Hans Werner Richter
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Hans Werner Richter (November 12, 1908 - March 23, 1993) was a German writer.
Born in Bansin, Usedom, Richter is little known for his own works but found world-wide celebrity and acknowledgment as initiator, moving spirit and "grey eminence" of the Group 47, the most important literary association of the German Federal Republic of the post-war period.
Richter died in Munich.
[edit] Works
- Die Geschlagenen (novel, 1949)
- Sie fielen aus Gottes Hand (novel, 1951)
- Spuren im Sand (novel, 1953)
- Linus Fleck oder Der Verlust der Würde (1959)
- Karl Marx in Samarkand (1966)
- "Blinder Alarm" (story, 1970)
- Briefe an einen jungen Sozialisten (autobiography, 1974)
- "Die Flucht nach Abanon" (story, 1980)