41. Günter Grass - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Representatives of the City of Bremen joined together to establish the Günter grass Foundation, with the aim of establishing a centralized collection of his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Grass

G¼nter Grass From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search G¼nter Wilhelm Grass Born October 16 Danzig-Langfuhr Free City of Danzig Occupation ... German Writing period 1956-present Debut works The Tin Drum Influences Bocaccio Fran§ois Rabelais Grimmelshausen Cervant¨s ... Albert Camus , the Nouveau Roman Vladimir Nabokov Influenced Gabriel Garc­a M¡rquez Salman Rushdie Haruki Murakami John Irving ... Patrick S¼skind G¼nter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16 ) is a Nobel Prize -winning German author and playwright He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk Poland ). Since 1945, he has lived in (the now former) West Germany , but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood. He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum , a key text in European magic realism . His works frequently have a strong ( left wing socialist ) political dimension, and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 2006, Grass caused a controversy with his belated disclosure of Waffen-SS service during the final months of World War II Contents Works Life Political activism Disclosure of Waffen-SS Membership ... edit Works English-speaking readers probably know Grass best as the author of The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel ), published in 1959 (and

42. Günter Grass Short biography, suggestions for further reading, selected bibliography. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ggrass.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker, who, with his extraordinary first novel die BLECHTROMMEL (1959, The Tin Drum) became the literary spokesman for the German generation that grew up in Nazi era. Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. The author has described himself as "Spätaufklärer", a belated apostle of enlightenment in an era that has grown tired of reason. He has once said, that writers, by giving us ''mouth-to-ear artificial respiration,'' help keep humanity alive. "You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at the very start that it's impossible to write a novel nowadays, but then, behind your own back so to speak, give birth to a whopper, a novel to end all novels." (from The Tin Drum Günter Grass was born in the (former) Free City of Danzig (now Gdánsk, Poland), the scene of his several novels. His father owned a grocery and his mother was of Kashubian origin - Slavic people distinct from the Poles both as to language and culture. Grass was educated at Danzig Volksschule and Gymnasium. In the 1930s he joined the Hitler Youth, was drafted into the army at the age of 16, and wounded in a battle in 1945. In an interview from 2006, Grass admitted that he had served in the notorious Waffen SS. "It had to come out finally," Grass said. "It will stain me forever." Grass was imprisoned in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Freed in 1946, Grass supported himself by working on farms, in a potash mine, and as a stonemason's apprentice.

43. Literature 1999 Short biography, a selection of works, press release, interview, and speeches. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1999/

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44. The Strange Silence Of Günter Grass By concealing for a nearlifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/birnbaum

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45. Peeling The Onion - Günter Grass - Books - Review - New York Times Günter grass’s memoir was published last summer in Germany to a chorus of controversy over the author’s service in the Waffen SS. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/books/review/Irving.html

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46. An Open Letter To Günter Grass - August 17, 2006 - The New York Sun An Open Letter to Günter grass August 17, 2006 - The New York Sun. http://www.nysun.com/article/38082

GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-2780138255948105", "NYSUN_ROS_Mid_ATF_125x125"); Current Weather Recent Editions Mon Tue Wed Thu January 25-27, 2008 Search Archives: Advertise Subscribe Contact Us Email Alerts ... Print An Open Letter to Günter Grass By DANIEL JOHNSON August 17, 2006 A D V E R T I S E M E N T A D V E R T I S E M E N T Dear Günter Grass, First: why an open letter? I have never written one before, whereas you have written dozens. You are, so to speak, Europe's leading man of open letters. I admit that the idea of turning the tables on you did appeal to me. But there is another, more personal reason for my decision to address you in this way. In a newspaper interview about your autobiography, "Peeling the Onion," you have admitted after 60 years, that you belonged to the Waffen SS. I want to make you aware of my feeling of betrayal — a feeling I believe I share with most of your countrymen. And I want to show solidarity with the victims, living and dead, of the regime you tried so hard to prolong. A public intellectual like yourself is, of course, entitled to preserve a private sphere. But there are certain biographical facts about which it is necessary to be open, as I am sure you would agree. You do not need me to tell you that, for a German of your generation, frankness about your activities during the Third Reich is not merely a moral imperative, but a sine qua non for any kind of public role. Let me first recall a memorable scene in 1970: Willy Brandt falling on his knees at the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto. It was the most moving and powerful image of German repentance of the whole postwar era. You were there at his side, representing German culture, as the German chancellor went to sign his historic treaty with Poland and made his spontaneous gesture of atonement for the Holocaust.

