Hellmuth Karasek
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| Born | 4 January 1934 Brno, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Died | 29 September 2015 (aged 81) Hamburg, Germany |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Years active | 1965–2015 |
Hellmuth Karasek (4 January 1934 – 29 September 2015) was a German journalist, literary critic, novelist and the author of many books on literature and film. He was one of Germany's best-known feuilletonists.
Karasek was born in the capital city of Moravia, Brno (German: Brünn), which was then a part of Czechoslovakia (nowadays of the Czech Republic). Karasek attended the National Political Institutes of Education in Loben. In 1944, when he was ten, his family fled from Bielitz (today Bielsko in Poland) in the neighbouring German region of Silesia to Bernburg in Saxony-Anhalt. After finishing his schooling in the early 1950s he moved from there—then part of East Germany—to West Germany and became a student at the University of Tübingen, where he studied History, German and English language and literature.
After his graduation Karasek started working as a journalist, and in 1968 became the theatre critic of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ("The Time"). From 1974 until 1996 he wrote for the popular news magazine Der Spiegel, where he worked as the chief editor of the feuilleton. After his retirement from The Spiegel he wrote a novel named Das Magazin in which he critisiced Der Spiegel. He also worked in later years for newspapers like Die Welt, Bild, Berliner Morgenpost and Der Tagesspiegel. He also wrote more than 20 books which dealt about his own life or literature and film, autobiographies about people like Max Frisch, Bertolt Brecht and his close friend Billy Wilder. In 1999, he was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
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