Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1920, Włocławek, Poland — 2013, Frankfurt, Germany
Poland · Germany
Marcel Reich-Ranicki is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
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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Literary & drama critic
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