Literary critic Hellmuth Karasek died – THE WORLD

Hamburg – mourning for Hellmuth Karasek: The literary critic and writer is dead, he died on Tuesday at the age of 81 years, as his family. confirmed in Hamburg. For twelve years, Karasek had next to Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013), the ZDF broadcast “The literary quartet” coined and was so famous a broad public. Over two decades he had taken from the theater and the cinema in Germany at the news magazine “Der Spiegel” impact on the image of the literature as well.

Karasek started his journalistic career in 1960 at the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” as editor and became a little later to the features editor. After several interruptions, he joined in 1968 as a theater critic and features editor for weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” (until 1974). Then began his “mirror” -time: 1974-1991 he headed the cultural department, in 1996 it came to a provisional break with the magazine. After four-year break Karasek wrote again in 2000 a cover story for the magazine -. About film diva Marlene Dietrich

His debut novel Karasek 1998, with “The magazine» – about the inner workings of a scheming Hamburg news magazine, giving him many resented. Until 2004, he was co-editor of the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”. 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

In addition, he worked as a dramaturge, Moderator, biographer about the filmmaker Billy Wilder or under the pseudonym Daniel Doppler as satirical playwright (“The Quail”). “Television has my life changed the most,” he said of his time at the “Literary Quartet” once. Since then, people knew his face, even if they sometimes mistook him for Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, as he reported. This Friday (October 2), ZDF will launch a new edition of the program.

Karasek himself went into old age on a reading tour and went on writing. Only 2013 were again two books (“while traveling. How do I Germany had erlesen me”, “women are just men”) published by him.

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