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Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Born 16 October 1927 · Died 13 April 2015 · Q6538
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It was like that for many of my generation. We were doing army service and then suddenly, one year later, the draft order was on the table. And then I realised, probably not until I was in Dresden, that it was the Waffen SS.
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2026· 12 entries
“My silence through all these years is one of the reasons why I wrote this book. It had to come out finally.”
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“It was like that for many of my generation. We were doing army service and then suddenly, one year later, the draft order was on the table. And then I realised, probably not until I was in Dresden, that it was the Waffen SS.”
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“It leads to a poverty of language and allows everything to be forgotten that the Grimm brothers created with their glorious work.”
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“If I had been born three or four years earlier I would, surely, have seen myself caught up in those crimes .”
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“That hasn’t been possible; given my background, I have had no other choice.”
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“His literary work won him recognition early across the world, as witnessed not least by his Nobel prize.”
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“because I want to have the last word”
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“After 60 years, this confession comes a bit too late. I can't understand how someone who for decades set himself up as a moral authority, a rather smug one, could pull this off.”
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“was confronted with the anger of an Israeli public that booed him in successive public appearances. To be sure, the Israeli protestors were not targeting Grass personally and their anger had nothing at all to do with his literature. It was the German effort to establish cultural relations with Israel to which they objected. Grass, however, did not see it that way and may well have felt personally slighted.”
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The New York Times: Günter Grass
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The Atlantic: Günter Grass
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Tin Drum review – Kneehigh turn Grass's fable into chaotic cabaret
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Günter Grass: ‘When the time comes, we will rest on leaves’
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2015· 39 entries
The Guardian: Günter Grass on his new book The Flounder: from the archive, 13 October 1978
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The Guardian: Günter Grass criticises refugee treatment from beyond the grave
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The Daily Star: Cat and Mouse By Gunter Grass
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The Guardian: Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence
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Hindustan Times: Gunter Grass was more human than his detractors allow!
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The Daily Star: Gunter Grass in Dhaka
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The Nation: Remembering Günter Grass
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The Guardian: Günter Grass: final interview reveals author's fears of another world war
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The Guardian: Günter Grass personified Germany’s difficult relationship with its Nazi past | Hans Kundnani
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NDTV: Gunter Grass Warned of 'Sleepwalking' Into World War in Final Interview
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The Guardian: Mourners pay tribute to Günter Grass: "One of the most important authors of the 20th century": - video
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The Guardian: Günter Grass, Nobel-winning German novelist, dies aged 87
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The Guardian: Günter Grass: a life in pictures
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PBS: Günter Grass, German novelist who probed Nazi past while hiding his own, dies at 87
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The Guardian: Günter Grass: four key works
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NPR: Günter Grass, Nobel-Winning Author Of 'The Tin Drum,' Dies At 87
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Wall Street Journal: Günter Grass, Nobel Prize-Winning German Writer, Dies Aged 87
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Mediaite: Renowned German Novelist Günter Grass Dies at 87
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Died 2015-04-13.
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LAist: Günter Grass, Who Confronted Germany's Past As Well As His Own, Dies At 87
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“Chcę być księciem pokoju, ale zbrojnym.”
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“Na właściwym balu artystów balowali mieszczanie, którzy raz w roku chcieli szastać pieniędzmi, żyć i bawić się jak artyści.”
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“Także złe książki są książkami i dlatego są święte.”
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“Amerykanie tak jak u siebie wprowadzają u nas tak zwany system fordowski: co roku ludzi na bruk wyrzucać i potem takich bez kwalifikacji za psi grosz brać.”
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“I co tutaj znaczy „nielegalnie”, skoro z grubsza wszystko, co się dzieje, tak czy siak urąga prawu.”
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“Aanhaling(en): Schrijver Günter Grass overleden, NOS, 13 april 2015.”
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“Dla mnie jako sprzedawcy płyt jasne było, że nie wolno nam stawiać na ekskluzywność, bo liczy się tylko masa.”
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“Die Liebe kennt keine Tageszeiten, und die Hoffnung ist ohne Ende, und der Glaube kennt keine Grenzen, nur das Wissen und das Nichtwissen sind an Zeiten und Grenzen gebunden. (niem.)”
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“Es gibt keinen Paulus, der Mann hieß Saulus und war ein Saulus und erzählte als Saulus den Leuten aus Korinth etwas von ungeheuer preiswerten Würsten, die er Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung nannte, als leicht verdaulich pries, die er heute noch, in immer wechselnder Saulusgestalt an den Mann bringt. (niem.)”
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“Oskar (…) wie przecież z doświadczenia, że dzieci gardzą zbiorami ojców, że i jego syn Kurt, gdy obejmie dziedzictwo, będzie w najlepszym razie gwizdał na te wszystkie nieszczęsne bębenki.”
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“Pogrzeby przypominają zawsze o innych pogrzebach.”
