Today died Günter Grass is dead

Nobel laureate Günter Grass died in Lübeck today

04/13/2015

Nobel laureate and writer Günter Grass died today at the age of 87. About the cause of death, there is no information. The death was confirmed by the Steidl publishing house. His books have been translated into numerous languages. In 1999 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Günter Grass died
At the age of 87, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Günter Grass died in a Lübeck clinic this morning. Günter Grass was born on 16 October 1927 in Gdansk as the son of a merchant family. He studied sculpture, first at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, then at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin. From 1955 he took part regularly in the meetings of the group 47. In 1956 he published his first book, the poetry book Die Vorzüge der Windhühner. With the novel The Tin Drum he became famous in 1959: In addition to other great novels (dog years, locally stunned, The Butt, The Rat and a wide field) created poetry books (Gleisdreieck, Asked, Last dances, etc.), short prose, drama, essays, short stories (Cat and mouse, In crabwalk), Narratives (Meeting in Telgte, Overtalking, From the Diary of a Snail, Heading or the Germans Die Out and My Century) as well as autobiographical works (When Skinning the Onion, The Box, Grimm's Words).

In addition, Grass worked as a draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor, many books with his pictorial work have been published since 1986. In 1993, the Steidl Verlag takes over the world rights to the work of Günter Grass. The author himself has read in large parts of his literary work for audiobook editions. Out of the many awards that Grass has received, the Nobel Prize for Literature stands out in 1999. Günter Grass lived until his death in Behlendorf in the district Duchy of Lauenburg near the county seat Ratzeburg and about 25 kilometers south of Lübeck. He leaves a wife.

Image: Gerhard Steidl, Steidl Verlag