Biography
The personality and creativity of the German writer Güntter Grass still causes the genuine interest of art historians, because in addition to creating prosaic works, in 1999, awarded the Nobel Prize, he became famous as an essayist and a poet. During World War II, having visited the ranks in the ranks of the Nazi division of Crygsmarine, the author took up the rethinking of history and, having entered into the ranks of the new Social Democratic Party of Germany, dedicated to this case for 70 years.Childhood and youth
The life path of Günther Wilhelma Grass began on October 16, 1927 in the city of Danzig, where he, together with his sister Valtutwood, was brought up in a multinational family.
The father, who posted a grocery bench and residential premises, was a protestant and German by origin, and the mother, a native of Polish Pomerania - Kashubia, belonged to the Catholic faith.
Without experiencing disagreements about religion, parents had their own real estate, which brought modest incomes sufficient to teach children. Günther went to the middle and older group in the Gymnasium Conradinum, and after lessons helped in the church during the Mass and other worship services.
At the beginning of World War II, the future writer was a member of the youth squad of Adolf Hitler, and upon reaching the age of 17 received documents and went to the front. In April 1945, during the battle in the ranks of the SESS tank division, the Grass received a slight injury, and shortly before the victory of the Soviet Army was captured in the city of Marienbad.
Reward in the commitment of the Nazis, in the late 1940s Grass found asylum not far from Düsseldorf, where he began to study sculptures and graphs in the Art Academy. Then, working around the waiter, raised the level of his own education and in 1956 he graduated from Berlin University of Fine Arts.
Personal life
In his youth, studying at Berlin University, the Grass took care of the device of personal life, and Anna Schwartz ballet student, who came from Switzerland, soon after acquaintance became his wife. Having played a wedding, spouses divided life between Paris and the Santa, from 1957 to 1965 four children were born in their family.When the youngest son Bruno reached 7 years of age, the writer stopped paying attention to his wife and started the novels with the artist and the teacher who gave him two daughters. A few years after the official divorce with Anna in his life there was a concert organist Uta Poot, with which he was combined with marriage and happily lived the remainder of the days.
Books
Interesting is the fact that the writer's biography of Grass began with writing poetic collections, and after the verses he created a series of libretto for ballets and plays. And only then the man started the composition of the stories and novels, and the "tin drum", which in 1959 his debut work was brought to the author of fame and success.
10 months after the publication, this work written in the genre of the surrealistic grotesca laid the beginning of the Danzig trilogy and was nominated for a literary prize. And the film of the director of the folker of Schlendorf, awarded the Golden Palm Branch and Oscar premiums, is duplicated for different languages of the world, including Italian, English, Russian and Hebrew.
In the early 1960s, the author completed the history of the "Cat-mouse" books and "Doggy years", which became the first step towards rethinking the Nazism and his influence on the lives of people.
After the publication of these writings in Germany, Grass jokes to the new Social Democratic Party and wrote a speech for famous politicians, among whom Willy Brandt was. Subsequently, the quotes from these sketches were used in the play "Plebei rebuild", as well as in the novel called "Thoughthered, or Germans die out."
In 1980-1990s, the German writer replenished the bibliography with such works as "My century", "wide field", "rat" and "Creek Zherlyanka". His creativity was awarded the Nobel Prize for the "playful-gloomy" historical look. And shortly before the death of Gunter, who publicly recognized in the mistakes of young people related to the service in the Nazi formations, created books in the genre of the autobiographical novel.
Death
10 years before the death that occurred on April 13, 2015, due to the infection in the body, the Grass with the second spouse settled in the Duchy of Launburg, and in his house located in Belendorf, the memorial museum is now. There are collected photos, originals of books and personal things of the writer, as well as memories of contemporaries, close relatives and friends.Quotes
"Only true sloths are able to make openings that make work less laborious" "Even bad books still remain the books and therefore sacred" "Who forgets the story of his own people, he is not worthy of her!"Bibliography
- 1959 - "Tin Drum"
- 1961 - "Cats-Mouse"
- 1963 - "Doggy years"
- 1969 - "Under local anesthesia"
- 1972 - "From a snail diary"
- 1979 - "Meeting in Telgte"
- 1986 - "Rat"
- 1995 - "Broad Field"
- 1999 - "My Century"
- 2002 - "Crack Trajectory"
- 2006 - "Bulb of Memory"
- 2008 - "Camera"
- 2009 - "On the way from Germany to Germany"
- 2015 - "On the tranquility / limb"