author, critic, journalist and moderator: Hellmuth Karasek (4 January 1934 to 29 September 2015)
Whenever Hellmuth Karasek emerged, he seemed of immense vitality always already in the middle in an anecdote, he was a born talker who could oscillate between gossip and esprit like no other. “In dubio Prosecco!” Was his battle cry, and the turmoil it went accordingly to perk up.
A few weeks ago he-reviewed in a commercial with his typical mixture of gusto and self-irony the new Ikea catalog – a tribute to his longtime friend and fellow Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who once for advertising purposes discussed the phonebook
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In the spring of his joke story appeared, “but I find that not funny!” – the last volume in an impressively long series of book publications of collections of his newspaper “Tagesspiegel” -Kolumnen (“cannon”, 2002) to gloss band ” Women are just men “(2013) ranged from his literary debut, the journalistic roman à clef” Magazine “(1998), up to the so moving as moving Memorial Ribbon” The Fugitive “(2004) and the defiant age bestseller” Sweet Bird of Youth “(2006).
Certainly, he was looking forward to the new edition of the “Literary Quartet”, which starts on Friday at ZDF. But now Hellmuth Karasek died on Tuesday in Hamburg. He was 81 years old.
about
Started More had born as one of five children in the Moravian Brno son of a master carpenter his long and efficacious critics Careers as a man of the theater, who published monographs on “dramatists of world theater” as Carl Sternheim and Max Frisch in the sixties. 1968 joined the young literary editor of the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” to “Time”, for which he wrote theater reviews especially. The Boulevard comedy “The Quail” that a certain Daniel Doppler helped to popularity in 1985, just went on Karasek creative account how the pieces “Hitchcock, a comedy” and “Homeland Security: Five political acts”
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In the meantime changed as head of the culture department to “mirror”, tore the list of his published books not from, including a discussion of Bertolt Brecht as a playwright (“The recent case of a theater classic”, 1978), a biography of the director Billy Wilder or autobiographical colored portrait of the fifties (“Go West!”, 1996). In 1997 the Culture Energizers was co-editor of the “Tagesspiegel” and established himself as a columnist who served up amusing anecdotes from the culture of life. In the past decade, he wrote especially for the “world” and the “Welt am Sonntag”. But early on, and quite independently of its respective employers was Hellmuth Karasek one of the most famous and popular culture journalist of the country.
© Picture-Alliance Karasek in July 1991 along with his colleagues from the “Literary Quartet” Sigrid Löffler and Marcel Reich-Ranicki.
Karasek in July 1991 along with his colleagues from the ” Literary Quartet “Sigrid Löffler and Marcel Reich-Ranicki.
The quick change of themes and topoi among Hellmuth Karasek disposition, who always followed his convictions in each of his roles, that the art of storytelling is “a cat with maximum effect out of the bag to”. So it also experienced viewers of the “Literary Quartet”, the country introduced him in 1988 as a sparring partner of Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Here Karasek knew how admirably to navigate between the sometimes rigid opinion Poland by Sigrid Löffler and Reich-Ranicki to appease tempers when it walked too high, and in his cheerful good nature, his sagacity and his Broken scratch awareness something like the voice of the audience also facing to be of high culture committed as the entertainment.
© dpa December 2014 visit Karasek and his wife ARMGARD a charity gala in Berlin.
December 2014 visit Karasek and his wife ARMGARD a charity gala in Berlin.
He had firmly resolved not to annoy below its level, Hellmuth Karasek liked to say. Judging by his Gutaufgelegtheit, the level was very high.
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