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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born in Kaufbeuren, Germany on November 11, 1929.
He was educated at the Universities of Erlangen,
Freiburg, Hamburg, and Paris. His main literary work is in poetry and
essay, supplemented by excursions into theater, film, opera, radio
drama, reportage, and translation, with one or two novels and several
books for children thrown in.
Enzensberger's books include Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, Zig-Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa, and the mathematical adventure The Number Devil.
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Bibliography
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The Number Devil, 2005
Where Were You, Robert?, 2000
Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, 2000
Selected Poems, 1999
Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa, 1997
Civil War, 1994
Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia, 1994
Selected Poems, 1994
Mediocrity and Delusion: Collected Diversions, 1992
Political Crumbs, 1990
The Sinking of the Titanic: A Poem, 1989
Europe, Europe: Forays Into a Continent, 1989
Dreamers of the Absolute: Essays On: Politics, Crime and Culture, 1988
Critical Essays, 1982
The Sinking of the Titanic: A Poem, 1980
Raids and Reconstructions: Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture, 1976
Mausoleum: Thirty-Seven Ballads from the History of Progress, 1976
The Havana Inquiry, 1974
The Consciousness Industry; On Literature, Politics and the Media, 1974
Politics and Crime, 1974
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When I looked up from my blank page / there was an angel in the room. // A rather commonplace angel, / presumably of lower rank. // You cannot imagine, he said, / the degree to which you’re dispensable. 
