Hans Mayer
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Hans Mayer was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist.
Portrait of Mayer taken in St. Nicholas Church, 1993
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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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
Hans Mayer
…others, belongs to the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Perhaps there is some correlation to a former competitive situation, which Marcel Reich-Ranicki wrote about in an obituary, which shows Mayer's life in an unflattering light. Reich-Ranicki describes the story of Mayer's life as a tragic story, as…
Reich-Ranicki in 2007
Bust of Reich-Ranicki in Literaturhaus Frankfurt