Richard Wagner (novelist)

Richard Wagner ( born April 10, 1952 in Lovrin, Banat, Romania ) is a German writer.

Life

After studying German and Rumänistik in Timisoara Wagner worked as a German teacher and journalist. He also published poetry and prose in German language. He was a member of the Writers' Circle of Friends Action Group Banat, which also Gerhard Ortinau, Rolf Bossert, William Totok, Johann Lippet, Albert Ernest Bohnund Wichner included, among others, and the Herta Müller and Horst Samson were close. He joined in 1972 the Romanian Communist Party.

After the destruction of the group by the Romanian Securitate in the fall of 1975, there have been repeated to limit its publication opportunities. Wagner lost his job as a journalist in 1983. After the co-founder of Adam Müller- Guttenbrunn literature circle Nikolaus Berwanger did not return from a trip abroad to Germany to Romania in the fall of 1984, Richard Wagner and his then wife Herta Müller decided to submit proposals for the final departure. Both were 1987 move to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Since then, Wagner works as an author and freelance journalist in Berlin. He published short stories, novels, essays and reviews. Wagner is a member of the journalistic network The Axis of Good.

Wagner in the Romanian-German Discussion

2009 Wagner accused the country team in the Banat Swabians that ex- spy of the former Romanian secret police Securitate were active in their ranks.

By 2010, the suspicions against some romania German authors such as Oscar Pastior, Claus Stephani Wagner and compacted to have former friends Werner Söllner and Peter Grosz collaborated with the Securitate. In his publications, Wagner sees as " reconnaissance of Securitate entanglements ". He called for " merciless elucidation of the Securitate involvement Pastior ," he a "master of duplicity " designated elsewhere, where he also questioned the durability of the Oscar - Pastior Foundation in question. He considered Pastior work as " a dazzling display of artistry language ", but the " any moral justification " lacks. The District Court of Munich and the Munich Higher Regional Court prohibited Wagner 2011, the " suspected reporting of significant public interest," Claus Stephani had a " reliable informant " in force and had been " even rewarded for his secret activities ."

Works

  • Plain text. A book of poems (1973 )
  • The invasion of watches. Poems (1977 )
  • The beginning of a story. Prose (1980 )
  • Hotel California I. The day, which began with a wound. Poems (1980 )
  • Anna and the watches. A reading book for little people with pictures of Cornelia King (1981, 1987)
  • Backlight. Poems (1983 )
  • The eye of the arts section. Stories and notes. (1984)
  • Stainless rain. Poems. Luchterhand (1986 )
  • Exit visa (1988 )
  • Welcome Money (1989 )
  • The debris flows of Vienna. Roman ( 1990)
  • The overthrow of the tyrant. Romania and the end of the dictatorship. Edited by Helmuth Fraundorfer (1990 )
  • Exceptionalism Romania. Report from a developing country (1991 )
  • Black chalk. Poems (1991 )
  • Peoples without signals. For a Paradigm Shift in Eastern Europe. Essay (1992 )
  • The sky of New York at the Museum of Amsterdam. Stories (1992 )
  • Hot chestnuts. Poems (1993 )
  • Giancarlo's case ( 1993)
  • Myths dusk. Objections a Central European (1993 )
  • The man who collected landslides. Stories (1994 )
  • In the hands of women, Roman (1995, DVA), ISBN 3-421-05008-2
  • Lisa's secret book. Roman ( 1996)
  • With Madonna in the city. Poems (2000)
  • Miss Bucharest, Roman (2001, construction), ISBN 3-351-02926-8
  • I had a bit of power over it, collection of materials to Birgit Vanderbeke by Richard Wagner (2001, S. Fischer TB), ISBN 3-596-14937-1
  • The empty sky, journey into the interior of the Balkans, essay (2003, construction), ISBN 3-351-02548-3
  • Belongings, Roman (2004, construction), ISBN 3-351-03027-4
  • The German horizon. From the fate of a good land, essay (2006, construction), ISBN 3-351-02628-5
  • The rich girl, Roman (2007, construction) ISBN 3-351-03226-9
  • It is enough. Against the sale of our values ​​, essay (2008, construction) ISBN 3-351-02673-0
  • Scheduled flight, poems (2010, crimson Verlag), ed Ernest Wichner, ISBN 978-3-942161-03-9
  • Lie to me, Roman. (2011, Aufbau Verlag ), ISBN 978-3-351-033361
  • The German soul ( with Thea Dorn ). Knaus. Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-8135-0451-4

In his work " The German horizon ", " enough is enough " and " The German soul " (with Thea Dorn ) commented Wagner for "selling out German values."

Awards

In Romania

  • Adam -Müller Guttenbrunn Literature Prize
  • Price of pioneer Union of Communist Children's Fund
  • Price of the Communist Youth League
  • Price of the Romanian Writers' Union

In Germany

Aktionsgruppe Banat Oskar Pastior Leonce-und-Lena-Preis Andreas Gryphius Prize Perlentaucher Integrated Authority File
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