"mentality of his family and neighborhood."" The Tin Drum The Tin Drum () is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's """" (Danzig Trilogy). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the Palme d'Or, in the same year, and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year. The story revolves around the life of Oskar Matzerath, as narrated by himself when confined in a mental hospital during the years 1952–1954. Born in 1924 in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), with an adult's capacity for"
"returned to the Danzig of his childhood. Grass is best known for his first novel, ""The Tin Drum"" (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being ""Cat and Mouse"" and ""Dog Years"". His works are frequently considered to 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 leading authors of Germany, and also set a high bar of comparison for all of his subsequent works, which were often compared unfavorably to this early work by critics. Nonetheless, in the West Germany of the late '50s and early '60s the book could be controversial, and its ""immorality"" prompted the city of Bremen to revoke a prize it had bestowed upon him. When Grass received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1999 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"
"Volker Schlöndorff Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939) is a German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for ""The Tin Drum"" (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden, Germany to the physician Dr. Georg Schlöndorff. In"
"from the 1950s to the 1970s, and caused some political controversies because of his increasingly critical view on society. The Frankfurt Book Fair (and its Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) soon developed into a regarded institution. Exemplary for West Germany's literature are – among others – Siegfried Lenz (with ""The German Lesson"") and Günter Grass (with ""The Tin Drum"" and ""The Flounder""). During the 40 years of separation some divergence occurred in the cultural life of the two parts of the severed nation. Both West Germany and East Germany followed along traditional paths of the common German culture,"
"The Tin Drum (film) The Tin Drum () is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff. It was mostly shot in West Germany. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980 at the 52nd Academy Awards. In 1899, Joseph Kolaizcek, the grandfather of Oskar Matzerath, the main character, is being pursued by the police through rural Kashubia (located in modern-day Poland). He hides underneath the skirts of a young woman"
"from Central Poland and 26,629 from Soviet-annexed Eastern Poland took their place. Historical Danzig forms the setting for several major works of Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass, including his acclaimed Danzig Trilogy novels ""The Tin Drum"", ""Cat and Mouse"" and ""Dog Years"", as well as in his memoirs. Grass grew up in the Danzig suburb of Langfuhr (now Wrzeszcz). Free City of Danzig The Free City of Danzig (; ) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now , Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding"
"Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the ""Waffen-SS"" and was taken prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently"
"Mario Adorf Mario Adorf (born 8 September 1930) is a German actor who has played leading roles in numerous films, among them the 1979 film ""The Tin Drum"". Additionally, he is the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books. Adorf was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the illegitimate child of an Italian surgeon and a German medical assistant. He grew up in his maternal grandfather's hometown, Mayen, where he was raised by his unmarried mother. He rose to fame in Europe, and particularly Germany, and also made appearances in international films, including ""Ten Little Indians"" and ""Smilla's Sense of Snow"". He"
"film was the most successful and ambitious of his career, and perhaps the most important film of post-war Germany: ""The Tin Drum"", released in 1979. The film was based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass, who for years had rejected proposed adaptations of his book until giving Schlöndorff his approval (and assistance) to make the film. ""The Tin Drum"" stars David Bennent as the protagonist Oscar Matzerath, who, after receiving a tin drum on his third birthday, makes the conscious choice to stop growing and remain a three-year-old for the rest of his life. He hurls himself"
"role of General Mapache in Sam Peckinpah's ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969), because he felt the character was too violent. In 1996, he provided the German dubbing voice for the character Draco in ""Dragonheart"", a role performed by Sean Connery. Among many others: Mario Adorf Mario Adorf (born 8 September 1930) is a German actor who has played leading roles in numerous films, among them the 1979 film ""The Tin Drum"". Additionally, he is the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books. Adorf was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the illegitimate child of an Italian surgeon and a German medical assistant. He"
"is terrifically affecting."" Gary Arnold of ""The Washington Post"" wrote that it ""will be hard to beat as the season's most prestigious bad idea for a movie,"" stating that Oskar ""doesn't have a personality forceful enough to unify the rambling continuity or replace the narrative voice and complex of meanings that gave the book intellectual vitality and authority."" At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, it was jointly awarded the Palme d'Or, along with ""Apocalypse Now"". ""The Tin Drum"" was the first film directed by a German to win the Palme d'Or. In 1980, it became the first film from Germany"
"and in 1963 by the novel ""Dog Years"" (German: ""Hundejahre""). The books are collectively called the Danzig Trilogy and focus on the rise of Nazism and how World War II affected Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), which was separated from Germany after World War I and became the Free City of Danzig (German: ""Freie Stadt Danzig""). ""Dog Years"" is considered a sequel of sorts to ""The Tin Drum"", as it features some of the same characters. It portrays the area's mixed ethnicities and complex historical background in lyrical prose that is highly evocative. ""The Tin Drum"" established Grass as one of"
"novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations ""The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum"" (1975) (by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta) and ""The Tin Drum"" (1979) (by Schlöndorff alone) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The New German Cinema also allowed for female directors to come to the fore and for the development of a feminist cinema which encompassed the works of directors such as Margarethe von Trotta, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander and Cristina Perincioli. German production companies have been quite commonly involved in"
"important works by European writers such as ""The Tin Drum"" by Günter Grass, who would later receive a Nobel Prize for his work; ""Madness and Civilization"" by Michel Foucault, ""The Lover"" by Marguerite Duras, and ""Adieux"" by Simone de Beauvoir. By the late 1960s, Pantheon started to bring American writers such as Noam Chomsky, James Loewen and Studs Terkel to European readers. In 1965, RCA bought Random House. Throughout the 1970s, Pantheon continued to publish intellectual and often leftist works of fiction and nonfiction ""without a profit-and-loss sheet in sight"". In other words, Pantheon editors prided themselves on subsidizing the"
"the atrocities. These are the questions at the heart of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses die and living memory fades. Schlink's book was well received in his native country and elsewhere, winning several awards. ""Der Spiegel"" wrote that it was one of the greatest triumphs of German literature since Günter Grass's ""The Tin Drum"". It sold 500,000 copies in Germany and was listed 14th of the 100 favorite books of German readers in a television poll in 2007. It won the German Hans Fallada Prize in 1998, and became the"
"were German President Joachim Gauck, federal Commissioner for Culture Monika Grütters, and Paweł Adamowicz, mayor of Gdańsk. Grütters, in remarks to mourners, noted that Grass through his work championed the independence of artists and of art itself. Adamowicz said Grass had ""bridged the chasm between Germany and Poland,"" and praised the novelist's ""unwillingness to compromise."" Collections in English translation Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig"
"or at the local fairground (""Rummelplatz"") and with little interest in politics. In 2007 the novel was published and nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. An English translation by Samuel P. Willcocks was published in 2015 by Seagull Books, an imprint of the University of Chicago Press. Werner Bräunig Werner Bräunig (May 12, 1934 - August 14, 1976) was a German author. He is best known for his posthumously published novel ""Rummelplatz"" (German for """"Fairground""""). The novel was to be part of a Communist Party campaign to establish a new kind of working class literature by encouraging talented labourers"
"in 1991 after German reunification. He received the War Blind Prize for radio plays in 1979, the Berlin Literature Prize in 1993, and the Bremen Literature Prize in 1995. He had studied German, philosophy, and literature in Heidelberg and at Harvard. His dissertation at Harvard in 1960 was titled ""Utopie und Roman; Untersuchungen zur Form des deutschen utopischen Romans im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert."", about utopian novels in the 20th century. He was a member of the PEN-Zentrum in Germany, the Germany Academy of Art (Deutsche Akademie der darstellenden Künste). He was ""Poet in Residence"" at the University of Essen in German"
"The Box (Grass book) The Box () is a 2008 fictionalised autobiography by the German writer Günter Grass. It has the subtitle ""Tales from the Darkroom"" (""Dunkelkammergeschichten""). In the narrative, the 80-year-old Grass' eight children, at their father's request, record conversations where they say what they think of him. ""The Box"" follows the writer's previous memoir book, ""Peeling the Onion"" from 2006, which ended in 1959 with the literary success of ""The Tin Drum"". It was followed by ""Grimm's Words"" in 2010. Miranda Seymour of ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote that """"The Box"" is not a wholly successful work. Capricious Mariechen"
"Christoph Simon Christoph Simon (born 1972, Emmental, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. After travelling in the Middle East, Poland, South America, London and New York, he settled in Berne. His first novel, ""Franz, or Why Antelopes Run in Herds"" (2001) has sold over 10,000 copies, while ""Planet Obrist"" (2005) was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. ""Zbinden’s Progress"" is his fourth novel and was translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2012. Christoph Simon attended high school in Thun and the Jazz School in Bern. Later he traveled to Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Poland, South America, London and"
"like Günter Grass, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 and actor Hardy Krüger. In the post-war years HIAG exercised some political influence in West Germany, and made attempts to appeal to the main stream parties, but this changed in the 1960s when the veteran organisation, having achieved its aim, shifted to extreme right-wing politics. HIAG itself greatly exaggerated its influence and, at no point, represented more than eight percent of all the ""Waffen-SS"" veterans in West Germany. A historical review in Germany of the impact of ""Waffen-SS"" veterans in post-war German society continues, and a number of"
"served in the German army), resulted in three volumes of poetry on the subject published over the next 32 years. He has been awarded NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other prizes. Prior to the publication of his first collection, a privately printed ephemeral edition of the poem ""The Mower,"" including several drafts, was printed in softcover. The final version of ""The Mower"" appeared in his first collection, ""Depth of Field"" (1970). Other collections are ""Noise in the Trees"" (1974), ""The Swastika Poems"" (1977), ""Long Island Light"" (1979), ""Erika: Poems of the Holocaust"" (1984), ""Pterodactyl"
