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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.
Günter Grass (born October 16, 1927, Danzig [now Gdańsk, Poland]—died April 13, 2015, Lübeck, Germany) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker who, with his extraordinary first novel Die Blechtrommel (1959; The Tin Drum ), became the literary spokesman for the German generation that grew up in the Nazi era and ...
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Günter Wilhelm Grass [1] (* 16. Oktober 1927 in Danzig - Langfuhr, Freie Stadt Danzig, als Günter Wilhelm Graß; [2] † 13. April 2015 in Lübeck) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Bildhauer, Maler und Grafiker. Grass gehörte seit 1957 zur Gruppe 47 und wurde mit seinem Debütroman Die Blechtrommel 1959 zu einem international geachteten ...
Biographical. Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr of Polish-German parents. After military service and captivity by American forces 1944-46, he worked as a farm labourer and miner and studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin. 1956-59 he made his living as a sculptor, graphic artist and writer in Paris, and subsequently Berlin.
German writer Günter Grass also made a living as a graphic artist and sculptor. He grew up in Danzig during World War II and joined the Waffen-SS, something he comes to terms with in the autobiographical novel Peeling the Onion (2006). Grass was a political activist and did not hesitate to comment on contemporary events.
Apr 13, 2015 · Günter Wilhelm Grass came of age on a continent torn by hatred. He was born in Danzig on Oct. 16, 1927, to a German father and a mother who was a Kashubian, a Slavic ethnic group with its own ...
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The Tin Drum. The Tin Drum ( German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. To "beat a tin drum" means to create a ...
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