Hans Werner Richter

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Hans Werner Richter
180px Hans Werner Richter in 1992
Born	(1908-11-12)12 November 1908 Neu Sallenthin, German Empire
Died	Munich, Germany
Occupation	Novelist

Hans Werner Richter (12 November 1908 – 23 March 1993) was a German writer.

Born in Neu Sallenthin, Usedom, Richter is little known for his own works but found worldwide 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, aged 84.

Works

• Diene Söhne Europa - Gedichte deutscher Kreigsgefangener (collected poems, 1947)
• Die Geschlagenen (novel, 1949)
• Sie fielen aus Gottes Hand (novel, 1951)
• Spuren im Sand (novel, 1953)
• Du sollst nicht töten (novel, 1955)
• Linus Fleck oder Der Verlust der Würde (1959)
• Bestandsaufnahme – Eine deutsche Bilanz (1962)
• Bismarck (1964)
• Karl Marx in Samarkand (1966)
• Blinder Alarm (story, 1970)
• Briefe an einen jungen Sozialisten (autobiography, 1974)
• Die Flucht nach Abanon (story, 1980)
• Die Stunde der falschen Triumphe (novel, 1981)
• Ein Julitag (novel, 1982)