47. Günter Grass Writer Blechtrommel, Die. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335848/

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48. Personal History: How I Spent The War: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker grass, right, in 1944, at sixteen, when he was drafted into the Labor Service. Keywords grass, Günter; Germany, Germans; Second World War (World War II); http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_grass

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49. Günter Grass - Wikipédia Translate this page En 2002, Günter grass, parfois accusé de s être reposé sur ses lauriers après ses premiers succès littéraires, revient au premier plan de la littérature http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Grass

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50. I Was In Hitler S SS, Admits Günter Grass Germany was rocked by the revelations last night that Günter grass, its greatest living author and doyen of the Left, was a member of Hitler s elite http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/12/wss12.xml

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52. Guenter Grass (1927- ) Biography, background, and links for the Nobel Prizewinning German author Günter grass (Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Danzig Trilogy, Peeling Onions). http://german.about.com/od/literature/a/Grass.htm

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53. Salon Books | "My Century" By Günter Grass In a new novel, the cantankerous 1999 Nobel laureate takes on his times, year by year. http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/12/14/grass/

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Books Book Bag Sincerely ours The author of "Dewey Defeats Truman" selects five great collections of letters. By Thomas Mallon Reviews "The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction" by Linda Gordon A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans, their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob. By Debra Dickerson Ivory Tower Pimping a Ph.D. A new graduate program turns Chaucer scholars into money-grubbing entrepreneurs. By Michael Erard Bedside salivating Some cookbooks make such great reading (and such lousy guides to fixing dinner) that you never need to take them into the kitchen. By Ann Hodgman Reviews "Swaggart" by Ann Rowe Seaman A thorough biography of the disgraced televangelist drops a bombshell about his Louisiana childhood. By Virginia Vitzthum Complete archives for Books My C E N T U R Y BY GÜNTER GRASS, TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY MICHAEL HENRY HEYM

54. The Tin Drum Book Notes Summary By Günter Grass: Author/Context Günter grass was born on October 16, 1927 in Danzig, a northern port city in Poland. His parents owned a small retail grocery store. http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ttd/BIO.htm

Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Search "The Tin Drum" Book Notes Summary Navigation Summary Pack on The Tin Drum Table of Contents Author/Context ... Quotes Topic Tracking Individuality/Identity Book 1, Chapter 1: The Wide Skirt Chapter 2: Under the Raft Chapter 3: Moth and Light Bulb ... Amazon.com The Tin Drum Book Notes Summary by G¼nter Grass About 134 pages (40,116 words) The Tin Drum Summary Author/Context Die Blechtrommel The Tin Drum ), winning several international awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is most well-known for his fiction, which include Katz und Maus Cat and Mouse, Hundejahre Dog Years, Der Butt The Flounder, Kopfgeburten: oder die Deutschen sterben aus Headbirths: or, the Germans Are Dying Out, 1982), and Unkenrufe The Call of the Toad, The Tin Drum was later made into a motion picture (1979). Grass has been heavily involved in politics throughout his life, and his political essays have been influential in the thinking of the Social Democratic Party in Germany. Grass' fiction borrows much of its influence from twentieth century movements such as Expressionism and Theater of the Absurd. He is known for his use of objects and objective correlative to propel his story line, instead of strict narrative. Grass sees a separation between the man-made categories of morality and logic and the actual thread of events. His chosen objects take on a certain ambiguity of meaning and lack straightforward morality. His objects take an individual personality in his novels, becoming extended metaphors and motifs that hold throughout the text. In the same vein, Grass plays with time in his work, both extending and foreshortening traditional narrative distance and flow. This holds for point-of-view as well - Oskar in

55. Günter Grass Was In The Waffen SS - Signandsight Reactions by authors and critics to Nobel Prize winning author Günter grass confession that at 17 he served in the Waffen SS, the most brutal Nazi combat http://www.signandsight.com/features/899.html

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56. Literary Encyclopedia Günter Grass Günter grass was born on 16 October 1927 in the then “Free City of Danzig,” now Polish Gdansk. His parents, Willy grass (18991979) and Helene née Knoff http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4990

57. The Road From Danzig - The New York Review Of Books Ein Buch, Ein Bekenntnis Die Debatte um Günter grass Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter grass, translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20490

