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German intellectual and author Hans Magnus Enzensberger has died at the age of 93, the Suhrkamp publishing house announced in Berlin on Friday on the basis of information from Enzensberger’s family. The author died in Munich on Thursday. Enzensberger, who was born on November 11, 1929, in Kaufbeuren in Bavaria, is ranked alongside Günter Grass, Martin Walser and Heinrich Böll among postwar literary giants in Germany. He was involved in the “Gruppe 47” writers’ meetings and in the extra-parliamentary opposition (APO) of the 1968 movement in Germany that saw widespread disruption at universities…