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Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German: [maʁˈsɛl ˌʁaɪçʁaˈnɪtskiː]; 2 June 1920 – 18 September 2013) was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47.
- Goethe Prize (2002)
Sep 19, 2013 · Helen Chambers. Wed 18 Sep 2013 20.18 EDT. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who has died aged 93, operated at the heart of European culture for more than half a century. The most influential literary...
Sep 18, 2013 · Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who left Poland to become a powerful cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television talk...
Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Marcel Reich, later Reich- Ranicki was born on the 2 June 1920 in Wloclawek on the Vistula, the third child of the Polish Jew, David Reich and his German Jewish wife, Helene, nee Auerbach. David Reich established a small factory shortly after the First World War for building materials.
Sep 27, 2013 · Caustic critic of authorial foibles and a culture of celebration. Polish-born German writer and literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki at the opening of the photo exhibition 'My Life in...
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May 2, 2024 · Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born June 2, 1920, Włocławek, Poland—died September 18, 2013, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) was a Polish-born German columnist and television personality who became Germany’s most influential literary critic. Reich grew up in Berlin and Warsaw.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the “pope of German letters.” His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure tale, an unusual account of German-Jewish relations, a personal rumination on who’s who in German culture, and a love letter to literature.
