by Marcel Reich-Ranicki · Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt · tapa dura · ISBN 9783421051493
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«Mein Leben» is the autobiography of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, published by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in hardcover (565 pages, in German).
Born into a Polish Jewish family, Reich-Ranicki recounts his childhood in Wloclawek, his adolescence in Berlin and his deportation to Poland in 1938. He recalls the horror of the Warsaw Ghetto, his time as a communist in postwar Poland and his return to Germany in 1958, where he became one of the country's most influential literary critics. The book combines a review of a life marked by persecution with testimony to twentieth-century German culture, including encounters with writers such as Brecht, Böll, Grass and Canetti.
The work was originally published in 1999. In addition to his career in the press, Reich-Ranicki achieved great popularity with the television show «Das Literarische Quartett».
Aimed at readers interested in memoirs, twentieth-century history and German literary criticism.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst in Germany. His TV appearances made Reich-Ranicki a household name even among non-readers; in 2010, a survey found that 98% of Germans had heard of him.
