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, ...

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 ...

For decades, in print and on TV, Polish-Jewish literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki told Germans what to read. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany – Germany is mourning the death ...

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, 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 ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the doyen of German literary criticism for half a century, has died aged 93. He presided over the literary pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily for 15 years, where he ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who left Poland to become a powerful cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television talk show host ...

This is the first part of a two-part tribute to the late Polish-born, German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who died September 18, 2013. “Thinkers are valued in this country especially when ...

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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 ...

This is the second part of a two-part tribute to the Polish-born, German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who died September 18. Part 1 was posted October 31. Reich-Ranicki included an essay in ...

Survivor of Warsaw Ghetto became revered figure in his country of adoption – Germany Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s best-known literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on Wednesday ...