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Günter Grass, Nobel Prize-winning author, was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland in 1927. His parents had a grocery store in Danzig Langfuhr.
The German-Kashubian Grass attended the Danzig Gymnasium Conradinum. He was drafted into the Arbeitsdienst and wounded in 1945, when he was put in an American prison-camp. In 1946 and 1947 he worked in a mine and received a stonemason's education. For many years he studied sculpture and graphics, first in Düsseldorf, then in Berlin. He also worked as an author and travelled frequently. He married in 1954 and since 1960 has lived in Berlin as well as part-time in Schleswig-Holstein. He took an active role in the Social-Democratic (SPD) party and supported Willy Brandt. Divorced in 1978, he remarried in 1979.
Grass became active in the peace movement and visited Calcutta for six months.
From 1983 to 1986 he held the presidency of the Berlin Akademie der Künste. English-speaking readers probably know him best as the author of The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) (film version by director Volker Schlöndorff). He received dozens of international awards and in 1999 acheived the highest literary honor: the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Representatives of the City of Bremen joined together to establish the Günter Grass Foundation, with the aim of establishing a centralized collection of his numerous works, especially his many personal readings and videos and films. The Günter Grass House in Lübeck houses exhibitions, an archive and a library.
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