Richard Wagner (novelist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Wagner (novelist)

German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1952

Place of Birth: Lovrin, Timiș County, Romania

Profession: writer, teacher, poet, Germanist, novelist, essayist, short story writer, opinion journalist, anglicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Richard Wagner (born April 10, 1952) is a Romanian-born German novelist.
He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays. A member of Romania's German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timi?oara University.
He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German.
He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society. In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceau?escu's Romania.
He still lives in Berlin.