Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensbergeris a German author, poet, translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1929
CountryGermany
glasses doe culture
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something
greatness mediocrity needed
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
reality moon cameras
The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.
writing thinking looks
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!