Wagner, Richard

Wagner, Richard – Banat Author, Co-Founder of the Aktionsgruppe Banat

Wagner, Richard, born 10 Apr 1952 in Lowrin, lived in Temeswar; Diploma in German Literature, journalist, lyric poet, author of prose.

Son of Nikolaus Wagner und Margarete, geb. Dreier.  Wagner attended high school in Großsanktnikolaus.  Already at this time Richard Wagner began publishing reports in the German-language press in Romania. He studied Germanistik at the University of Timisoara (Temeswarer Universität); and several years of German in Hunedoara. 

Below image : 12 Jun 1982 Temeswarer Press Club, Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn. 
Pictured left to right: Horst Samson, Eduard Schneider, Helmuth Frauendorfer, Anghel Dumbraveanu, Franz Liebhard, Nikolaus Berwanger, Bettina Gros, William Totok and Richard Wagner.

Wagner, Richard, born 10 Apr 1952 in Lowrin, lived in Temeswar; Diploma in German Literature, journalist, lyric poet, author of prose.

Son of Nikolaus Wagner und Margarete, geb. Dreier.  Wagner attended high school in Großsanktnikolaus.  Already at this time Richard Wagner began publishing reports in the German-language press in Romania. He studied Germanistik at the University of Timisoara (Temeswarer Universität); and several years of German in Hunedoara.

From 1979, Richard Wagner lived in Timisoara; where he remained until the end of 1983 for the Banatberichter für die Kronstädter Wochenschrift “Karpatenrundschau (“Observations of the Carpathians”). Co-founder of the literary circle who later became known as “action group Banat”. 1981/82 Richard Wagner led the Timisoara’s literary circle “Adam-Müller Guttenbrunn. Increasing awareness, involvement of the Romanian secret services were the reason that Wagner and several other authors left the circle. The editors of the Karpatenrundschau (Carpathian Rundschau) put the uncomfortable near the termination of employees. In the autumn of 1985 Richard Wagner presented and his then-wife Herta Müller ‘outbound request. In 1987, she arrived in Germany and settled in West Berlin down.

Richard Wagner has published numerous books in Romania and Germany – poems, short stories, novels, documentaries, for which he won several awards. In his work he takes a critical view of the political and social reality.

Co-author of:

Wortmeldungen Lyrikanthologie (lyric anthology), 1972

Vorläufige Protokolle, Lyrikanthologie (lyric anthology), 1976

Nachrichten aus Rumänien, 1976

Im Brennpunkt stehn, Anthologie, 1979

Author of:

Karltext (Plain language), poems, 1973;

Die invasion der uhren, (the invasion of the clocks) (Poems) 1977

“Die Muren von Wien“, (“The debris flow of Vienna”) Luchterhand Literaturverlag

Der Himmel von New York im Museum Amsterdam (“The sky of New York at the Museum Amsterdam.”) Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt.

Schwarze Kreide, Gedichte, (“Black chalk” – poems, literature ) Luchterhand Literaturverlag

Sonderweg Rumänien, (“Romanian exceptionalism”) Rotbuch Verlag

Völker ohne Signale, (“Peoples without signals”) Rotbuch Verlag

Wagner, Richard, born 10 Apr 1952 in Lowrin, lived in Temeswar; Diplomgermanist, Journalist, Lyriker, Prosaautor; Mitglied des Schrifstellervanbandes der SRR, Preis des ZK der VKJ 1973.  Verfasser von: Klartext, Gedichte, 1973; die invasion der uhren, Gedichte, 1977; Mitverfasser von: Wortmeldungen, Lyrikanthologie, 1972; Vorläugife Protokolle, Lyrikantholgie, 1976; Nachrichten aus Rumänien, 1976; im brennpunkt stehn, Anthologie, 1979.

Published at DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr

Last updated: 07/27/2025