Hans Werner Richter

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

Born in Neu-Sallenthin, 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.

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)
* "Ein Julitag" (novel, 1982)