Marcel Reich-Ranicki
[3] Ranicki survived the Jewish deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he married his wife Teofila, whereas his parents were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.Reich was recalled from London in 1949, sacked from the intelligence service, and expelled from the Party on charges of "ideological estrangement", for which he was also jailed for a short time.[7] Here he began writing for leading West German periodicals, including Die Welt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[20][21] In 2002, the show was followed by a similar but short-lived programme, Reich-Ranicki Solo, which consisted of him talking about old and new books in front of a studio audience."[7] In 1993, the weekly Der Spiegel gave him a dossier of about fifteen pages, under the title "The Lord of Books", tracing his career, first to Die Zeit, then to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[23] Many writers, and readers too, disagreed with some traits of his complex personality, while universally recognizing his culture and passion for German literature.Mainly dealing with life and survival during the war, the book was adapted for television and broadcast starring Matthias Schweighöfer as Reich-Ranicki in April 2009.[7] In February 2006, he received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, which later that year established an endowed chair for German literature named after him.[7] The autobiography "The Author of Himself", published in 1999, begins with Reich-Ranicki reporting a conversation in 1958 with Günter Grass asking him: "Are you German, or Polish, or what?".[1][32] German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid tribute: "We lose in him a peerless friend of literature, but also of freedom and democracy.Following the publication of Too Far Afield by his fellow Gruppe 47 member Günter Grass, Reich-Ranicki appeared on the cover of the magazine Der Spiegel, tearing the novel apart.
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