I Wrote Book After Book To the Death of Günter Grass

Günter Grass 19272015 belonged to Group 47 from 1957 and became an internationally respected author of postwar German literature with his debut novel The Tin Drum 1959 His central motivation was the loss of his homeland Gdansk and his confrontation with the National Socialist past which is reflected in many of his works In 1999 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature In 2011 Dagmar Wittmers looked over Günter Grasss shoulder as he worked with his printer Fritz Margull or met his sister Waltraut In Behlendorf and Lübeck Grass looked back on his years in Paris family life in Berlin his time at the side of Willy Brandt whose speeches he edited Friends such as the Israeli writer Amos Oz or publisher Klaus Wagenbach the actress Katharina Thalbach and his daughter Helene gave their views on Grass the man and artist