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Günter Grass

Also known as Günter Graß, Günter Wilhelm Graß, Gunter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

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Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German lyricist, screenwriter, poet, and sculptor. He was born in the Free City of Danzig on October 16, 1927, and died in Lübeck on April 13, 2015. A member of the Catholic Church, he was educated at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Berlin University of the Arts. His notable works include The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, and Crabwalk.

Grass received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Georg Büchner Prize, the Hermann Kesten Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Literary Prize. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and participated in World War II. His affiliations included the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Group 47. He resided in Paris, Friedenau, Wewelsfleth, and Behlendorf, and had a child named Helene Grass.

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Free City of Danzig, Germany

Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Known for

Bewegte Republik Deutschland — Self2014
Autoren erzählen — Self2012
Vom Glanz und Vergehen der Gruppe 47 — Self2008
Max Frisch, Citoyen — Self2008
Germany, Your Artists — Self2008
365 Day Project — Self2007
Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass — Self2007
NDR Kultur – Das Journal — Self2002
Polis — Self2001
Terra X History — Self2000

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Germany
Active from: 1927
Active to: 2015

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1999
“whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history”

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Wilhelm
Gender: male
Citizenship: Germany
Place of birth: Gdańsk
Place of death: Lübeck
Child: Helene Grass
Occupation: librettist
Political party: Social Democratic Party of Germany
Languages spoken: German
Native language: German
Religion: Catholic Church
Notable work: The Call of the Toad
Field of work: fiction
Conflict: World War II
Official website: www.grass-stiftung.de
Image: Günter Grass, 2004.jpg
Number of children: 8
Residence: Gdańsk

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Commons category: Günter Grass
date of birth: 1927-10-16
member of: Group 47
date of death: 2015-04-13
topic's main category: Category:Günter Grass
Commons gallery: Günter Grass
birth name: Günter Wilhelm Grass
name in native language: Günter Grass
cause of death: infection
start of work period: 1956-00-00
military unit: 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg
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Encyclopedic overview

Günter Wilhelm Grass ( German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas] ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). At age 17, he was drafted into the military and served from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS. He was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.

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