The controversial and eloquent columnist Fritz J. Raddatz died yesterday age of 83.
He was unjust and besserwisserisch, vain and resentful, he was immensely well-read, educated, passionate and a great stylist. Thus, Fritz J. Raddatz had a lot of properties that can be conducive to a critic, and his fame. And he was famous and feared and actually almost as influential as Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Yesterday’s Raddatz – FJR, as he was called awesome in capital letters – died at the age of 83 years
Many enemies ‘, much honor’.. But who cares for such an environment, which should not happen one: a serious mistake. And this was undermined Raddatz, at that time, many years and of course the legendary features editor of “Time” on October 12, 1985. In an editorial in to nimbly executed to the book fair he incorporated only Snatches quote by Goethe. Accordingly, the prince of poets had written to the then Frankfurt Book Fair that they had begun “to change the area behind the station.” The trouble was: from a station could be no question in his lifetime his Goethe. Raddatz had been eating a parody
But you laughed not only about the critics. Now you sharpened the knife. The opportunity seemed favorable, the fervently hated dandy and finally get rid of troublemakers. In short, Fritz J. Raddatz was fair game. And so he lost his post about this error in the “time” -Feuilleton, which he had given a new political painting. Later he will grumble about why just met him clenched anger over a supposedly venial error: because he was “gay, Jewish-fast, too much and too often parading superiority”? One answer is to not give; but we can guess at least that his suspicions should not have been too far removed from the designs of his enemies.
The good years of his life could be thought of as a large masked ball, where champagne and caviar to the basic food belonged. Also, it is in his grandiose diaries from the years 1982 to 2001, 2002 to 2012 often obscene speech. FJR gave eloquent yard, it cost the envy of others about his “Pörschlein” from which later a Jaguar wich used due his love of Sylt.
Although everything belonged only to the surface of his intellectual life, not life is themselves who, however, was essential as a decorative accessory. Behind it was hard work hidden: his studies in Berlin, his habilitation with Hans Mayer, the editing work on “people and the world” in East Berlin, especially his nine years at the Rowohlt publishing house, for he discovered spruce, high Huth, Kempowski and Jelinek. Fritz J. Raddatz suffered the feuilleton and in culture and yet could not they do not exist: without Marion Dönhoff that “Inge Meysel of journalism” without Rudolf Augstein, the “nouveau riche Nobody” and the “now completely gray then Reich-Ranicki”.
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Yet many attacks seemed merely sham fights and sometimes the pastime in a well shaded life. Of this he wrote in his diaries as well as in his story “cow’s eye” – as the father of the little Fritz pushes for sex with his stepmother. A Missbrauchstat, has “determined and destroys life” to be.
With age, he felt himself to be “out of date”. This included for Raddatz also that they began to call him an icon and even legend. Whether he’s still been happy? “My life was not happy wedding colors and happy..”
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