Hans Magnus Enzensberger was an outstanding lyrical poet, a superb essayist, and a prominent, controversial figure in the German post-war cultural scene. For Enzensberger, political engagement, cultural critique and literary aesthetics were inseparable. His lyrical and essayistic oeuvre resonates with the pressing concerns of Germany and the world at large after World War II: the armament race, democracy, capitalism versus socialism, rampant consumerism, the dialectics of historical processes, the mind-altering influence of the electronic media and, more recently, German pre- and post-unification everyday “normalcy” and Islamic terrorism. Enzensberger worked with and in a variety of media, including radio, periodicals, theater, opera and television, his adaptations often crossing…
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Citation: Knapp, Gerhard P.. "Hans Magnus Enzensberger". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 April 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12738, accessed 21 November 2024.]