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“Doch wie jedermann halte ich mir an Tagen (…) meine Unwissenheit zugute, die damals in Mode kam und noch heute manchem als flottes Hütchen zu Gesicht steht. (niem.)”
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“Kaszubów nie można przenieść nigdzie, oni zawsze muszą być tutaj i nadstawiać głowy, żeby inni mogli uderzyć, bo my za mało polscy jesteśmy i za mało niemieccy, bo jak ktoś jest Kaszubą, nie wystarcza to ani Niemcom, ani Polakom.”
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“Doszedłem do potwierdzonego później przekonania: gdy Poczta Polska i cała równinna Polska znajdowały się pod ostrzałem, Home Fleet, lepiej czy gorzej ubezpieczona, zaszyła się w jednym z fiordów północnej Szkocji; wielka armia Francji siedziała jeszcze przy obiedzie i uważała, że paru akcjami patroli rozpoznawczych na przedpolu linii Maginota wypełnia polsko-francuski układ gwarancyjny.”
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“Was ging mich Polen an! Was war das, Polen? Die hatten doch ihre Kavallerie! Sollten sie reiten! (niem.)”
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“Ein ganzes leichtgläubiges Volk glaubte an den Weihnachtsmann. Aber der Weihnachtsmann war in Wirklichkeit der Gasmann. (niem.)”
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“Polen noch nicht verloren, dann bald verloren und schließlich, nach den berühmten achtzehn Tagen, war Polen verloren, wenn sich auch bald darauf herausstellte, daß Polen immer noch nicht verloren war, wie ja auch heute, schlesischen und ostpreußischen Landsmannschaften zum Trotz, Polen noch nicht verloren ist. (niem.)”
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“Póki człowiek ma nadzieję, będzie wciąż zaczynał od nowa pełne nadziei kończenie.”
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“Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.”
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2012· 7 entries
World Socialist Web Site: Günter Grass and the Waffen SS
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The Forward: What Gunter Grass Really Said
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Wall Street Journal: Gunter Grass's Tin Ear
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Egypt Independent: Gunter Grass’ poem on Israel: Freeing many from silence?
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World Socialist Web Site: Defend Günter Grass!
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The Forward: Gunter Grass: Israel Is the Problem
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Grass received the European of the Year award from the European Movement Denmark (Europabevægelsen), honoring his political debates in European affairs
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2010· 2 entries
“Intervista di Andrea Tarquini, repubblica.it, 4 marzo 2010.”
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“In April 2010 when there was a mushroom cloud over Europe he was in Istanbul and stayed more than he planned. We went to restaurants and drank and drank and talked and talked ... A generous, curious and a very warm friend who also wanted to be a painter at first!”
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2009· 2 entries
NPR: Gunter Grass: The Political Years
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“[Günter Grass, Il tamburo di latta, traduzione di Bruna Bianchi, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2009. ISBN 88-07-72078-7]”
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Ernst-Toller-Preis (2007).
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Grass published an account of his wartime experience in The New Yorker, including an attempt to "string together the circumstances that probably triggered and nourished [his] decision to enlist
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“[Su Arno Schmidt] Io non conosco alcuno scrittore che abbia ascoltato la pioggia in questo modo, che abbia concesso così spesso repliche al vento e assegnato alle nuvole nomi di famiglia tanto letterari. (citato in Cronologia, a cura di Domenico Pinto, in Arno Schmidt, Brand's Haide, Lavieri, 2007, p. 111)”
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2006· 4 entries
The Nation: The Strange Silence of Günter Grass
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Awarded Brückepreis (2006).
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Grass published the first volume in a trilogy of autobiographic memoirs
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“It happened as it did to many of my age. We were in the labour service and all at once, a year later, the call-up notice lay on the table. And only when I got to Dresden did I learn it was the Waffen-SS.”
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Hans Christian Andersen Award (2005).
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Awarded Eckart Witzigmann Prize (2005).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin (2005).
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2004· 6 entries
“Sia detto subito: ero uno di quei neonati dall'udito fino il cui sviluppo intellettuale è già concluso con la nascita e in seguito non fa che confermarsi. (2004, p. 41)”
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“Gesù," dissi raccogliendo tutti gli ultimi brandelli di voce, "non erano questi i nostri patti. Ridammi subito il mio tamburo. Tu hai la tua croce, e dovrebbe bastarti!" (2004, p. 353)”
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“Costi quel che costi: Oskar sorrideva. Dolorosamente sì, ma sorrideva, e sotto accavallò le gambe dei pantaloni, sopra incrociò le braccia, dondolò un minuscolo stivaletto nero a stringhe misura trentacinque, e delibò la superiorità dell'abbandonato. (2004, p. 445)”
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“Uno continua a star seduto così, su una panchina del parco, finché diventa lui stesso di legno e bisognoso di comunicare. (2004, p. 453)”
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“Vidi la luce di questo mondo sotto forma di due lampadine da sessanta watt. Perciò ancor oggi le parole della Bibbia "Sia fatta luce, e luce fu" mi sembrano il miglior slogan pubblicitario della ditta Osram. (2004, pp. 40-41)”
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“Non lo nego: sono ricoverato in un manicomio; il mio infermiere mi osserva di continuo, quasi non mi toglie gli occhi di dosso perché nella porta c'è uno spioncino, e lo sguardo del mio infermiere non può penetrarmi poiché lui ha gli occhi bruni, mentre i miei sono celesti.Il mio infermiere non può dunque essermi nemico. (2004, p. 9)”
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Lübeck (2003).
