Günter Grass

Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig, to a German father and a Kashubian mother who ran a grocery. Conscripted at seventeen, in the autumn of 1944, into the Waffen-SS, he did not reveal it until 2006. After captivity, he learned stonecutting and studied sculpture in Düsseldorf and Berlin, then read his texts at Group 47 from 1955. He campaigned for the Social Democrats and for Willy Brandt. A sculptor, draughtsman and engraver, he received the Nobel Prize in 1999 and died in Lübeck in 2015.

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• NovelThe Tin DrumDie BlechtrommelGünter Grass · 1959Literature