Profile of Marcel Reich-Ranicki on Famous Like Me

Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June 1920, at Włocławek, Poland) is a famous German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47.

Life

Reich-Ranicki had lived in Berlin since 1929. He was deported to Poland in 1938 because of his Jewish descent. In November 1940 he found himself behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto. At the time of his stay in the ghetto he was working for the Judenrat as a chief translator. He also contributed to the collaborative newspaper Gazeta Zydowska (The Jewish Newspaper) as a music critic. In 1943 he managed to escape to the "Aryan side".

From 1948 to 1949 Reich-Ranicki was a Polish consul general in London. In 1958 he emigrated to Germany.

From 1960 to 1973 he was literary critic for the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit. From 1973 to 1988 he was head of the literature staff at the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. From 1988 to 2002, Reich-Ranicki hosted the literary talk show Literarisches Quartett on the German state television broadcaster ZDF. Through the show he became a household name in Germany.

In 1968 and 1969 he taught at American universities. From 1971 to 1975 he held a visiting professorship at Stockholm and Uppsala. Since 1974 he has been a honorary professor at the University of Tübingen. In 1990 he received the Heine visiting professorship at the University of Düsseldorf, and in 1991 he received the Heinrich-Hertz visiting professorship of the University of Karlsruhe.

Works

• Mein Leben (autobiography), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3423130563
• Lauter Verrisse, dtv, 1993, ISBN 3423115785

Related topics

• German literature

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