Renata Adler

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Renata Adler (born October 19, 1938 in Milan ) is an American journalist and writer.

Life

Renata Adler's parents were in 1933 before the Nazis fled Germany to Italy and could emigrate to the United States 1939th

Adler studied philosophy and literature at Harvard with Roman Jakobson , at the Sorbonne with Claude Lévi-Strauss and law at Yale Law School . She then worked as a reporter for The New Yorker magazine . She wrote articles and film reviews for the New York Times on an irregular basis. In 1980 she polemicized against her fellow critic Pauline Kael at the New Yorker , who then fired her, in 1999 she replied to her former employer with a martial arts script.

In the 1970s, Adler turned to fictional materials. In 1976 her successful, feminist- influenced debut novel was published under the title Rennboot . For this she received the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award . She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1987 .

Works (selection)

  • A Year in the Dark: Journal of a Film Critic . New York: Random House, 1969.
  • Toward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism . New York: Random House, 1970.
  • Speedboat . New York: Random House, 1976
    • Racing boat . From the American English by Marianne Frisch. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1979
  • Pitch dark . New York: Knopf, 1983.
    • Pitch black . From d. American. by Helga Huisgen. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1987, new edition 2015
  • Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al .; Sharon v. Time . New York: Knopf, 1986.
  • Politics and Media: Essays . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
  • Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
  • Private capacity. Public Affairs , 2000.
  • Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
  • Irreparable Harm: The US Supreme Court and the Decision that Made George W. Bush President . Hoboken, NJ: Melville House Pub., 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adler , at The Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  2. ^ Frank Schäfer : Calculated cheekiness against the intelligentsia , in: TAZ , May 24, 2014, p. 27
Chief film critic for the New York Times


Chief Film Critics

Mordaunt Hall (1924–1934) • Andre Sennwald (1935–1936) • Frank S. Nugent (1936– 1940) • Bosley Crowther (1940–1967) • Renata Adler (1968–1969) • Vincent Canby (1969–1993) • Janet Maslin (1993–1999) • Elvis Mitchell (2000–2004) • AO Scott & Manohla Dargis (since 2004)

personal data
SURNAME Adler, Renata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan