Talk:Hans Magnus Enzensberger

I just removed the following paragraph

Enzensberger made a visit to Bard College in March, 2005. During his visit he attended a German history class and discussed with students his brief participation in World War Two. At the age of 16 (late 1945), while living in Berlin, a Nazi officer gave him and many other young boys Nazi uniforms as well as weapons. Enzenberger and other young men were ordered to protect Berlin from the invading Russian and Allied Armies. Luckily, before Allies arrived Enzenberger removed his uniform and fled.

which was added (before some additional changes) by Nwabudake, basically because I fail to see how it is notable. This may be due to my own ignorance.

In its current form, the paragraph seems to be an anecdote, and not even a particular interesting one, and doesn't have much to do with Enzensberger. (At least, the level of granularity of that single paragraph is much to high compared to the rest of this very concise entry.) I may be mistaken about notability (for example, Enzensberger may have used the incident in a book, or he is the only visitor to Bard College for a decade, or he has always denied to have worn a Nazi uniform, or whatnot), in which case the paragraph could be improved by explaining the significance of that visit or anecdote.

Furthermore, I am all for expanding the Enzensberger entry (I tried to get the ball rolling by translating the German Wikipedia entry hither), and that could easily include a section on his adolescence. If the paragraph was an attempt to start such a biographical section, then please put it back in and continue the good work! Arbor 07:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Would it be ok to begin developing a section on his critical essays? Enzensberger has an interesting set of essays that are marginally important to Marxist media studies. Perhaps it would helpful to include a brief section on his critical works? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TuxedoMarx (talk • contribs) 02:20, 14 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

In 2010, Enzensberger was invited to serve as a mentor for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange. Out of a very gifted field of candidates, Enzenberger chose young, African-American poet, Tracy K. Smith as his protégée.^[1] RMP2014 (talk) 14:06, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Do we know that he was called Hans Magnus, vs. Hans, or Magnus? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:52, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

He was always called Hans Magnus E. on the radio, in the press. I don't know, if friends and family called him, say, Hansi. I also don't know what an intellectual founding of a state should look like. Around 1968, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, as publisher of the then great Kursbuch, had some strange ideas about democracy in the GFR and even more strange intellectual friendships: with G. Maschke, a political exile on Cuba, but also with a then well known journalist: Joachim Schickel, a Maoist- intelli nut- job of the highest order. HME was a fierce Anti-american at the time. But he published the great Cuban poet and enemy-of-the-Castro-state Heberto Padilla at Edition Suhrkamp. Also, it is said, that he had been very good on the post WW2 black market - and later in dealings with his publishers, so if someone had said to him how come your not rich, but sooo smart, he could have laughed all the way to the bank.--Ralfdetlef (talk) 08:34, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Friends called him Mang. Grimes2 (talk) 08:47, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

(ec) I was talking about the sentence using "Hans Magnus" when he had to enter the Hitlerjugend, - not about later mentioning on radio. We could just say "Enzensberger" if we have no ref. - Thanks for the other bits, and with a good reference, each could go to the article, which is still short on the person (vs. activities and positions). I'll add at least Henze and more from the FAZ, but there's RL, pleasant on a weekend but in the way of expanding. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

I think Hans Magnus is OK. Magnus was his second first name and should also be mentioned. In context of his youth it is common to use first names. Offical abbr.: HME. Grimes2 (talk) 08:56, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

HME had three younger brothers, it seems, the mentioned very marxist academic and writer ("Größerer Versuch über den Schmutz") Christian E. and also Ulrich E., a kind of hippie and co-founder of Kommune I, later Maoist, and another not well known one.--Ralfdetlef (talk) 08:43, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

He was friends with Ingeborg Bachmann. His anthology of modern(ist) poetry (translated and in the original languages!) very important translations of W. C. W. (Bibliothek Suhrkamp) also important, even if his introductory essay strangely uninformed: crap. The German online articles about him are good: 68' Maoist J. Schimmang in the taz; FAZ; Zeit; even the nd; etc.--Ralfdetlef (talk) 09:48, 26 November 2022 (UTC)Reply