Hans Werner Richter

For other people of the same name, see Hans Richter (disambiguation).

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 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

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