Gunter Grass died

Today, April 13, at the age of 87, a German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize, Gunter Grass, died in Lubeck.

It is reported by Die Welt with reference to the Steidl Publishing House.

Gunter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig, during the war he was drafted into the army, was wounded, until 1946 he was in American captivity. After the war, he studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts in Dusseldorf and at the Higher School of Fine Arts in West Berlin.

In 1956–57, Grass began to expose his sculptural and graphic works, at the same time he began to write stories, poems and plays that he himself attributed to the theater of the absurd.

In 1959, the first Roman Grasse was released “Tin drum”, which brought the writer world fame. In 1979, the novel was filmed by Folker Schlendorf, the film received the Oscar and the Golden Palm Branch of the Cannes Festival. Together with the novels “Cats Mouse” (1961) and “Dog years” (1963) “Tin drum” forms the “Danzig Trilogy”, which takes place in Danzig between world wars and during the Second World War.

Gunter Grass wrote dozens of books - novels, stories and essays, in recent years he worked on a cycle of memories. In 1999, the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "For the fact that his playful and gloomy parables illuminated a forgotten image of history."

In 2006, Grass admitted that he was in Waffen-SS, which caused a scandal in Germany. The writer then stated that during the service in Waffen-C, he did not commit war crimes and did not take a single shot.

In 2012, Israel declared a grassone by Persona Non Grat for a poem entitled “What should be said”, in which he called Israel the threat of “the already fragile world”.