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Representatives of the city of Bremen joined to establish the Günter Grass Foundation with the aim of establishing a centralized collection of his numerous works, especially his many personal readings, videos and films. The Günter Grass House in Lübeck houses exhibitions of his drawings and sculptures, and an archive and a library.
West Germany. Published in English. November 1978. Pages. 693. ISBN. 3-472-86069-3. The Flounder ( German: Der Butt, pronounced [deːɐ̯ bʊt] ⓘ) is a 1977 novel by the German writer Günter Grass. It is loosely based on the fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife".
Günter Grass bibliography. Günter Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German writer, sculptor and graphic artist. He had an international breakthrough as a novelist with his Danzig Trilogy (1959–1963). He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1965 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.
Group 47. Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a group of participants in German writers' meetings, invited by Hans Werner Richter between 1947 and 1967. [1] The meetings served the dual goals of literary criticism as well as the promotion of young, unknown authors. In a democratic vote titled "Preis der Gruppe 47" (Prize of Group 47), it elevated many who ...
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 ...
"What Must Be Said" (German: Was gesagt werden muss) is a 2012 prose poem by the German writer Günter Grass, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. The poem discusses an alleged threat of annihilation of the Iranian people and the writer's fears that Germany's delivery to Israel of a sixth Dolphin-class submarine capable of carrying nuclear warheads might facilitate an eventual ...
Nobel Prize in Literature. · 2000 →. The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German writer Günter Grass (1927–2015) "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." [1] He is the eighth German author to become a recipient of the prize after Heinrich Böll in 1972 .
A massive sink hole stretching 100 feet opened up in an Illinois park on Wednesday, swallowing a light pole in the middle of recreational fields and leaving a gaping, deep hole in its wake.