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Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Who

Marcel Reich-Ranicki · Arts & Literature

What

Literary & drama critic

When

1920, Włocławek, Poland — 2013, Frankfurt, Germany

Where

Poland · Germany

Biography

Marcel Reich-Ranicki is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic

How & why

Marcel Reich-Ranicki was Germany's most influential literary critic, nicknamed the 'pope of literature', whose television programme 'Das Literarische Quartett' shaped public taste for decades and whose memoir 'The Author of Himself' became a bestseller. A Polish-born Jew, he survived the Warsaw Ghetto — where he worked as a translator and lost most of his family to the Holocaust — before emigrating and building his career in West Germany. His verdicts could make or break a book.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics

Contributions & Sources

Literary & drama critic

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics