It dealt with the events of a refugee ship, full of thousands of Germans, being sunk by a Russian submarine, killing most on board.
It was one of a number of works since the late 20th century that have explored the victimization of Germans in World War II.
In Grass published the first volume in a trilogy of autobiographic memoirs. Titled Peeling the Onion German: In a prepublication interview Grass for the first time revealed that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS , and not only a Flakhelfer anti-aircraft assistant as he had long said.
On being asked what caused the need for public confession and revelation of his past in the book he answered: It had to come out in the end.
The interview and the book caused critics to accuse him of hypocrisy for having hidden this part of his past, while simultaneously being a strong voice for ethics and morality in the public debate.
Grass second-guesses his own memories, throws his own autobiographical statements into doubt and questions whether the person inhabiting his past was really him.
His works also show a sustained concern for the marginal and marginalized subjects, such as Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf in The Tin Drum whose body was considered an aberration unworthy of life in the Nazi ideology, or with Roma and Sinti people who were also deemed impure and unworthy and subjected to eugenics and genocide.
His literary style combines elements of magic realism , with a penchant for questioning and complicating questions of authorship by intermingling realistic autobiographical elements with unreliable narrators and fantastic events or happenings that creates irony or satirizes events to form social critiques.
Particularly American critics such as John Updike have found the mixture of politics and social critique in his works to diminish its artistic qualities.
Even if frequently critical of Grass, Updike considered him to be "one of the very, very few authors whose next novel one has no intention of missing".
John Irving called Grass "simply the most original and versatile writer alive". Grass was for several decades a supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and its policies.
He took part in German and international political debate on several occasions. Books containing his speeches and essays were released throughout his literary career.
In the s, he became active in the peace movement and visited Calcutta for six months. During the events leading up to the reunification of Germany in —90, Grass argued for the continued separation of the two German states.
He asserted that a unified Germany would be likely to resume its role as belligerent nation-state. This argument estranged many Germans, who came to see him as too much of a moralizing figure.
In , Grass proposed the creation of a German-Polish museum for art lost to other countries during the War.
The Hague Convention of requires the return of art that had been evacuated, stolen or seized. Some countries refused to repatriate some of the looted art.
Was gesagt werden muss was published in several European newspapers. Grass expressed his concern about the hypocrisy of German military support the delivery of a submarine for an Israel that might use such equipment to launch nuclear warheads against Iran, which "could wipe out the Iranian people".
And he hoped that many would demand "that the governments of both Iran and Israel allow an international authority free and open inspection of the nuclear potential and capability of both.
According to Avi Primor , president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations , Grass was the only important German cultural figure who had refused to meet with him when he served as Israeli ambassador to Germany.
To be sure, the Israeli protestors were not targeting Grass personally and their anger had nothing at all to do with his literature.
It was the German effort to establish cultural relations with Israel to which they objected. Grass, however, did not see it that way and may well have felt personally slighted.
Grass was a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly , an organisation which campaigns for democratic reformation of the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system.
On 26 April , Grass wrote a poem criticizing European policy for the treatment of Greece in the European sovereign-debt crisis.
Just a few days before he died Grass completed his last book, Vonne Endlichkait. Grass received dozens of international awards; in , he was awarded the highest literary honour: The Swedish Academy noted him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
After an unsuccessful attempt to volunteer for the U-boat fleet in , at age 15, Grass was conscripted into the Reichsarbeitsdienst Reich Labor Service.
He was called up for the Waffen-SS in In , Grass published an account of his wartime experience in The New Yorker , including an attempt to "string together the circumstances that probably triggered and nourished my decision to enlist.
We were in the labour service and all at once, a year later, the call-up notice lay on the table. Others defended Grass, saying his involuntary Waffen-SS membership came very early in his life, resulting from his being drafted shortly after his seventeenth birthday.
For example, novelist John Irving criticised those who would dismiss the achievements of a lifetime because of a mistake made as a teenager.
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He represented the under team at the European Championship in the Czech Republic, starting all 4 matches. He was part of the squad for the Summer Olympics , where Germany won the silver medal.
He is the only fielder in German football history who participated in two world cups without active playing. In May , Ginter married his wife Christina.
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