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Das Wasserzeichen der Poesie oder die Kunst und das Vergnügen, Gedichte zu lesen
Seit mittlerweile 15 Jahren besteht Hans Magnus Enzensbergers "Andere Bibliothek" innerhalb des Eichborn Verlags. Ein programmatisches Haupt- und Glanzstück ist die 1985 erschienene und viel gelobte Lyriksammlung Das Wasserzeichen der Poesie oder Die Kunst und das Vergnügen, Gedichte zu lesen. Selten hatte ein Gedichtband so enthusiastische Leser und so überschwängliche Kritiker. "Eine lyrische Surprise-Party", schrieb ein Kritiker der Süddeutschen Zeitung, und im Spiegel stand zu "Auf 490 Seiten wird, quer durch Epochen und Sprachen, eine Poetologie voll Witz und Boshaftigkeit Gedichte als Kunststücke, Spielsachen, Rätsel-Objekte, Scherzartikel, Lyrik als Klang- und Bildbeispiel, als typografische Fallenstellerei, als parodistisches Abenteuer".
- GenresPoetry
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
About the author
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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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.
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.
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November 29, 2020
Die Lektüre liegt lange zurück, daher kann ich nur sagen, dass ich die Anthologie gerne gelesen habe. Den vierten Punkt gibt es für die großartige Aufmachung. Das Buch ist in der "Anderen Bibliothek" erschienen, die von Sammlern und Buchliebhaber*innen für die besondere Aufmachung, feinste Bindung, hervorragende Papierqualität und Druckbild (noch mit Bleisatz gedruckt!) sehr geschätzt wird. Mal ganz davon abgesehen von er Auswahl der Literatur.
May 14, 2011
Amazing printed object. The cover of the original edition is a deeply debossed white (the text is printed onto a clear plastic dust jacket). Most of the poems and textual pages are letterpress prints. (Colored pages are offset printed and tipped into the book.) Poems of amazing diversity e.g. there are poems in Morse code and Semaphore. For book lovers, definitely collectible.
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