Günter Grass
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Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Grass in 1982
Grass's childhood home in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) in 2010
Danzig Krantor waterfront (postcard, c. 1900)
Grass in 1986
The Tin Drum (film)
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The Tin Drum is a 1979 anti-war film adapted from Günter Grass's 1959 novel, directed by Volker Schlöndorff from a screenplay co-written by Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Franz Seitz. It stars
Günter Grass
…have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded Grass the Nobel Prize…
Original German film poster
Heidelberg, 1979: Outside a cinema showing the film