Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren), is a German author, poet, translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich. He is part of the last generation of intellectuals whose writing was shaped by first-hand experience of the Third Reich.[2] The Enzensberger family moved to Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of National Socialism, in 1931.[1] Julius Streicher, the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer, was their next-door neighbour. Hans Magnus joined the Hitler Youth in his teens, but was expelled soon afterwards. "I