: Ханс Магнус Енценсбергер Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator and editor. He had also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books. He was one of the leading authors in the Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour Le Mérite, among many others. He wrote in a sarcastic, ironic tone in many of his poems. For example, the poem "Middle Class Blues" consists of various typicalities of middle class life, with the phrase "we can't complain" repeated several times, and concludes with "what are we waiting for?". Many of his poems also feature themes of civil unrest over economic- and class-based issues. Though primarily a poet and essayist, he also ventured into theatre, film, opera, radio drama, reportage and translation. He wrote novels and several books for children (including The Number Devil, an exploration of mathematics) and was co-author of a book for German as a foreign language, (Die Suche). He often wrote his poems and letters in lower case. Enzensberger also invented and collaborated in the construction of a machine which automatically composes poems (Landsberger Poesieautomat). This was used during the 2006 Football World Cup to commentate on games. Tumult, written in 2014, is an autobiographical reflection of his 1960s as a left-wing sympathizer in the Soviet Union and Cuba. Enzensberger translated Adam Zagajewski, Lars Gustafsson, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden and César Vallejo. His own work has been translated into more than 40 languages.
Books

Josefine und ich
Eine Erzahlung
2006

Panopticon
2012

El perdedor radical
Ensayo sobre los hombres del terror
2006

Europe, Europe
Forays into a Continent
1987

A History of Clouds
99 Meditations
2003

Reflexiones del señor Z o migajas que dejaba caer, recogidas por sus oyentes
2013

Anarchy's Brief Summer
The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
1972

New Selected Poems
2015

Zig Zag
The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa
1997

Leichter als Luft
1999

Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems
1962

The consciousness industry
On literature, politics and the media
1974

Esterhazy
1993

Intelligentsuse eksiaias. Idioodijuht
2007

Sanftes Monster Brüssel oder Die Entmündigung Europas
2011

Where Were You, Robert?
1998

Civil Wars
From L.A. to Bosnia
1993

Racconti matematici
2006

The Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure
1997

The Sinking of the Titanic
A Poem
1978

Selected Poems
1966

The Silences of Hammerstein
2008

Kiosk
1995

La gran migración
1992