Education
A member of Romania"s German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University.
essayist journalist novelist writer poet
A member of Romania"s German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University.
He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceaușescu"s Romania.
He still lives in Berlin.
1987 Spezial prize of the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis.
Aktionsgruppe Banat. Literaturkreis Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn]
He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society.