Günter Grass

Sort Name: Grass, Günter
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Type: Person
Gender: Male

Date of birth: 1927-10-16
Place of birth: Gdańsk

Date of death: 2015-04-15
Place of death: Lübeck

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Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS. He was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.

Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded Grass the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".

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German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Series:
• Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy)

Last modified: 2022-04-16 (revision #92445)

Editions

Name	Format	ISBN	Release Date
Das Treffen in Telgte: Eine Erzählung	Paperback	3-499-14770-X	1981-07
Ein weites Feld	Paperback	3-423-12447-4	1998-01
örtlich betäubt	Paperback	3-436-01504-0	1972-04
Theaterspiele (Günter Grass)	Paperback	3-499-11857-2	1975-09
Der Butt	Hardcover	?	?
Die Rättin	Paperback	3-499-12200-6	1988-10

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Günter Grass wrote Irgendwas machen
Günter Grass wrote Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand
Günter Grass is the subject of Der deutsche Roman der Gegenwart: Entwicklungsvoraussetzungen und Tendenzen; Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, Hermann Kant
Günter Grass wrote Die Schweinekopfsülze
Günter Grass wrote The Tin Drum(Ralph Manheim translation)
Günter Grass wrote Meine grüne Wiese
Günter Grass wrote blurb for Helden wie wir
Günter Grass wrote Polnische Fahne
Günter Grass wrote Der Neubau
Günter Grass wrote Der Epilog(Schon hat gerechter Zorn seinen Schneider gefunden)
Günter Grass wrote örtlich betäubt
Günter Grass wrote "Tour de France"(Günter Grass poem)
Günter Grass wrote Davor
Günter Grass wrote Adornos Zunge
Günter Grass wrote Onkel, Onkel
Günter Grass is part of Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates (number: 1999)
Günter Grass wrote Es gibt Ehen, die werden auf keinem Standesamt besiegelt
Günter Grass wrote Der Butt
Günter Grass wrote Mein Jahrhundert
Günter Grass wrote Hochwasser
Günter Grass wrote Pan Kiehot
Günter Grass wrote blurb for Die Asche meiner Mutter: Irische Erinnerungen
Günter Grass wrote Noch zehn Minuten bis Buffalo
Günter Grass wrote Ehe(Wir haben Kinder)
Günter Grass wrote Die Blechtrommel
Günter Grass wrote Die Rättin
Günter Grass wrote Cat and Mouse(novella by Günter Grass - Ralph Manheim translation)
Günter Grass wrote Mein Onkel(Günter Grass poem)
Günter Grass wrote Die Linkshänder
Günter Grass wrote In Ohnmacht gefallen
Günter Grass wrote Die Ballade von der schwarzen Wolke
Günter Grass wrote Kinderlied(Wer lacht hier, hat gelacht?)
Günter Grass wrote Katz und Maus
Günter Grass wrote Advent(poem by Günter Grass)
Günter Grass wrote Kirschen
Günter Grass wrote Das Treffen in Telgte: Eine Erzählung
Günter Grass wrote Studienrat Brunies
Günter Grass is the subject of Was Günter Grass von mir denkt
Günter Grass wrote Ein weites Feld
Günter Grass wrote Racine lässt sein Wappen ändern
Günter Grass wrote König Lear(poem by Günter Grass)
Günter Grass wrote Mein Freund Walter Henn ist tot
Günter Grass wrote Dog Years(Ralph Manheim translation)
Günter Grass wrote Falada
Günter Grass wrote Die bösen Köche
Günter Grass is the subject of Eine Müdeheldensoße: Günter Grass: "Örtlich betäubt"
Günter Grass wrote Hundejahre
Günter Grass designed Das Treffen in Telgte: Eine Erzählung

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Goodreads Author ID

749461

ISNI

0000 0001 2096 7591

LibraryThing Author

grassgunter

MusicBrainz Artist ID

f1b303ea-8965-44dc-a31b-3b8266800ba9

OpenLibrary Author ID

OL28731A

VIAF

102319859

Wikidata ID

Q6538

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