Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda?sk, Poland) on October 16, 1927. His parents had a grocery store in Danzig Langfuhr.

Comments on World War II

:My literary and political work was mostly involved with this German guilt. But in all these years I have had the feeling that we should also speak about our own victims. (Gunter Grass talks to Tom Rosenthal about being in Dresden after the bombing)

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:We did begin this, we Germans, with Coventry and Liverpool and London, but Dresden was also a crime. There was no military reason to bomb the city. (ibid.)

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Bibliography

• Danziger Trilogie
• Die Blechtrommel (1959)
• Katz und Maus (1961)
• Hundejahre (1963)
• Örtlich betäubt (1969)
• Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke (1972)
• Der Butt (1979)
• Das Treffen in Telgte (1979)
• Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus (1980)
• Die Rättin (1986)
• Zunge zeigen. Ein Tagebuch in Zeichnungen (1988)
• Unkenrufe (1992)
• Ein weites Feld (1995)
• Mein Jahrhundert (1999)
• Im Krebsgang (2002)
• Letzte Tänze (2003)

English translations

• The Danzig Trilogy
• The Tin Drum (1959)
• Cat and Mouse (1963)
• Dog Years (1965)
• Four Plays (1967)
• Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969)
• Local Anaesthetic (1970)
• From the Diary of a Snail (1973)
• In the Egg and Other Poems (1977)
• The Meeting at Telgte (1981)
• The Flounder (1978)
• Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out (1982)
• The Rat (1987)
• Show Your Tongue (1987)
• Two States One Nation? (1990)
• The Call of the Toad (1992)
• The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1996)
• My Century (1999)
• Crabwalk (2002)