Home Your account Current issue Archives ... August 16, 2007 The Road from Danzig By Timothy Garton Ash Dummer August Peeling the Onion Harcourt, 425 pp., $26.00 Peeling the Onion ? We should, I believe, have said that this is a wonderful book, a return to classic Grass territory and style, after long years of disappointing, wooden, and sometimes insufferably hectoring works from his tireless pen, and a perfect pendant to his great "Danzig trilogy" of novels, starting with The Tin Drum . That is what we should still say, first and last. An account of his life from the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, when as an eleven-year-old war-enthusiast he collected fragments of shrapnel from the first fighting in his native Danzig, to the publication of The Tin Drum in 1959, Peeling the Onion aj_server = 'http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/'; aj_tagver = '1.0'; aj_zone = 'nyrb'; aj_adspot = '147551'; aj_page = '0'; aj_dim ='147520'; aj_ch = ''; aj_ct = ''; aj_kw = ''; aj_pv = true; aj_click = ''; When he is drafted into the armed forces at the age of sixteen, in the fall of 1944, and finds himself in a unit of the Waffen-SS, his reaction to the hardships of training is to stop in a quiet corner of the woods through which he has been ordered to carry a daily pot of coffee to his company's

58. Günter Grass Enters The Fray: Critique Against 'Xenophobic' Campaign Heats Up - Nobel Prize winning author Günter grass stepped into the raging debate over foreign youth criminals on Friday. He called Roland Koch, whose tones have been http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,528131,00.html

Sunday, 1/27/2008 RSS Mobile Newsletter SPIEGEL ONLINE International NACHRICHTEN VIDEO ENGLISH ... Share January 11, 2008 Digg Stumble Upon Reddit Facebook ... Google Font: Critique against 'Xenophobic' Campaign Heats Up The tenor of political discourse in Germany, already suffering from weeks of mudslinging in a debate about youth criminality perpetrated by those with foreign backgrounds, continued to decline on Friday. And the critique against the Christian Democratic (CDU) governor of Hesse Roland Koch, who kicked off the dispute in late December, is mounting. REUTERS Hesse's Governor Roland Koch steps out of his campaign bus for an event on Friday. On Friday, Peter Struck, parliamentary floor leader for the Social Democrats (SPD), accused Koch of cynically latching on to the issue as part of his campaign for re-election in a state vote on Jan. 27 an election that could have national significance should the CDU lose. "I think that deep down, Roland Koch was actually happy that this terrible incident in the Munich subway took place," he said, referring to a Dec. 20 attack on an elderly man by two youths with immigration backgrounds. "I wonder if Mr. Koch would have raised the issue had it been two German youths who assaulted that pensioner." RELATED SPIEGEL ONLINE LINKS Opinion: When It Comes to Integration, Silence Is Golden

59. Grass, Günter (Wilhelm) - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Grass, Günter Hutchinson encyclopedia article about grass, Günter (Wilhelm). grass, Günter (Wilhelm). Information about grass, Günter (Wilhelm) in the Hutchinson http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Grass, Günter (Wilhelm)

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Grass, Günter (Wilhelm)' Printer Friendly 761,820,314 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia 0.03 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) German writer. The grotesque humour and socialist feeling of his novels (1959) and (1977) are also characteristic of many of his poems. Deeply committed politically, Grass's works contain a mixture of scurrility, humour, tragedy, satire, and marvellously inventive imagery. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Die Blechtrommel , one of the most successful post-war German novels, is narrated by a midget, Oskar, who willed himself to stop growing at the age of three, a device that enabled the Grass to hover between fantasy and realism and achieve a detachment to make the scenes and characters of German life before and during the Nazi regime stand out with extraordinary clarity and humour. Die Blechtrommel while it was still unfinished. The brilliant, tightly controlled novella

60. Günter Grass's Silence - TIME The Nobel laureate draws fire for his secret Nazi past. But his lies may have helped postwar Germany face some bitter truths. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1226380,00.html

var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Home U.S. The Page Main ... Pictures of the Week Günter Grass's Silence Monday, Aug. 14, 2006 By NATHAN THORNBURGH German author, artist and Nobel laureate Günter Grass SEBASTIAN WILLNOW / AFP / GETTY Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS It would be a tough day for anyone, the day you admit you were a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS. Sixty years after war's end, there continues to be, to put it mildly, a p.r. problem for Germans who belonged to Heinrich Himmler's personal army, the largely volunteer force that staffed the concentration camps and crushed the Warsaw Uprising. Related Articles Sphere.Inline.search('sphereSideBar','http://time.com/') tiiQuigoWriteAd(755776, 1290759, 180, 200, -1); Now imagine making that confession after a lifetime of establishing yourself as Germany's most ardent advocate of full disclosure and penance. There you are, having been jabbing a finger in the German body politic's chest for 60 years, accusing them of failing to own up to their collective responsibility for the war. And it turns out you've had a dirty little secret of your own all along. This is exactly what happened on last week to Günter Grass, the novelist and Nobel literature laureate who was the voice of Germany's war generation. The admission came in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, in advance of the release next month in Germany of Grass's new autobiography

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