Creator Bio
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
1920–2013
Polish-born literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki moved to Berlin in 1929, and in 1938 was deported to Poland. He survived the Warsaw ghetto and then joined the postwar Communist Party of Poland. In 1948 and 1949 he worked for Polish intelligence in London, where he took on the code name Ranicki, serving also as Polish general consul. In 1958 Reich-Ranicki left Poland and worked as a literary critic in West Germany. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in 2002.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Author of Himself
The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…