The German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929) is one of the most outstanding writers in German literature. He is a poet and an essayist, he has written theatre and radio plays and radio montages, worked as a critic, translator, and a publisher, and this fall he visited the International Author's Stage at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. In a remarkable essay from 1968 he declared that any literature, which cannot serve as political teaching, is dead literature. Enzenberger thinks, like Brecht, that poetry is a social tool, which must be handled with awareness and distance.

Provenance: The Danish poet and translator Ivan Malinowski (1926–1989).