"the worldwide association of writers and the oldest human rights organisation, between 1971–1973. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, and he remains one of Germany's most widely read authors. His best-known works are ""Billiards at Half-past Nine"" (1959), ""And Never Said a Word"" (1953), ""The Bread of Those Early Years"" (1955), ""The Clown"" (1963), ""Group Portrait with Lady"" (1971), ""The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum"" (1974), and ""The Safety Net"" (1979). Despite the variety of themes and content in his work, there are certain recurring patterns: many of his novels and stories describe intimate and personal"
"My Century My Century (German: ""Mein Jahrhundert"", 1999) is a novel written by German author Günter Grass. Having published many significant novels in the postwar period, he was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Each chapter in ""My Century"" is only a few pages long. Each focuses on a single year from 1900-1999. The story of each year is told differently, expressed by changes in time, place, narrator and literary style. While acknowledging Grass' talents and works, Peter Gay of ""The New York Times"" said of this book: Grass's intentions are obvious: he was trying to construct a mosaic"
"her, Helene (1974). He also had a child with Ingrid Kruger, Nele (1979). In 1979 he married Ute Grunert, an organist, to whom he was still married at his death. He had two stepsons from his second marriage, Malte and Hans. He had 18 grandchildren at his death. Grass was a fan of Bundesliga Club SC Freiburg. Grass's best-known work is ""The Tin Drum"" (German: ""Die Blechtrommel""), published in 1959 (and adapted as a film of the same name by director Volker Schlöndorff in 1979). It was followed in 1961 by ""Cat and Mouse"" (German: ""Katz und Maus""), a novella,"
"New York. He broke off his studies in Basel in 1997 and began to write, while doing various temporary jobs (post office, bank). He now lives as a freelance writer in Bern. Christoph Simon Christoph Simon (born 1972, Emmental, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. After travelling in the Middle East, Poland, South America, London and New York, he settled in Berne. His first novel, ""Franz, or Why Antelopes Run in Herds"" (2001) has sold over 10,000 copies, while ""Planet Obrist"" (2005) was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. ""Zbinden’s Progress"" is his fourth novel and was translated into English and"
"of Huahine (part of the Society Islands) is the bridge across a stream hosting 3- to 6-ft-long eels, deemed sacred by local culture. Eel fishing in Nazi-time Danzig plays an important role in Günter Grass' novel ""The Tin Drum"". The cruelty of humans to eels is used as a metaphor for Nazi atrocities, and the sight of eels being killed by a fisherman triggers the madness of the protagonist's mother. Sinister implications of eels fishing are also referenced in Jo Nesbø's ""The Cockroaches"", the second book of the Harry Hole detective series. The book's background includes a Norwegian village where"
"Die Stadt hinter dem Strom Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (The city beyond the river) is a German language existentialist novel by Hermann Kasack, published in 1947 in Berlin. It is considered one of the most important novels written in Germany after World War II, dealing with the horrors of Nazi Germany, along with works such as Thomas Mann's ""Doctor Faustus"" and Günter Grass' ""The Tin Drum"". Hermann Kasack described a ""Schreckensvision"" (horror vision) initiating the writing of the novel: ""'Ich sah die Flächen einer gespenstischen Ruinenstadt, die sich ins Unendliche verlor und in der sich die Menschen wie Scharen"
"II, from a German perspective, are dealt with by Günter Grass' ""The Tin Drum"" (1959) and an American by Joseph Heller's ""Catch-22"" (1961). The subsequent Cold War influenced popular spy novels. Latin American self-awareness in the wake of the (failing) left revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a ""Latin American Boom"", linked to with the names of novelists Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, along with the invention of a special brand of postmodern magic realism. Another major 20th-century social events, the so-called sexual revolution is reflected in the modern novel. D.H. Lawrence's"
"(2004), and ""Der Baader Meinhof Komplex"" (2008) have enjoyed international success. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film went to the German production ""Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)"" in 1979, to ""Nowhere in Africa"" in 2002, and to ""Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)"" in 2007. Among the most famous German actors are Marlene Dietrich, Klaus Kinski, Hanna Schygulla, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann, Til Schweiger and Daniel Brühl. The Berlin Film Festival, held annually since 1951, is one of the world's foremost film festivals. An international jury places emphasis on representing films from all over"
"the purposes of improving it. Zillig’s first fiction was science fiction, in 1978. Later works follow the style of Thomas Mann (‘’Der neue Duft’’ [the new fragrance]) and David Lodge (‘’Die Festschrift’’). He is the winner of the 1990 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, for ""Siebzehn Sätze"". Werner Zillig Werner Zillig (born October 22, 1949 in Haßlach, Germany) is a German author and scholar. Werner Zillig studied at universities in Erlangen, Tübingen and Münster, obtaining his doctorate from Münster in 1981 with a linguistic study on speech acts. He then taught German linguistics at the same school. From 1996 through 2002, he lived in"
"200 novels, poems, plays and films, almost all in German. A film of his life was produced in East Germany in 1956, directed by Martin Heilberg and starring Wolfgang Stumpf. In 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Peasants' War Panorama at Bad Frankenhausen was opened, containing the largest oil painting in the world, with Müntzer in central position. The painter was Werner Tübke. Very little is known about Müntzer's wife Ottilie von Gersen other than the fact that she was a nun who had left a nunnery under the influence of the Reformation movement. Her family"