Marcel reich ranicki max frisch biography

Marcel Reich-Ranicki was the most famous and influential literary critic in the Federal Republic. The following presentation tells his life story by way of selected works from his personal collection of author-portraits and caricatures, which he donated to the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt in These are complemented by citations from his autobiography, Mein Leben, which topped the German bestseller-lists for months.

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His maternal grandfather was a rabbi, although his mother broke with Judaism and also brought up her son Marcel in an areligious way. Here, as early as his school days, Marcel developed his passion for German literature. When I was twelve years old she gave me on some occasion a rather unusual gift: a ticket for a performance of 'Wilhelm Tell' Schiller is also related to my first accomplishment in German class.

One of my classmates was giving a talk on 'Wilhelm Tell', but he was finished after barely five minutes. The teacher, having expected something more substantial, asked if someone could add something about the play. I put my hand up and got started: 'Tell' glorifies political assassination and an individual act of terror. I must have used a fair number of words to expound this and the like, because I was still talking when the break time bell rang about forty minutes later.