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13/04/2015 Novelist Günter Grass dies

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Günter Grass Dies at Age 87

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Gunter Grass Dies at 87: Nobel Prize winning writer dies in hospital in northern Germany

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Günter Grass gives an advice for today’s youth

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Günter Grass on His Nazi Past (July 2, 2007) | Charlie Rose

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Günter Grass Interview: Our Democracies are Collapsing

Grass was a German novelist and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text in European magic realism. He was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Grass died of a lung infection in a Lübeck hospital at the age of 87.