Hellmuth Karasek: The columnists – Tagesspiegel

30/09/2015 22:25 clock From Rüdiger Schaper <- inteaserpicposition: 1 -> <- self.position:! 1 -> <- classid: hcf center -> <- position: center -> <- inisprint: false -> <- inhaspic: true ->

Hellmuth Karasek was ahead of its time – he was for the Popular, for new media. He showed: It goes together, the Light and the serious.

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The “Literary Quartet “is reissued, and Hellmuth Karasek makes off, forever. Also a comment! Denis Scheck, the literary critic, this Pointe could not resist when he paid tribute to the radio the great, who died on Tuesday night colleague, who stressed his surname sharply on the second syllable: Karásek. Marcel Reich-Ranicki gave in the books talk show on ZDF the Lion King, Hellmuth Karasek played the tabloid Buffo, the fool, whose wisdom was the joke.
Now they are all dead, Karasek, Reich-Ranicki, Fritz J. Raddatz. Dreaded critic instances. They have not only books and authors criticized but even written books. Many a Bestseller was among them, but Karasek also knew what to make critic with critics that occur as a writer. His plays were running under the pseudonym Daniel Doppler. The novel about the “mirror” of course, he published under his own name. Karasek wrote books on jokes about getting older, his childhood on the run after the Second World War and a biography of Billy Wilder. Journalism is not literature, but the two can meet, on a good day
just ahead of the joke and the punch line is crucial for criticism:. Language. Without language arts there is no beginning and no end. Let us think of Billy Wilder comedy “Some Like It Hot” with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, which is dedicated to the unsurpassable Happy-end sentence was “Nobody’s perfect.” Language for as Karasek, who is not a journalist teacher or Wortschatzhygieniker aufführte, a finely harmonious, convertible and even vulgar organ. He liked it hot

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And while now when a generation cedes, times can debate about the end of an era, about the decline of major criticism and perhaps the disappearance of literature as a social influence power again, you have to realize: Karasek was ahead of its time. The entertainer fits in this world that does not differ much more between great art and entertainment. The critics of the old school has quite worked leveling. Also because of him that feature today is how it is. Karasek was for Popular, for new media. Early on, he made a booklet about how the mobile phone changed us.
always by hand and in a café he wrote his glosses for this newspaper. Legibly, exactly on the line. One type, which has the computer in the head, the Wikipedia knowledge, as well as the counting of characters and words. A text to read is worth, has words. It goes together, the Light and the serious, Karasek and Kafka, Internet and cultural institution.
Philip Roth, is a writer for the old taste. The big ego, sex. Today the world is talking about Jonathan Franzen and Dave Eggers, who describe digital Being and Becoming. Talking about books experienced highs as lows, but it never stopped. The public debate literature, which already starts in the “Don Quixote” by Cervantes, the future tense is simply, for people with no time. The French literature professor Pierre Bayard has written for the Guide: “How to Talk about books you have not read.” Must read

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