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)
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