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Louisiana Story
Wiederentdeckt: eine wilde Geschichte des jungen Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Zum 90. Geburtstag spektakulär illustriert.
Grinsende Alligatoren, schweißglänzende Jazzkeller, dazwischen ein junger deutscher Intellektueller. So könnte Louisiana ausgesehen haben, als es der achtundzwanzigjährige Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1957 bereiste. Er verfasste eine Story, die Jahrzehnte vergessen war und nun, zu seinem 90. Geburtstag, von Hannes Binder pechschwarz illustriert wurde: Der Erzähler ist Anwalt. Einer auszuhändigenden Lebensversicherung wegen schlägt er sich durch das Rotlicht der Stadt New Orleans und durch die Mangrovensümpfe vor ihr. Eine Geschichte voll sorgsam recherchierter Details, schwelgend in Plüsch und Verfall. Und ebenso im Spiel mit einem Erzählen, wie man es von diesem Jungautor nie erwartet hätte.
Grinsende Alligatoren, schweißglänzende Jazzkeller, dazwischen ein junger deutscher Intellektueller. So könnte Louisiana ausgesehen haben, als es der achtundzwanzigjährige Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1957 bereiste. Er verfasste eine Story, die Jahrzehnte vergessen war und nun, zu seinem 90. Geburtstag, von Hannes Binder pechschwarz illustriert wurde: Der Erzähler ist Anwalt. Einer auszuhändigenden Lebensversicherung wegen schlägt er sich durch das Rotlicht der Stadt New Orleans und durch die Mangrovensümpfe vor ihr. Eine Geschichte voll sorgsam recherchierter Details, schwelgend in Plüsch und Verfall. Und ebenso im Spiel mit einem Erzählen, wie man es von diesem Jungautor nie erwartet hätte.
80 pages, Hardcover
First published October 21, 2019
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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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