# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-reich-ranicki
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:38:24.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-reich-ranicki"
name: "Marcel Reich-Ranicki"
slug: "marcel-reich-ranicki"
description: "Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst in Germany. His TV appearances made Reich-Ranicki a household name even among non-readers; in 2010, a survey found that 98% of Germans had heard of him."
tagline: "Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boerne-preis-2007-ffm006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1920-06-02"
deathDate: "2013-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.reich-ranicki.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump