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27 January 2009(2009-01-27) (aged 77) Munich, Germany
Occupation
Professor of English Literature
Nationality
German
Notable works
Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt; translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Alice through the Looking-Glass
Christian Enzensberger (24 December 1931 – 27 January 2009) was a German Professor of English studies, author and a translator of English literature into German.
Life
Born in Nuremberg, Enzensberger was one of the more enigmatic figures in German letters. Younger brother of the literary celebrity and political figure Hans Magnus Enzensberger, he maintained a relatively low media profile throughout his career, in spite of being embroiled in one of the more interesting literary scandals of early 70s Germany.[citation needed]
In 1970, Enzensberger became the only author ever to refuse the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen, offered in the wake of the publication of Größerer Versuch über den Schmutz (translated by Sandra Morris and published by Calder & Boyars in 1972 as Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt). The book generated a furore when it was first published in Germany, not least due to its linking of personal cleanliness with totalitarianism. Smut is an experimental work in which dirt is described scientifically, personally and perversely by a panoply of narrative voices, including fragments from the anthropologist Mary Douglas alongside writers from Samuel Beckett through William S. Burroughs to Jean Genet. It has since then fallen into neglect and remains out of print in both English and German.
Größerer Versuch über den Schmutz. 1968 (Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt. 1972, translated by Sandra Morris) published in the U.S. by Continuum Books in 1974.[1]
Viktorianische Lyrik. Tennyson und Swinburne in der Geschichte der Entfremdung. Hanser Verlag, München 1969
Literatur und Interesse – Eine politische Ästhetik mit zwei Beispielen aus der englischen Literatur. Band 1: Theorie. Band 2: Beispiele, Shakespeare ‚Der Kaufmann von Venedig’, Dickens ‚Oliver Twist’. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977 (Zweite, fortgeschriebene Fassung 1981, ISBN3-518-27902-5)
Brief an Herbert Marcuse. Akzente. Issue 1, Volume 25. February 1978
Edith Sitwell: Gedichte. Englisch und deutsch. Übersetzt von Christian Enzensberger, Erich Fried und Werner Vordtriede, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1964
Ogden Nash: I’m a Stranger Here Myself. Selected Poems – Ich bin leider hier auch fremd. Ausgewählte Gedichte. Nachdichtungen von Christian Enzensberger, Walter Mehring und Ulrich Sonnemann, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1969
Edward Bond: Trauer zu früh. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969
Edward Bond: Lear. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972
T. S. Eliot: Gesammelte Gedichte 1909–1962. Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Aus dem Englischen von Christian Enzensberger u. a., Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, TB 2002 ISBN3-518-38067-2
Edward Bond: Bingo. Szenen von Geld und Tod. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975
Review of Größerer Versuch über den Schmutz by Wolfgang Hildesheimer published in Der Spiegel, issue 1, 1969 page 96 under the headline Sauber ist nicht Schön
References
^Enzensberger, Christian (1974). Smut; an anatomy of dirt. New York: Seabury Press. ISBN0-8164-9183-6. OCLC704932.
