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Q6538 refers to Günter Grass, a renowned German writer and artist who created novels, poetry, plays, and visual art during his long career from the mid-20th century until his death in 2015. He matters because he was one of Germany's most important literary figures, known for works that grappled with German history and identity, particularly in relation to World War II and the Holocaust.
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- 1927-10-16
- Died
- 2015-04-13
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Writing · Free City of Danzig, Germany
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Bewegte Republik Deutschland — Self2014
- Autoren erzählen — Self2012
- Vom Glanz und Vergehen der Gruppe 47 — Self2008
- Max Frisch, Citoyen — Self2008
- Germany, Your Artists — Self2008
- 365 Day Project — Self2007
- Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass — Self2007
- NDR Kultur – Das Journal — Self2002
- Polis — Self2001
- Terra X History — Self2000
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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.
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1927 births2015 deaths20th-century German dramatists and playwrights20th-century German essayists20th-century German male artists20th-century German male writers20th-century German memoirists20th-century German novelists20th-century German poets20th-century German sculptors21st-century German essayists21st-century German male writers