Died Nobel laureate for literature Günter Grass – Independent Newspaper

 

April 13 in Lübeck at the age of 87 years died German writer Günter Grass, world famous for the novel “The Tin Drum”, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1999 with the wording “His playful and gloomy parable illuminate forgotten image of history.” Novelist was also a painter and sculptor. In recent years, Grasse bothered diseases associated with aging, and in January 2013th he announced that he stops writing books and give himself to painting.

  
 

Günter Grass was born in Danzig. In the 15 years he served in the Waffen SS, and participated in a battle with Soviet troops. After the war, he studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Berlin. 1950 marked the beginning of literary pursuits. In 1959 he published the novel “The Tin Drum”, which gave Grasse real historical events in the surreal manner with elements of the grotesque. Was most famous film adaptation of the novel by Volker Schlöndorff: the film won the “Golden Bough” Cannes Film Festival and the “Oscar” for best foreign film.

  
 

All my life Grass actively participated in the literary and political life, has created many essays and articles, poems and plays. The novel “Under local anesthesia,” said the student movement of fanaticism and moderation “parents”, the book “From the Diary of a snail” – the synthesis of the autobiographical story of the election campaign in the history of the Social Democratic Party and Herman Ott, who was convicted under the Nazis. Peru Grass belong novels “Flounder”, “Meeting at Telgte”, “Fictions”, “Krysiha” and others.

  
 

Creative writing Grass frankness often caused public scandals. The novel “Cat and Mouse” tried to blame the immoral content of the behind the scenes of masturbation. In 2006, a scandal in connection with the moral image of Grasse in post-war Germany: the writer admitted that in his youth in the ranks of the SS, saying, however, that during the service did not commit war crimes. In the same year came the memoirs of Grass “Bulb memory,” in which, as in other things the author’s reality mixed with phantasmagoria. Later they continued the book “camera. Stories from the dark room “and” On the way from Germany to Germany. ” In 2010 came the last novel Günter Grass “Words Grimm” about the life of fellow storytellers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm.

  
 

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