- Hellmuth Karasek
Hellmuth Karasek (born
January 4 ,1934 ) is a German journalist, literary critic, novelist and the author of many books on literature and film.Karasek was born in
Brno . In 1944, when he was ten, his family escaped fromBielsko (todayPoland ) toBernburg . After finishing his schooling in the early 1950s he moved from there—then part ofEast Germany —toWest Germany and became a student at theUniversity of Tübingen .After his graduation Karasek started working as a journalist, and in 1968 became the theatre critic of "
Die Zeit ". From 1974 until 1996 he worked for "Der Spiegel ".In recent years Karasek has frequently appeared on German
television , both inquiz show s and, together withMarcel Reich-Ranicki , as one of the permanent members of "Das Literarische Quartett ".elect bibliography
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Carl Sternheim " (1965)
*"Max Frisch " (1966)
*"Deutschland, deine Dichter" (1970)
*"Brecht, der jüngste Fall eines Klassikers" (1978)
*"Billy Wilder " (1992)
*"Mein Kino" (a personal list of the 100 best movies ever) (1994)
*"Go West!" (about the 1950s) (1996)
*"Hand in Handy" (about themobile phone craze) (1997)
*"Das Magazin" (novel, 1998)
*"Betrug" (novel, 2001)
*"Karambolagen. Begegnungen mit Zeitgenossen" (2002)
*"Auf der Flucht" (memoir , 2004)External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438964/ Hellmuth Karasek on IMDB]
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