Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in the 11th of November 1929 in Kaufbeuren, in the German Bavaria and he is the oldest of four boys. He is a German author, poet, translator and editor that witnessed the rise and fall of the Third Reich and went through the GDR reality during the Cold War. He grew up in a middle-class home in Nuremberg, where he moved with his family when he was very young. He attended high school from 1942 to 1945, but in 1945 he was inducted into the Volkssturm militia. He finished his Abitur in 1949 and kept going with his studies in literature, languages and philosophy in Erlangen, Freiburg, Hamburg and earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne, Paris with a thesis about Clemens Brentano’s poetry.
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As he mentions as well, we can be talented and hardworking, however without fortunate we can never succeed and he was lucky in the fact that was able to identify the problems of each parts of German society. Most importantly he says that Germany couldn’t keep as it was and it had to be re-stablished and this phenomenon can never be quite. Although, he now looks at his first poems in the early 1960s a bit embarrassed, he claims that with the claustrophobia, the will for a change and the anti-conformism, his simple and shrilled way of writing was what caught people’s attention, they saw on him the anger for a …show more content…
In this case Hans Magnus Enzensberger analyses the divided post-war Germany, in particular the west, where the economic recovery enabled consumerism to distract the population from an immediate past that many preferred not to dwell on. Enzensberger once again uses very strong and direct words to describe his own country. He describes it as a “murderers den / where in haste and impotence the calendar tears its own leaves, / where the past rots and reeks in the rubbish disposal unit / and the future grits its false teeth, / … all because things are looking up …”. This sense of things seems to have been both widespread and unpopular. Using Enzensberger’s words, “it was like living with an enormous corpse in the cupboard”, was to risk the disfavour of a state whose immediate predecessor had been in the habit of burning books and killing writers along with anyone else it cared to get hold
He was a founder member of …show more content…
As he mentions as well, we can be talented and hardworking, however without fortunate we can never succeed and he was lucky in the fact that was able to identify the problems of each parts of German society. Most importantly he says that Germany couldn’t keep as it was and it had to be re-stablished and this phenomenon can never be quite. Although, he now looks at his first poems in the early 1960s a bit embarrassed, he claims that with the claustrophobia, the will for a change and the anti-conformism, his simple and shrilled way of writing was what caught people’s attention, they saw on him the anger for a …show more content…
In this case Hans Magnus Enzensberger analyses the divided post-war Germany, in particular the west, where the economic recovery enabled consumerism to distract the population from an immediate past that many preferred not to dwell on. Enzensberger once again uses very strong and direct words to describe his own country. He describes it as a “murderers den / where in haste and impotence the calendar tears its own leaves, / where the past rots and reeks in the rubbish disposal unit / and the future grits its false teeth, / … all because things are looking up …”. This sense of things seems to have been both widespread and unpopular. Using Enzensberger’s words, “it was like living with an enormous corpse in the cupboard”, was to risk the disfavour of a state whose immediate predecessor had been in the habit of burning books and killing writers along with anyone else it cared to get hold