ha ha

Dear readers,

for those of you who do not understand geman I will explain real quick what happens here.
Marcel Reich Ranicki - a polish Holocaust surviver who has been living in Germany for over 50 years is supposed to get the German Television Award but rejects it.
Reich Ranicki is one of the sharpest literature, media and politics critic in Germany. He is also a well known writer himself and he used to have a show on tv where he is dicussing books and more together with 3 other critics.
He is probably not the easiest person to get along with and his critiques are sometimes so sharp and on point that he maybe hurts people but I think it is about time that someone speaks up about the loss of quality in television.
I don´t own a tv anymore - I threw it out a few years ago. It made me angry and frustrated and ashamed and that is exactly what Reich Ranicki sais in his speech in front of all the german tv idiots.

(I can highly recommend his autobiography. I read it many years ago but his life story coming from the ghetto in Warsaw until becomming the most famous german literature critic is truely touching and really interesting.)