- Literaturnobelpresiträger Günter Grass with 87 years died
- Large sympathy from the ranks of politics and society
- Wastberg: “He was the 20th century, at least according to Thomas Mann”
“A true giant” wrote the author Salman Rushdie. “Günter Grass was a world of letters. His literary legacy will stand beside the von Goethe “said Culture Minister Monika Grütters (CDU). Grass died in a hospital consequence of a severe infection, such as its secretariat in Lübeck announced. He died surrounded by his family.
Nobel Prize in 1999 for “The Tin Drum”
“He was the 20th century, at least according to Thomas Mann,” said juror Per Wastberg of the Swedish Academy , She had Grass 1999 awarded the Nobel Prize for “The Tin Drum”. The Nobel Committee had praised the work as the “rebirth of the German novel in the 20th century”: “” The Tin Drum “is a milestone in European literature” Since 1960 Grass had been “with its great imagination is the dominant European auteur”. . In “The Tin Drum” Grass told of the experiences that coming from Gdansk dwarf Oskar Matzerath who refuses to three years to continue to grow.
Still March 28, Grass had witnessed the premiere of “The Tin Drum” in the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and attended the premiere party with his grown children. His last literary work entitled “Vonne Endlichkait” will release in the summer of Steidl Verlag. Grass had until a few days worked before his death in the book, said his publisher Gerhard Steidl, Gottingen.
About the place and date of the funeral, there was initially no information. The city of Lübeck is preparing a funeral service.
“In his novels there are the aspirations of generations”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) said: “With the death of Günter Grass loses the Federal Republic of . Germany an artist that I take with deep respect farewell “Federal President Joachim Gauck Gauck called Grass a great author and combative political spirit:” In his novels, short stories and in his poetry, there are the high hopes and errors, the fears and desires entire generations. “
The SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel called Grass a companion, a close friend and adviser of German social democracy. “With him we lose one of the most important writers of the postwar German history and a dedicated writer and fighter for democracy and peace.” Even Bundestag President Norbert Lammert and the Greens and the Left acknowledged the century author who was born in Danzig. The literary significance emphasized among many others, the two Nobel literature Elfriede Jelinek and Imre Kertész
Adamowicz. “He was our countryman”
Grass had been used after the Second World War early for reconciliation with Poland and the early 1970s supports the Ostpolitik of the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD). The news of his death broke in Gdansk dismay. Mayor Pawel Adamowicz said: “He was our countrymen.” Grass was an honorary citizen of his native town
Critical Timeline however, there were in Israel.. Grass had criticized the policy of the government and the nuclear-armed country, 2012 in the poem “What must be said”. The Association hebräischsprachiger writer held a political Grass “delegitimization” of Israel against it: “. Until his death Günter Grass has shown no remorse for his harsh anti-Israeli statements”
“With the death of Lenz and Grass is an entire era to an end – a literary and political “
Grass was with his first novel in 1959 published” succeeded Tin Drum “, literary breakthrough , The appearance of the education and picaresque novel called in the Federal Republic of some moral police on the scene who was bothered by the sometimes ribald erotic scenes. Since the “Buddenbrooks” by Thomas Mann not have caused such an uproar debut, was later the Nobel Prize Committee. Volker Schlöndorff’s film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film (1980).
For the director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Joachim Lux, is the death of Grass, a few months after the by Siegfried Lenz (“German Hour”), a deep cut. “With the death of Siegfried Lenz and Günter Grass in a short time a whole era is finally over – a literary and political,” Lux said
“. The Box “,” Peeling the Onion “,” Grimm’s words “
For more than 25 years living in Behlendorf in Lübeck Grass had made a stonemason teaching after the war and studied art in Dusseldorf and Berlin; He was a sculptor and graphic artist. He also drew and wrote even by the critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki acclaimed poems. “The Tin Drum”, together with the novel “Cat and Mouse” (1961) and the novel “Dog Years” (1963), the Danzig Trilogy. In addition, Grass has a trilogy of remembrance written with the autobiographical volumes “Peeling the Onion” (2006), “The Box” (2008) and “Grimm’s words” (2010).
Other important works are the novel “From the Diary of a Snail”, the novels “The Butt” (1977) and “The Rat” (1986), the skandalumrankte book “A wide field” (1995) and the novella “Crab Walk” (2002) on the suffering of Germans in the self-inflicted Second World War by the example of the sinking of the ship “Wilhelm Gustloff” in 1945 with more than 10 000 people on board – caused by a submarine of the Russian Navy
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With the autobiography “Peeling the Onion” caused Grass in 2006 for some outcry. Grass was accused of having concealed his short SS membership for decades, while others have repeatedly and publicly criticized for its Nazi past. Some people spoke to him from the moral integrity.
The German reunification in 1990, held Grass for hasty, he also pleaded unsuccessfully for a new joint German Constitution. Klaus Staeck, president of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, said: “If he saw a threat to democracy, he was no need to tackle out of the way.”
The complete works of Nobel laureate was published in the Göttingen Steidl Verlag. The Berlin Academy of Arts, who belonged Grass and its president from 1983 to 1986 in charge of the literary Grass archive up to and including “A wide field” (1995), the work manuscripts incurred after that date are supervised in the Grass House in Lübeck.
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