Education
A member of Romania"s German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University.
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Richard Wagner
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Career
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.
Achievements
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1987 Spezial prize of the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis 1988 Förderpreis of the Andreas-Gryphius-Preis 1989 Deutscher Sprachpreis, with Gerhardt Csejka, Helmuth Frauendorfer, Klaus Hensel, Johann Lippet, Herta Müller, Werner Söllner and William Totok 1990/91 Rom-Preis, of the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo 2000 ndl-Literaturpreis 2008 Georg Dehio Book Prize 2011 Donauschwäbischer Kulturpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Ehrengabe für sein Gesamtwerk 2014 Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Membership
Aktionsgruppe Banat. Literaturkreis Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn]
He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society.
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