He was the companion of Marcel Reich-Ranicki – and was since his death as an unofficial literature Pope: The journalist and literary critic Hellmuth Karasek died at the age of 81 years in Hamburg.
Hellmuth Karasek is dead. The literary critic and writer, died on Tuesday at the age of 81 years. This was confirmed by his family in Hamburg.
Karasek was probably one of the most famous German journalist and critic of the present. Not least because of its long-standing collaboration in the “Literary Quartet” – a literary program of the ZDF, which aired until 2,001th For twelve years, Karasek had next to Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013) coined the shipment and was so famous a broad public.
Over more than 20 years he headed the news magazine “Der Spiegel” the culture department. His experience he worked in the novel “Das Magazin”. As a culture-chief Karasek was also responsible for that cover, at the Marcel Reich-Ranicki Günther Grass’s novel “A wide range” tore.
His career in journalism had the literary critic started in the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”, then was he at the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” in Hamburg.
“Television has changed my life most”
By 2004, he was co-editor of the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” theater critic. In addition to numerous books (“Sweet Bird of Youth”, “Is this a joke”) wrote Karasek for newspapers such as “The World” and the “Hamburger Abendblatt” -. Which also published his commentaries regularly
He loved the audience. Even after the “Quartet” (1988-2001) was discontinued after 77 episodes and 375 discussed books, the bustling cultural critic appeared repeatedly on the screen, which he sometimes brought criticism.
“I can not find in such dishonorable television appearances,” was his comment. “The television has most changed my life,” Karasek said once. Since then, people knew his face, even if they sometimes mistook him for Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, as he reported.
Born was Karasek 1934 as one of five children in the Moravian town of Brno. End of the Second World War, the family fled from the Red Army to Bernburg / Saale in Saxony-Anhalt.
childhood in the Third Reich coined Karasek
After graduation Karasek moved in 1952 from the former East Germany to West Germany and studied in Tübingen German, History and English. “I have lived in two dictatorships. The first I liked and only later realized that that was a pig regime. The second I hated from the beginning.” had his childhood in the Third Reich coined the most
him, he told. “Because of the war we have learned that not one stone standing on the other, has nothing in hand and you will always be suspicious.” The cut and drill, which had been transmitted to him as a boy in the Hitler Youth and in a Nazi elite school, had worked less sustainable with him.
daughter Laura also already wrote a novel
His artistic genes were Karasek, a father of four and married to his second marriage to the cultural editor ARMGARD Seegers, to his children continued: son Daniel from her first marriage is artistic director at the theater in Kiel, daughter Laura has published her first novel (“Playful years”).
“They wanted to take an artistic profession, but I said to her. Learn something decent – and as they studied law” When she had presented him the first 100 pages of her novel, however, he was convinced: “That you have to go absolutely!”
unofficially appointed as the new literature Pope
Well into old age he went on a reading tour and went on writing. Only 2013 were again two books (“while traveling. As I look at Germany had exquisite”, “women are just men”) published by him.
rose after the death of Marcel Reich-Ranicki in September 2013 Karasek for many media unofficially as the new Pope of the country on literature.
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