He was considered one of the greatest German writers of the postwar period. Günter Grass died at the age of 87 years at the consequences of infection.
His first novel, “The Tin Drum” in 1959 appeared Grass opened the door to fame. Just as the young Federal Republic was preparing it comfortably set up in fresh prosperity, shook the 32-year old born Danziger, who had witnessed as a youth, the horrors of war, at its historical amnesia: a picaresque novel about those very dark time that you just so cozy wanted to displace. And once again dared someone deeply – deepest possible -. To reach into the cornucopia of the German language
The older writers such as Günter Eich and Heinrich Böll had after the war by the time of National Socialism “damaged German language found” and therefore served a very meager, restricted language, Grass once said. “And for me it was very clear that we should not punish the language just because it has been abused, it was my desire that I then can pull out all the stops.”
Nearly 20 works of fiction he published, of” cat and mouse “to” A broad field “of” The Butt “to” Crab Walk “.
Since the beginning of the 70s lived Grass in Schleswig-Holstein, first in Wewelsfleth on the River Elbe, then, with his second wife Ute near a forest near Lübeck, in the tranquil Behlendorf. This surprised him in October 1999, the message that he was the new Nobel Prize for Literature.
Seven years later, he admitted to have been as a young man in the Waffen-SS. For his criticism of Israel he earned much criticism in recent years.
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