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Fifteen when Hitler and the Third Reich collapsed, the German poet, translator and editor Hans Magnus Enzensberger became one of German's foremost intellectuals. After a doctorate in philosophy, he became part of a writer's circle dedicated to renewing German literature and founded a cultural magazine Kursbuch which became important for students making their voices heard in 1968. As a poet and author, he published in both English and German for adults and children, as a publisher he brought into print neglected classics and was influential in the careers of writers including Ryszard Kapuscinski and WG Sebald. His death, aged 93 has been announced. This is an interview he recorded with Anne McElvoy in 2015 when Bloodaxe Books were publishing his New Selected Poems