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Also known as Günter Graß, Günter Wilhelm Graß, Gunter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

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Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German lyricist, screenwriter, poet, and sculptor. He was born in the Free City of Danzig on October 16, 1927, and died in Lübeck on April 13, 2015. A member of the Catholic Church, he was educated at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Berlin University of the Arts. His notable works include The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, and Crabwalk.

Grass received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Georg Büchner Prize, the Hermann Kesten Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Literary Prize. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and participated in World War II. His affiliations included the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Group 47. He resided in Paris, Friedenau, Wewelsfleth, and Behlendorf, and had a child named Helene Grass.

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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.

Known for

  • 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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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Germany
Active from
1927
Active to
2015

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature1999

    whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history

Official website

Günter und Ute Grass Stiftung

Informieren Sie sich über die Günter und Ute Grass Stiftung. Erfahren Sie mehr über den FREIPASS, eine Schriftenreihe der Günter und Ute Grass Stiftung.

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Encyclopedic overview

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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