Marcel Reich-Ranicki’s personal ‘readers’ of works by great authors Marcel Reich-Ranicki has compiled some special readers for us. After My Heine und My Lessing we now have My Büchner and My Kleist. The volumes comprise works by prose and verse writers which are important to Reich-Ranicki personally – works which he particularly loves, which have influenced and left their mark on him. He explains his choice in a foreword to each volume. ‘‘Heinrich von Kleist was a fighter, a soldier, a man who quite often and in his own way even rebelled against the Prussian spirit, as any good Prussian should.’
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
About the author:
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, born in 1920, was permanent literature critic of Die Zeit from 1960 to 1973, and from then until 1988 literary editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where he still works as a critic and edits the Frankfurter Anthologie. From 1971 to 1975 he was guest professor in Stockholm and Uppsala and since 1974 he has been an honorary professor at Tübingen University. He has received numerous academic and literary prizes and honours including honorary doctorates from the universities of Berlin, Munich, Utrecht and Uppsala, as well as the Thomas Mann Prize and the Goethe Prize among others. Among his most important works are his books Die Anwälte der Literatur (The Lawyers of Literature, 1994), his autobiography Mein Leben (My Life, 1999) and Vom Tag gefordert. Reden in deutschen Angelegenheiten (As the Day demands. Talks on German Affairs, 2000). His five-part literary canon came out between 2002 and 2006. |
