Gert Westphal
Curt Gerhard Westphal, stage name
Gert Westphal, (5 October 1920 – 10 November 2002) was a German-Swiss actor, audiobook narrator, recitator and director, one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as "König der Vorleser" (king of reciters) and "der Caruso der Vorleser" (the
Caruso of reciters). After his reading of
her husband's works,
Katia Mann called him "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice). The literary critic
Marcel Reich-Ranicki said he was probably the best reciter of German.
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