I argue for the importance of Guenter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to issues…

Hailed by critics and readers alike as Gunter Grass’s best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical…

In uber funf Jahrzehnten hat Gunter Grass das Essen immer wieder zum Gegenstand seiner kunstlerischen Arbeit gemacht. Von Die Blechtrommel uber Der Butt und Gedichte wie Die Schweinekopfsulze bis hin…

This study extends the long-established notion of Grass’s ‘Danzig Trilogy’ to that of the ‘Danzig Quintet’ - a literary project of epic proportions, which explores the evolution of Germany’s relationship…

Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der in den letzten Jahren viel diskutierten Verstrickung von DDR-Literatur und Staatssicherheit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen drei Romane von Autoren, die uber das Thema aus unterschiedlichen…

A collection of one hundred inter-linked stories celebrating the twentieth century, by Germany’s most eminent contemporary writer. As the sequence of stories unfolds, a lively and rich picture emerges, an…

Hitler’s rise and fall is seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers are symbolic of the grave forces dominating the German troops of that period. Grass…

These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass’s spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German…