"of a child but the ingenious maker of a world of objects reflecting the break between the creations of nature and those of men. The narrator refers to Amsel's ""keen sense of reality in all its innumerable forms."" Dog Years (novel) Dog Years (Hundejahre) is a novel by Günter Grass. It was first published in Germany in 1963. Its English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1965. It is the third and last volume of his ""Danzig Trilogy"", the other two being ""The Tin Drum"" and ""Cat and Mouse"". The novel consists of three different chronological parts, from"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"chapter of his novel ""The Tin Drum"" to. During the attacks, the German forces used ADGZ armoured cars, 75mm and 105mm artillery and flamethrowers against Polish forces armed with pistols, rifles, light machine guns and grenades. The SS-Heimwehr Danzig participated in the attack on the Danzig Westerplatte, and already was considered a part of the 3rd SS ""Totenkopf"" Division then forming under Theodor Eicke. Later, it provided coast guard services in Danzig. On 8 September members of the SS Heimwehr Danzig killed 33 Polish civilians in the village of Ksiazki. Other such militias were also involved in war crimes perpetrated"
"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"
"of Polish commanders and authorities, who allegedly did not prepare their country for war and instead wasted the blood of their soldiers. Even such prominent German writers as Günter Grass, later accused of anti-Polonism by Jan Józef Lipski among others, were falling victims to this Nazi deception. Grass wrote the following passage, somewhat metaphorically, in his famous novel ""The Tin Drum"": On 1 September 2009 Sir Simon Jenkins, writing for ""The Guardian"" newspaper's website, characterised the notion of pitting Polish cavalry against tanks as ""the most romantic and idiotic act of suicide of modern war."" On 21 September 2009, ""The"
"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"
"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"
"to his 1979 film ""The Tin Drum"", since the film only covered part of the Günter Grass novel on which it was based, but the main cast member David Bennent had grown out of the role and Schlöndorff was unwilling to recast the role. Schlöndorff decided that Tournier's novel reflected his specific interest in the war in particular. Filming began in 1995 on location in Malbork and Paris, with Ezio Frigerio as production designer, who intentionally made the sets look as if they were from a fairytale. Michael Nyman wrote the soundtrack, three years after his huge international success with"
"Željko Senečić Željko Senečić (18 January 1933 – 2 January 2018) was a Croatian film and television production designer, film director and screenwriter. Senečić studied painting at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and scenography at the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts. His career in filmmaking and production design began in the early 1960s. His most memorable films include the Palme d'Or and Academy Award-winning ""The Tin Drum"" (""Die Blechtrommel"", 1979; directed by Volker Schlöndorff and partially filmed in Zagreb, with Senečić credited as production co-designer) and classics of Croatian cinema such as ""Rondo"" (1966), ""One Song a Day Takes"
"Camilo José Cela's ""La familia de Pascual Duarte"" (1942). The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953). John A. Lee's ""Shining with the Shiner"" (1944) tells amusing tales about New Zealand folk hero Ned Slattery (1840–1927) surviving by his wits and beating the Protestant work ethic', So too is Thomas Mann's ""Confessions of Felix Krull"" (1954), which like many novels emphasizes the theme of a charmingly roguish ascent in the social order. Günter Grass's ""The Tin Drum"" (1959) is a German picaresque novel. Recent examples include ""Under the Net"" (1954) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's ""The Painted Bird"" (1965),"
"""The Tin Drum"". Besides Grass were, Peter Bichsel, Mikhail Bulgakov, Max von der Grün, Peter Härtling, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Günter Herburger, Arno Holz, Ernst Jandl, Hermann Kant, Kurt Marti, Pablo Neruda, Anna Seghers, Michael Scharang, Robert Wolfgang Schnell, Claude Simon, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jörg Steiner, Carl Sternheim, Gabriele Wohmann, Christa Wolf, William Butler Yeats and many other authors represented in the program of Luchterhand. An important part in the program had up until the 1990s licensed editions from DDR-authors. In 1993, the ""Luchterhand collection"" was sold to dtv Verlagsgesellschaft. Luchterhand has works from more than 100 writers available. Every year over twenty"
"The Ghost Drum The Ghost Drum is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Price, published by Faber in 1987, and the first book in the Ghost World trilogy (1987 to 1995). It is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and Russian folklore. Like many traditional tales it is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death. Price won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published a US edition within the calendar year, entitled ""The Ghost Drum: A Cat's Tale"". The novel is"
"music video for the song ""Instant Crush"" is said to have been inspired by ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"". The Steadfast Tin Soldier ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"" (Danish: ""Den standhaftige tinsoldat"") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. The tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838 in the first booklet of ""Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection."" The booklet consists of Andersen's ""The Daisy"" and ""The Wild Swans"". The tale was Andersen’s first not based upon a folk tale or a literary model."
