Im Umbruch der Zeit: Richard Wagners Romane und rumäniendeutsche Bezüge¹

Abstract This paper is dedicated to the Romanian-German author Richard Wagner, who died in Berlin in March 2023. The purpose of the article is to analyse the novels of Richard Wagner, who, as mentor of the literary group „Aktionsgruppe Banat”, became one of the most important contemporary German-language authors. Most of his novels are largely autobiographical and deal with the political events of the time and with live in poverty during the oppressive regime of Ceaușescu. Wagner‘s writings focus also on the political, cultural and linguistic challenges that immigrants from East-Central European countries face in West Germany. This article aims to shed light on central aspects of the Romanian-German influences in Richard Wagner‘s novels.