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“The Boys' Crusade (2003), Paul Fussell, pg xv ISBN 0-679-64088-6”
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“Siegen macht gelegentlich dumm." - Im Interview: "Siegen macht dumm". In: DER SPIEGEL 35/2003 vom 25. August 2003 DER SPIEGEL”
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2002· 1 entry
Grass returned to the forefront of world literature with Crabwalk (Im Krebsgang)
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2001· 2 entries
“Die CIA war im Grunde, in ihrer Praxis auch eine terroristische Vereinigung, auch mit Mordanschlägen auf Politiker. Das muss man sehen, und es macht keinen Sinn, nur mit den Fingern auf andere zu weisen." - Im Interview: "Amerikanische Politik muss Gegenstand der Kritik bleiben". In: DER SPIEGEL, 10. Oktober 2001”
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Grass proposed the creation of a German-Polish museum for art lost to other countries during the War
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year (2000).
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1999· 9 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history.
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (1999).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1999).
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“Entsetzt sehen wir, dass der Kapitalismus, seitdem sein Bruder, der Sozialismus, für tot erklärt wurde, vom Größenwahn bewegt ist und sich ungehemmt auszutoben begonnen hat." - Nobelvorlesung 1999, zitiert nach nobelprize.org”
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The Swedish Academy awarded Grass the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"
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The Nobel Committee stated that the publication of The Tin Drum "was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction"
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Was awarded the highest literary honour: the Nobel Prize in Literature
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“deutscher Schriftsteller, Grafiker, Bildhauer und Nobelpreisträger für Literatur 1999”
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“Bron: Het Nobelprijscomité over het werk van Grass bij het toekennen van de Nobelprijs in 1999.”
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Fritz Bauer Prize (1998).
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1996· 5 entries
Awarded Thomas Mann Prize (1996).
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Awarded Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize (1996).
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Awarded Hans Fallada Prize (1996).
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Awarded Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize (1996).
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Awarded Sonning Prize (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Hermann Kesten Prize (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (1994).
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1993· 3 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Gdańsk (1993).
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Gdańsk (1993).
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“[citato in Fruttero & Lucentini, Íncipit, Mondadori, 1993]”
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Grinzane Cavour Prize (1992).
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Received the Hidalgo Prize, awarded by the National Association of Spain "Presencia Gitana", in recognition of his defense of the Romani People
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
“Das Schreiben ist eine schreckliche Tortur - schlimmer nur sind Dichterlesungen vor Frauenkränzchen." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12. Oktober 1989”
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg) (1988).
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1985· 1 entry
Because it contained graves of Waffen-SS soldiers
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Married Ute Grunert, an organist, to whom he was married up until his death
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1976).
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1972· 3 entries
“Bir Salyangoz Günlüğü, Durağan ve İlerleme üzerine (1972)”
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“On Stasis and Progress"' in Diary of a Snail (1972)”
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And he began a relationship with Veronika Schröter, with whom he had a daughter, Helene (1974)
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Theodor Heuss Award (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Fontane-Preis (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Won Carl von Ossietzky Medal (1967).
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1965· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Kenyon College (1965).
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Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1965).
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Grass received the Georg Büchner Prize; in 1993 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature In 1995, he received the Hermann Kesten Prize
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1961· 2 entries
By Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), a novella, and in 1963 by the novel Dog Years (Hundejahre)
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Publicly objected to the erection of the Berlin Wall
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded German Critics' Prize for Literature (1960).
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Awarded German Critics' Prize (1960).
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1959· 3 entries
“Teneke Trampet, Kitap 1, "Rasputin ve Alfabe" (1959)”
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“The Tin Drum Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet" (1959), as translated by Ralph Manheim (1961)”
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(and adapted as a film of the same name by director Volker Schlöndorff in 1979)
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Berlin University of the Arts (1953–1956).
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1954· 1 entry
Grass married Anna Margareta Schwarz, a Swiss dancer, which ended in divorce in 1978
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1953· 1 entry
Moved to West Berlin and studied at the Berlin University of the Arts
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1948–1952).
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1945· 1 entry
“I was a naive 17-year-old, who had believed in the ultimate victory right to the end ... it was not the hour of liberation; rather, I was beset by the empty feeling of humiliation following total defeat.”
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1943· 1 entry
At age 16, he became a Luftwaffenhelfer (Air Force "helper")
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1942· 1 entry
At age 15, Grass had been conscripted into the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service)
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-10-16.
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