Günter Grass
16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015
Günter Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright and graphic artist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. His first novel, The Tin Drum, published in 1959, became a central work of post-war German literature and the opening volume of his Danzig Trilogy. He was active in West German politics and in 2006 disclosed that he had served in the Waffen-SS as a teenager.
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Life events
Born on 16 October 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr, now part of Gdańsk, Poland.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was drafted at the age of 17 and assigned to a tank division in the final months of the Second World War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was held as a prisoner of war until his release in 1946.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf before continuing at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple had four children and divorced in 1978.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis first novel brought him international recognition and was filmed by Volker Schlöndorff in 1979.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThey remained married until his death.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Swedish Academy cited frolicsome black fables that portray the forgotten face of history.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe revelation came in an interview ahead of his memoir Beim Häuten der Zwiebel and prompted extensive public debate in Germany.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died of a lung infection at the age of 87.
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