Richard Wagner
Born(1952-04-10)10 April 1952
Lovrin, Romania
Died14 March 2023(2023-03-14) (aged 70)
Berlin, Germany
OccupationNovelist
NationalityGerman, Romanian
Period20th–21st century

Richard Wagner (10 April 1952 – 14 March 2023) was a Romanian-born German novelist. He published a number of short stories, novels and essays.

Life and work

Wagner was a member of one of Romania's German minorities, called Banat Swabians, like his wife, Herta Müller[1] He studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. He was in 1972 a co-founder and member of the Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary activist society.[1]

In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania. They separated in 1989.[1]

Wagner had Parkinson's disease for many years. He died in a Berlin nursery home on 14 March 2023, at age 70.[1]

Publications

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b c d Dotzauer, Gregor (14 March 2023). "Zum Tod des Schriftstellers Richard Wagner". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 14 March 2023.

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