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Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas]; 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 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 Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".

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Ildevarsler

Ildevarsler er i allegorisk form den berømte tyske forfatter Günter Grass’ kommentar til de omvæltninger i Europa, der fandt sted i årene omkring murens fald i 1989. Den tyske udgave kom i maj 1992.

I romanen mødes en polsk enke og en tysk enkemand. Han er professor i kunsthistorie, og hun er konservator med speciale i forgyldning. Deres møde udvikler sig til en kærlighedshistorie og til grundlæggelsen af et tysk-polsk Kirkegårdsselskab. Selskabet arbejder for at begrave tyskere, der tidligere er fordrevet og flygtet fra Danzig, i deres hjemstavns jord. Men efterhånden udarter hele projektet til business, pengene tager magten, og den smukke idé om tysk-polsk forsoning ender som en farce.

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Publish date16 Oct 2017
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ISBN epub9788702253573