Günther Grass

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Günter Grass (* October 16th, 1927 in Danzig/Gdank) is a German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1 Life
2 Bibliography
- 2.1 English Translations
3 External links

[edit] Life

Grass was born in Danzig in 1927 and went to school there. In the World War II he had to serve in the airforce, afrterwards he was prisoner of war of the U.S. army. In 1945 and 1946 he worked as a stoneman, up from 1946 he studied arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Universität der Künste in Western Berlin. He was member of the group 47. He lived in North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein. Actually he lives in Lübeck. In 1959 he published The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), his most famous work. He was always intrested in politics and helped in election campains of the SPD. He was a friend of Willy Brandt. Grass got the Nobel Prize in 1999.

[edit] Bibliography

Danziger Trilogie
- Die Blechtrommel (1959)
- Katz und Maus (1961)
- Hundejahre (1963)
Örtlich betäubt (1969)
Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke (1972)
Der Butt (1979)
Das Treffen in Telgte (1979)
Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus (1980)
Die Rättin (1986)
Zunge zeigen. Ein Tagebuch in Zeichnungen (1988)
Unkenrufe (1992)
Ein weites Feld (1995)
Mein Jahrhundert (1999)
Im Krebsgang (2002)
Letzte Tänze (2003)

[edit] English Translations

The Danzig Trilogy
- The Tin Drum (1959)
- Cat and Mouse (1963)
- Dog Years (1965)
Four Plays (1967)
Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969)
Local Anaesthetic (1970)
From the Diary of a Snail (1973)
In the Egg and Other Poems (1977)
The Meeting at Telgte (1981)
The Flounder (1978)
Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out (1982)
The Rat (1987)
Show Your Tongue (1987)
Two States One Nation? (1990)
The Call of the Toad (1992)
The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1996)
My Century (1999)
Too Far Afield (2000)
Crabwalk (2002)