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== UB ==
It should at least once be mentioned that MRR served as an officer in the notorious Stalinist secret police Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (UB, Office of Security)from 1944-1950. -- [[User:87.160.234.245|87.160.234.245]] 18:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
:{{citation needed}} [[User:Wegesrand|Wegesrand]] ([[User talk:Wegesrand|talk]]) 13:17, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

== Pronunciation ==

RR's name is pronounced as if it were written  (in German) Ranitzki.  Some-one should put in the accepted phonetic transcription that Wiki uses. 03:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

As it now stands, I can't read it (the IPA rendition) at all:  the special letters or what-ever show up as squares. [[User:Kdammers|Kdammers]] 05:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

== Jewishness ==

I'm not in a position to see a compy of his autobiography, but according to a comment on the Polish page:  "Ich bin ein halber Pole, ein halber Deutscher und ein ganzer Jude." (Mein Leben, 1999, S. 11)" Xx236 14:57, 4 maja 2006 (CEST)

('I'm a half Pole, a half German and a complete Jew.")
[[User:Kdammers|Kdammers]] 01:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

On the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2010 he mentioned in an interview on German TV that he had not entered a synagogue for the past 70 years, after being questioned about his Jewishness. [[User:Ontologix|Ontologix]] ([[User talk:Ontologix|talk]]) 09:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

: Here's a very rich source on MRR and Jewishness, covering the full complexity of the question: an [https://www.zeit.de/1989/38/ich-bin-kein-deutscher-und-ich-werde-es-nie-sein/komplettansicht interview with MRR by Herlinde Koelbl], ''Die Zeit'', 15 September 1989. [[User:Wegesrand|Wegesrand]] ([[User talk:Wegesrand|talk]]) 13:14, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
: That interview contains this passage: "Don’t make a German of me. I am a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany. Naturally, and I am happy to be one. I like this country, in spite of everything. I write in the German language, I am a critic of German literature, I belong to German literature and culture, but I am not a German and will never be one." (My translation.) [[User:Wegesrand|Wegesrand]]([[User talk:Wegesrand|talk]]) 11:33, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

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[[User:BetacommandBot|BetacommandBot]] ([[User talk:BetacommandBot|talk]]) 04:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

== Missing topics ==

Ideas for more content:
*MRR's autobiography, a bestseller in Germany.
*His large-scale edition projects "Frankfurter Anthologie" and "Der Kanon"
--[[User:AndreasPraefcke|AndreasPraefcke]] ([[User talk:AndreasPraefcke|talk]]) 10:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

:: Good idea[[User:Adniim-|Adniim-]] ([[User talk:Adniim-|talk]]) 03:25, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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== "Pseudonym" Ranicki ==

In his autobiography ''Mein Leben'' (in English: Marcel Reich-Ranicki, ''The Author of Himself: The Life Marcel Reich-Ranicki'', trans. Ewald Osers, Princeton UP 2020), MRR explains that he was advised to change his name on taking the diplomatic mission to London because, in the early post-war years, it would have been socially difficult in London to have the German name "Reich". The article's language about "Ranicki" being a "code name" and "operated as" makes it sound like the name had to do with secrecy or espionage. By MRR's account, that is not the case. Maybe someone would like to amend this? [[User:Wegesrand|Wegesrand]] ([[User talk:Wegesrand|talk]]) 13:00, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

== "Clarified" "Gruppe 47" ==

I took out the tag { { clarify|date=June 2018 } } after changing "the literary group Gruppe 47" to "the informal literary association Gruppe 47". The name is linked to a page which I assume has sufficient clarification for anyone. [[Special:Contributions/176.74.57.43|176.74.57.43]] ([[User talk:176.74.57.43|talk]]) 11:26, 14 April 2022 (UTC)