NEW YORK — Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who fled Poland to become a powerful cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television ...

A memoir, “The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki published by Princeton University Press in 2001, recounts the unlikely story of how a Polish Jewish escapee from the Warsaw Ghetto ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki was Germany's most influential postwar literary critic and a survivor of the Holocaust. The author of almost 50 books. including works on Mann, Goethe, Grass and Brecht, he was ...

Born: June 2, 1920; Died: September 18, 2013. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who has died aged 93, was an influential literary critic for more than 50 years. The composer Jean Sibelius once said "Whoever put ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who grew up in Poland and Nazi Germany, survived the Warsaw ghetto and went on to become postwar Germany’s best-known literary critic, has died. He was 93. Reich-Ranicki died ...

This story narrates the quintessential life of a Central European Jewish intellectual tossed by the storms of the twentieth century -- often pursued by survivor guilt but driven by an overwhelming ...

In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport him to ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany's most influential postwar literary critic, has died aged 93. Reich-Ranicki, frequently referred to as the Literaturpapst, or "pope of literature", had been diagnosed ...

THEY called him Literaturpapst, the “literature-pope”. For all his dislike of lazy metaphors, he did not contest that one. Marcel Reich-Ranicki revelled in fame—and in controversy. In the cautious, ...

In a country uneasy in its own identity, Reich-Ranicki’s folksy, bluntly-expressed opinions, grounded in an encyclopedic grasp of European literature, were capable of making or breaking the ...