"both charmingly new and hauntingly familiar"". The Ghost Drum The Ghost Drum is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Price, published by Faber in 1987, and the first book in the Ghost World trilogy (1987 to 1995). It is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and Russian folklore. Like many traditional tales it is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death. Price won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published a US edition within the calendar year, entitled ""The Ghost Drum:"
"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"
"Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, made her a star in 1975. For the role of Katharina Blum, she received the Filmband in Gold. In 1979, she won international fame as the mother of Oskar Matzerath in Schlöndorff's Oscar-winning film ""The Tin Drum"". Winkler lives with sculptor Wiegand Wittig and has four children. Angela Winkler Angela Winkler (born 22 January 1944) is a German actress. Born in Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart. Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting classes with Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. In 1967, she had her first role at"
"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. Although overlooked in early scholarship on New German Cinema, female directors were an important part of it, which encompassed the works of directors such as Danièle Huillet, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander, and von Trotta. New German Cinema New German Cinema () is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a"
"85, from complications associated with prostate cancer. Manheim was Jewish. He received the PEN Translation Prize in 1964. He received the 1970 National Book Award in the Translation category for the first U.S. edition of Céline's ""Castle to Castle"". He was awarded a 1983 MacArthur Fellowship in Literary Studies. He won the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation, in 1988. Manheim's 1961 translation of Günter Grass's ""Die Blechtrommel"" (""The Tin Drum"") was elected to fourth place among outstanding translations of the previous half century by the Translators Association of the Society"
"show a sustained concern for the marginal and marginalized subjects, such as Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf in ""The Tin Drum"" whose body was considered an aberration unworthy of life in the Nazi ideology, or with Roma and Sinti people who were also deemed impure and unworthy and subjected to eugenics and genocide. His literary style combines elements of magic realism, with a penchant for questioning and complicating questions of authorship by intermingling realistic autobiographical elements with unreliable narrators and fantastic events or happenings that creates irony or satirizes events to form social critiques. Grass's work has tended to divide the"
"beyond a political novel in the writing's stylistic plurality. There are elements of allegory, myth and legend, placing it in the genre of magic realism. ""The Tin Drum"" has religious overtones, both Jewish and Christian. Oskar holds conversations with both Jesus and Satan throughout the book. His gang members call him ""Jesus"", then he refers to himself as ""Satan"" later in the book. Initial reaction to ""The Tin Drum"" was mixed. It was called blasphemous and pornographic by some, and legal action was taken against it and Grass. However, by 1965 sentiment had cemented into public acceptance, and it soon"
"referred to as 'tiger duck'. The story has been made into a contemporary opera """"Oh, the beautiful Panama"""" by Lin Wang. The opera was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2013, and was a sold-out event. Janosch Janosch (born as Horst Eckert) (born March 11, 1931) is one of the best-known German children's book authors and illustrators. He was born in Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland) in Upper Silesia to a family of mixed German and Polish origin. He said in an interview that he is Silesian of nationality. After World War II, the family fled to West Germany. In the"
"Chin Yang Lee Chin Yang Lee or C. Y. Lee (; December 27, 1915 – November 8, 2018) was a Chinese American author best known for his 1957 novel ""The Flower Drum Song"", which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""Flower Drum Song"" and writer for his 2006 film ""10,000 Apologies"" with May Wang. Chin Yang Lee (Li Jinyang) was born 1915 into a scholarly family in Xiangtan, Hunan, China, the youngest of the eight Li brothers who all achieved national or international fame. His eldest brother, Li Jinxi, was the ""father of the Chinese phonetic alphabet"" and teacher of"
"Bang the Drum Slowly Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, first published in 1956 by Knopf. The novel is the second in a series of four novels written by Harris that chronicles the career of baseball player Henry W. Wiggen. ""Bang the Drum Slowly"" was a sequel to ""The Southpaw"" (1953), with ""A Ticket for a Seamstitch"" (1957) and ""It Looked Like For Ever"" (1979), completing the tetralogy of baseball novels by Harris. The novel was made into a 1956 ""U.S. Steel Hour"" television adaptation starring Paul Newman and a later film adaptation in 1973, with"
"""The Tin Drum"". In a prepublication interview Grass for the first time revealed that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS, and not only a ""Flakhelfer"" (anti-aircraft assistant) as he had long said. On being asked what caused the need for public confession and revelation of his past in the book he answered: ""It was a weight on me, my silence over all these years is one of the reasons I wrote the book. It had to come out in the end."" The interview and the book caused critics to accuse him of hypocrisy for having hidden this part"