Gunter Grass died © Der Spiegel 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.