Talk:Marcel Reich-Ranicki

UB
It should at least once be mentioned that MRR served as an officer in the notorious Stalinist secret police Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (UB, Office of Security)from 1944-1950. -- 87.160.234.245 18:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Wegesrand (talk) 13:17, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Pronunciation
RR's name is pronounced as if it were written (in German) Ranitzki. Some-one should put in the accepted phonetic transcription that Wiki uses. 03:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

As it now stands, I can't read it (the IPA rendition) at all: the special letters or what-ever show up as squares. Kdammers 05:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Jewishness
I'm not in a position to see a compy of his autobiography, but according to a comment on the Polish page: "Ich bin ein halber Pole, ein halber Deutscher und ein ganzer Jude." (Mein Leben, 1999, S. 11)" Xx236 14:57, 4 maja 2006 (CEST)

('I'm a half Pole, a half German and a complete Jew.") Kdammers 01:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

On the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2010 he mentioned in an interview on German TV that he had not entered a synagogue for the past 70 years, after being questioned about his Jewishness. Ontologix (talk) 09:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Here's a very rich source on MRR and Jewishness, covering the full complexity of the question: an interview with MRR by Herlinde Koelbl, Die Zeit, 15 September 1989. Wegesrand (talk) 13:14, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 * That interview contains this passage: "Don’t make a German of me. I am a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany. Naturally, and I am happy to be one. I like this country, in spite of everything. I write in the German language, I am a critic of German literature, I belong to German literature and culture, but I am not a German and will never be one." (My translation.) Wegesrand(talk) 11:33, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Reich-Ranicki.jpg
Image:Reich-Ranicki.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 04:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Missing topics
Ideas for more content: --AndreasPraefcke (talk) 10:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * MRR's autobiography, a bestseller in Germany.
 * His large-scale edition projects "Frankfurter Anthologie" and "Der Kanon"


 * Good ideaAdniim- (talk) 03:25, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131006060845/http://www.france24.com/en/20130918-germanys-top-literary-critic-holocaust-survivor-dead to http://www.france24.com/en/20130918-germanys-top-literary-critic-holocaust-survivor-dead
 * Added archive https://archive.is/20130918234805/http://www.hr-online.de/website/specials/reichranicki90/index.jsp?rubrik=57257&key=standard_document_38975825 to http://www.hr-online.de/website/specials/reichranicki90/index.jsp?rubrik=57257&key=standard_document_38975825
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131009114322/http://www2.tau.ac.il/news/engnews.asp?month=2&year=2006 to http://www2.tau.ac.il/news/engnews.asp?month=2&year=2006

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 16:53, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

"Pseudonym" Ranicki
In his autobiography Mein Leben (in English: Marcel Reich-Ranicki, The Author of Himself: The Life Marcel Reich-Ranicki, trans. Ewald Osers, Princeton UP 2020), MRR explains that he was advised to change his name on taking the diplomatic mission to London because, in the early post-war years, it would have been socially difficult in London to have the German name "Reich". The article's language about "Ranicki" being a "code name" and "operated as" makes it sound like the name had to do with secrecy or espionage. By MRR's account, that is not the case. Maybe someone would like to amend this? Wegesrand (talk) 13:00, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

"Clarified" "Gruppe 47"
I took out the tag { { clarify|date=June 2018 } } after changing "the literary group Gruppe 47" to "the informal literary association Gruppe 47". The name is linked to a page which I assume has sufficient clarification for anyone. 176.74.57.43 (talk) 11:26, 14 April 2022 (UTC)