Richard Wagner (novelist)
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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 The Banat Swabians are an Germans, ethnic German population in the former Kingdom of Hungary in Central Europe, Central-Southeast Europe, part of the Danube Swabians and Germans of Romania. They emigrated in the 18th century to what was then the ...
, like his wife,
Herta Müller Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Si ...
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. In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for
West Berlin West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1 ...
, to escape
communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...
oppression and censorship in
Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( ; ;  – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last Communism, communist leader of Socialist Romania, Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 u ...
's Romania. They separated in 1989. Wagner had Parkinson's disease for many years. He died in a Berlin nursing home on 14 March 2023, at age 70.


Publications

* ''Klartext. Ein Gedichtbuch'' (1973) * ''die invasion der uhren. Gedichte'' (1977) * ''Der Anfang einer Geschichte. Prosa'' (1980) * ''Hotel California I. Der Tag, der mit einer Wunde begann. Gedichte'' (1980) * ''Anna und die Uhren. Ein Lesebuch für kleine Leute mit Bildern von Cornelia König'' (1981, 1987) * ''Gegenlicht. Gedichte'' (1983) * ''Das Auge des Feuilletons. Geschichten und Notizen.'' (1984) * ''Rostregen. Gedichte''. Luchterhand (1986) * ''Ausreiseantrag'' (1988) * ''Begrüßungsgeld'' (1989) * ''Die Muren von Wien. Roman.'' (1990) * ''Der Sturz des Tyrannen. Rumänien und das Ende der Diktatur.'' edited with Helmuth Frauendorfer (1990) * ''Sonderweg Rumänien. Bericht aus einem Entwicklungsland.'' (1991) * ''Schwarze Kreide. Gedichte.'' (1991) * ''Völker ohne Signale. Zum Epochenbruch in Osteuropa. Essay'' (1992) * ''Der Himmel von New York im Museum von Amsterdam. Geschichten.'' (199) * ''Heiße Maroni. Gedichte.'' (1993) * ''Giancarlos Koffer'' (1993) * ''Mythendämmerung''. Einwürfe eines Mitteleuropäers. (1993) * ''Der Mann, der Erdrutsche sammelte''. Geschichten. (1994) * ''In der Hand der Frauen'', novel (1995, DVA) * ''Lisas geheimes Buch'', novel (1996) * ''Im Grunde sind wir alle Sieger. Roman.'' (1998) * ''Mit Madonna in der Stadt. Gedichte.'' (2000) * ''Miss Bukarest'', novel (2001, Aufbau) * ''Ich hatte ein bisschen Kraft drüber, Materialsammlung zu Birgit Vanderbeke von Richard Wagner'' (2001, S. Fischer TB) * ''Der leere Himmel, Reise in das Innere des Balkan'', essay (2003, Aufbau) * ''Habseligkeiten'', novel (2004, Aufbau) * ''Der deutsche Horizont. Vom Schicksal eines guten Landes'', essay (2006, Aufbau) * ''Das reiche Mädchen'', novel (2007, Aufbau) * ''Es reicht. Gegen den Ausverkauf unserer Werte'', essay (2008, Aufbau) * ''Linienflug. Gedichte.'' edited by Ernest Wichner (2010, Hochroth) * ''Belüge mich'', novel (2011, Aufbau) * ''Die deutsche Seele'', with Thea Dorn. (2011, Knaus) * ''Und meine Seele spannte weit ihre Flügel aus. Hundert deutsche Gedichte''. edited, postscript by Richard Wagner (Aufbau, 2013) * ''Habsburg. Bibliothek einer verlorenen Welt'' (2014, Hoffmann und Campe)


Honours

* 1987 Spezial prize of the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis * 1988 Förderpreis of the Andreas-Gryphius-Preis * 1989 , with Gerhardt Csejka, Helmuth Frauendorfer, , Johann Lippet,
Herta Müller Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Si ...
, Werner Söllner and * 1990/91 Scholarship of the Villa Massimo * 2000 Literature prize of * 2008 Georg Dehio Book Prize * 2011 Donauschwäbischer Kulturpreis of
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, for his life's work * 2014 Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland


References


Further reading

*Andrea Mork, ''Richard Wagner als politischer Schriftsteller: Weltanschauung und Wirkungsgeschichte'', Campus, 1990, ,


External links

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40 Jahre Aktionsgruppe Banat
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