The life of the writer Günter Grass was marked by several controversies about the past in Germany, making it the German writer of the second half of the twentieth century best known abroad. Grass publisher in Germany, Steidl, announced that the writer died today in a clinical Lübeck, Germany
Born on October 16, 1927, in the former Danzig -. The current Gdansk Poland, which holds the honorary citizenship -. studied in that city until the age of 16 and ended up enlisting in the Hitler youth
After being wounded and detained in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and released the following year, he returned to study Arts, settling in Paris as a sculptor and writer. And, in 1956, published his first book, The Tin Drum , which achieved worldwide success.
The book was later made into a movie by director Volker Schloendorff, who received a Palma Gold at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
In much of his work, Günter Grass confronted Germany with its Nazi past, critics say, led by the evil conscience that would be assumed in the autobiographical book The Peel onion – released in 2006, and edited in Portugal the following year – which turned out to have belonged to the Waffen SS, the elite troops of Hitler, after the age of 17 , have been listed by force.
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