Richard Wagner | |
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Born | Lovrin, Romania | 10 April 1952
Died | 14 March 2023 Berlin, Germany | (aged 70)
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | German, Romanian |
Period | 20th–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.
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]