Guenter Grass

Identifier
9933251991604146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1959 - 31 Dec 1987
Languages
  • German
  • French
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Scope and Content

Two five-page online documents. The first one contains listed information about a Wiener Library's envelope about Günter Grass (1927-2015), a German poet, playwriter, novelist and graphic artist. The envelope contains various, multi-language newspaper articles about his work, beliefs and his relation to Israel. His role as a public figure, fighting against antisemitism and for the remembrance of the Holocaust in Germany, was highly discussed and critizised when in 2006 he reveiled his past as a soldier for the Waffen-SS.Official biographical information about Grass, provided by Munzinger-Archiv in 1963 and 1965, can be found in the envelope itself and is uploaded as a second document.

Newspaper clippings - official biographical information - magazine articles - open letters - copies - short abstracts

Note(s)

  • Also available on microfilm reel 0067: Frames 430-637

  • Title viewed: 27/05/2021

Subjects

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