Un puñado de anécdotas

Hans Magnus Enzensberger evokes his childhood, adolescence and early youth: the germ of his vital and intellectual trajectory. He does so by opting for the distancing of the third person and the form of the mosaic of scenes, accompanied by images of people and objects that surrounded him in those years, crucial for the construction of him as a person and dramatic in the history of Germany. The crash of 29 - the year he was born - and the turbulent times of the Weimar Republic appear; the father of a high post office official; the rise of Nazism; war and bombing seen by a child; the passage through the Hitler Youth and his expulsion from them; the evacuation of the city to the country; the discovery of the Holocaust through a documentary whose images will accompany him forever; the new postwar Germany; aspirations to become a philosopher; the Heidegger lecture he attended and the seminar of Professor Wilhelm Szilasi, recently returned from exile; the discovery of Paris and its bustling intellectual life ...