Mourning Hellmuth Karasek. The literary critic died at the age of 81 years on Tuesday in Hamburg , This was confirmed by his family.
In addition to the 2013 deceased Marcel Reich-Ranicki Karasek coined over the years ZDF broadcast “The Literary Quartet” and has been known to millions of viewers. Lange certain Karasek as culture editor of the news magazine “Der Spiegel” the image of literature, the theater and the cinema in Germany with. German President Joachim Gauck praised Karasek as a passionate fighter and determined advocate of German literature.
“Hellmuth Karasek has in many people the knowledge and love of literature, the theater and the film significantly expanded and deepened”, Gauck wrote to the widow ARMGARD Seegers. “Without him, the literary life in our country would be much poorer -. And also considerably more boring” Culture Minister Monika Grütters (CDU) praised Karasek as “a real institution in Germany”. “He loved and suffered and with the literature and was always their sovereign mediator and a brilliant conversationalist.”
Education Minister Johanna Wanka (CDU) declared, Karasek had people brought home as an ardent advocate of the culture of reading the book , “He will be missed.” SPD chief Sigmar Gabriel called Karasek an influential figure of the spiritual life. . Germany losing one of its most brilliant voices
Karasek, who came from Brno (Brno) in Moravia, also wrote himself numerous books, including novels (“fraud”), biographies (“Billy Wilder – a close-up”) or his autobiographical memories “The Fugitive”. Under the pseudonym Daniel Doppler Karasek also wrote several plays, including “The Quail”.
The author lived in Hamburg. He was married in second marriage with the journalist ARMGARD Seegers and had four children. His son Daniel Karasek passes as artistic director, the Kiel Theatre. His daughter Laura Karasek-Briggs is a lawyer and a writer.
1988 launched on ZDF “The Literary Quartet”, which ran intermittently until 2001. Karasek showed more subtle humor and nuances, while Reich-Ranicki gladly ruled also blustering hard about books.
Karasek began his journalistic career in 1960 at the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”. After several interruptions, he joined in 1968 as a theater critic and features editor for the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” (until 1974). Then his “Mirror” began -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 book – about Marlene Dietrich
His debut novel was Karasek 1998 “Das Magazin” -. About the intriguing inner workings of a Hamburg news magazine, which many resented him. Until 2004, he was co-editor of the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”. In addition to his numerous books Karasek wrote for newspapers such as “The World” and the “Hamburger Abendblatt” -. Which also published his commentaries regularly
“Television has my life changed the most,” Karasek said of his time the “Literary Quartet” again.
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.
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