Gunter Grass (Günter Grass) was born October 16, 1927 in the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). His parents (his father – a German mother – kashubka of West Slavic ethnic group living in the north of Poland) engaged in trade. In 15 years, Gunther, like most of their peers, was a member of the youth paramilitary organization of the Nazi Hitler Youth. In October 1944, he was enrolled in the armored division “Waffen SS”.
In April 1945, Grass was wounded, hit the US prison camp.
Freed in 1946, he remained in West Germany. In 1947 he received the profession of stonemason in Dusseldorf.
Since 1948, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, in the years 1953-1956 – the Berlin High School of Fine Arts.
In 1956, began to exhibit his graphic and sculptural works, while engaged in literature. In the same year came the first collection of his poems, “The benefits of hounds chickens”.
On the advice of the West German writers of the “Group of 47″, of which he was, Grass tried his hand at fiction. In 1959 was published his first novel “The Tin Drum”, which won a great success with critics and readers. In 1979, the novel was made into a movie directed by Volker Schlöndorff and won the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival “Palme d’Or” and “Oscar”.
In 1960 came the novels Grass “Cat and Mouse” (1961) and “Dog Years” (1965) and “Under local anesthesia” (1969).
In 1970 the works were written, “From the Diary of a snail” (1972), “Flounder” (1977) “Meeting in Telgte” (1979).
In 1980 the writer published a novel, “Fictions” (1982), “Rat” (1985). In 1999, his novel “My Century”, in 2002 – “Crabwalk” in 2006 – a novel memoir “Bulb memory”.
At the end of the 2000s came the product “Camera” (2008 ) and “On the way from Germany to Germany” (2009).
In 2010, he published a new book by Günter Grass “Words Grimm. Declaration of Love”, where the writer tells the story of the Brothers Grimm in their own unique manner declaration of love to the German language.
Peru Grass author of numerous essays and articles, numerous poems and a number of dramatic works.
In 2005, Grass was founded a literary circle “Lübeck literary meetings.”
In addition to writing Gunter Grass took an active part in German politics. In 1960 he participated in the election campaigns of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). On the eve of the 1969 elections, Grass organized several meetings in support of the future German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
In 1982, Grass joined the SPD. In 1990 he opposed the reunification of Germany (FRG and GDR) – he believed that a united Germany could be reborn as a militant state.
In 1992, the writer distanced himself from the SPD, which has agreed to amend the constitution to limit the granting of rights to refuge. In 1993, he joined the coalition of the future German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. In 2005, due to the failure of German Chancellor Schroeder to take part in the war in Iraq Gunter Grass offered to nominate the prime minister candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2005, a writer in the group of wealthy Germans, led by Hamburg shipowner Peter Kremer offered in an open letter to the chairman of the CDU, Angela Merkel and SPD leader Franz Müntefering to increase taxes on the rich.
In 2006, in his autobiography, Grass admitted that at the age of 17 years at the end of the Second World War was a member of “Vaffen- SS “. He said he had not committed war crimes and did not make a single shot. His confession led to a sharp wave of criticism.
In April 2012, Günter Grass published in several European newspapers poem “What must be said”, in which he criticized Israel’s policies toward Iran, as well as the planned delivery of submarines from Germany in Israel. The publication caused a great wave of criticism, as a result of Israel forbade the writer to enter the country, and in Germany politicians and media accused Grass of anti-Semitism.
In January 2014 the writer announced his retirement. The last time he devoted to writing, painting with watercolors.
April 13, 2015 Günter Grass died on the 88th year of life in Lübeck, Germany.
The creative activity of the writer was awarded many awards. Among them Award “Group 47″ (1958) Critics Award (1960, Germany), Award of foreign books (1962, France), Büchner Prize (1965), Award Fontana (1965), Gaisa Award (1969), Mondello Prize (1977 ), Viareggio Prize-Versilia (1978), Feltrinelli Prize (1982) and others. In 1999, the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The material is based on information RIA Novosti and open source
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