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- My parents and myself in Warsaw, 1957.
Photo taken by the celebrated photographer Benedykt Dorys.
Dorys was a master of retouching!
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- My father is
Marcel Reich-Ranicki,
the Pope of German Literature.
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Video of address to Bundestag on 27.1.2012 (Holocaust Memorial Day)
Text
Video
with English voiceover
Background story (FOCUS, 30.1.2012)
- English Wikipedia entry.
German Wikipedia entry.
He started by writing concert reviews in the Warsaw Ghetto (in Polish, under the pseudonym Wiktor Hart).
Background article (Welt, 3.5.2010)
Video clip of Yad Vashem film about the cultural life in the Ghetto,
including my father's testimony.
New York Times article (1984). New York Times article (2002).
Ich, Reich-Ranicki
Film shown on German TV ZDF, 13.10.2006
Snippet: mpg format, or mov format.
Some reviews: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Spiegel, Frankfurter Rundschau,
Welt,
RP Online,
Rheinischer Merkur.
Portrait of Marcel Reich-Ranicki segment of the
Karambolage show of
the French-German ARTE TV (25.5.2008)
He turned 90 on 2 June 2010, with much media coverage:
FAZ,
SPIEGEL,
BILD,
BILD2,
ARD,
ARD,
ZDF,
TV news item.
My father's rejection of
a life-time achievement award in October 2008 was according to
The Guardian an all-time highlight of German TV. The
Hollywood Reporter compared the scandal to Marlon Brando refusing the Oscar in 1972.
The prize has been donated to the Haus der Deutschen Geschichte. It was on
display at the (surprisingly large) 2010
exhibition Humour in German politics.
The "Pope of German literature" and his son
Article in BUNTE (1.6.2006).
Clive James is a fan.
A memorable hug and meeting
with Will Smith on the German TV show
Wetten Dass ... ? (2000)
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