Marcel reich ranicki biography of george michael
The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki Marcel R ; Returns.
Reich-Ranicki's life took him from middle-class childhood to wartime misery to the heights of intellectual celebrity..
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German:[maʁˈsɛlˌʁaɪçʁaˈnɪtskiː]; 2 June 1920 – 18 September 2013) was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47.[1] He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst ("Pope of Literature") in Germany.[2]
Life
Early life
Marcel Reich was born on 2 June 1920 in Włocławek, Poland,[3] to David Reich, a Polish Jewish merchant, and his wife, Helene (née Auerbach) Reich, who came from a German Jewish family (his cousin is the painter Frank Auerbach)[4].
Reich and his family moved to Berlin in 1929.[3] He attended a German school there, but was later sent to Berlin to study.[5]
Reich dedicated himself to the reading of German classics and practicing the theatre.
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