Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June, 1920, at Wloclawek, Vistula) is the best known German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47.

Life

Reich-Ranicki was born in 1929 in Berlin, Germany. He was deported to Poland in 1938 because of his Jewish descent. In 1943 he managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto. In 1960 to 1973 he was a literary critic of the Hamburg weekly paper Die Zeit, from 1973 to 1988 ... 1988 to 2002 he was editor-in-chief of the literature editorial staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine, was a literary talk show host Literarisches Quartett on the second German television with which he reached a high recognition, became the house hold name for every german family In 1968 and 1969 he taught at American universities, in 1971 to 1975 he held a guest's professorship in Stockholm and Uppsala, since 1974 he is a free professor at the university of Tübingen, in 1990 he receives the Heine-guest's professorship at the university of Düsseldorf, in 1991 the Heinrich hertz-guest's professorship of the university of Karlsruhe.

Works

Mein Leben