Book Presentation: Mein Leben (My life) by Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Thu 22 May 2014, 6 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
Presentation of the autobiography by the German-Jewish intellectual and critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki.
This event is in the framework of 4th European Literature Days, part of the Europe Days in Vietnam 2014.
The book will be presented by Le Quang and Kieu Van in Vietnamese with summarizing translation into German. The book is available at a discount price after the presentation.
Marcel Reich-Ranicki has lived a colorful and picaresque life. Born in 1920 of Polish Jewish parents, he spent his youth in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. In 1938 he was deported with his family back to Poland, where he spent the war. In its subtlety, intelligence and clear-headedness, his account of the Warsaw Ghetto, the relations between Poles and Jews, Poles and Germans, Poles and Poles is one of the most compelling and dramatic ever recorded. After the war, Reich-Ranicki returned to Poland and joined the communist party, for which he performed secret intelligence work.
He then spent two years in London at the Polish embassy, during which time he fell out with the communist party. Then, in 1958, he decided to return to the German city of his youth. Once back in Germany, Reich-Ranicki’s rise was meteoric: First as a book reviewer and then on to national celebrity, as the Culture Czar’ on the influential German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has been described as ‘the Pope’ of German letters. As well as being a remarkable life, this book is also a love letter to literature.
Free entrance.
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