Hans Werner Richter

Hans Werner Richter was born in 1908 in Neu Sallenthin, on the island of Usedom, the son of a fisherman, and grew up in Bansin. A bookseller, he joined the Communist Party in 1930, which expelled him in 1932. Called up in 1940, a prisoner of the Americans from 1943, he published the journal Der Ruf in the camps, which he resumed in Munich in 1946 with Alfred Andersch until it was banned in 1947. He then brought writers together to read and discuss their texts: this would become Group 47, which met until 1967. He died in Munich in 1993 and is buried in Bansin, as he wished.

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• NovelSpuren im SandHans Werner Richter · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature