Günter Grass bibliography

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Grass in 1982

Günter Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German writer, sculptor and graphic artist. He had an international breakthrough as a novelist with his Danzig Trilogy (1959–1963). He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1965 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.[1]

Bibliography[edit]

Grass wrote the following books.[2]

Poetry[edit]

  • Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (poems, 1956); Steidl, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-569-7
  • Gleisdreieck (poems, 1960)
  • Ausgefragt (poems, 1967)
  • Letzte Tänze (poems, 2003)
  • Dummer August (poems, 2007)

Plays[edit]

  • Die bösen Köche. Ein Drama (play, 1956) ISSN 0722-8511 translated as The Wicked Cooks in Four Plays (1967)
  • Hochwasser. Ein Stück in zwei Akten (play, 1957) The Flood
  • Onkel, Onkel. Ein Spiel in vier Akten (play, 1958) Mister, Mister
  • Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand (play, 1966) trans. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966)
  • Davor (play, 1970) trans. Max (1972) on a plot from Local Anaesthetic

Novel Series[edit]

Dog Years, cover from 1999

Danzig

  1. Die Blechtrommel (novel, 1959) trans. The Tin Drum (1959) ISBN 978-0-679-72575-6.
  2. Katz und Maus (novella, 1961) trans. Cat and Mouse (1963) ISBN 978-0-15-615551-9
  3. Hundejahre (novel, 1963) trans. Dog Years (1965) ISBN 978-0-7493-9450-9

Novels and short stories[edit]

  1. Im Krebsgang (novel, 2002) trans. Crabwalk (2002) ISBN 978-0-15-602970-4
  • Die Artur-Knoff-Geschichten. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-292-5 (untranslated)
  • Figurenstehen (2022). trans. The Living Statue: A Legend (2024)

Non-Fiction[edit]

  • Über das Selbstverständliche. Reden – Aufsätze – Offene Briefe – Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1968) trans. Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969) with 3 additional pieces
  • Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke [de] (political reportage, 1972) trans. From the Diary of a Snail (1973) ISBN 978-0-7493-9455-4
  • Der Bürger und seine Stimme. Reden Aufsätze Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1974)
  • Denkzettel. Politische Reden und Aufsätze 1965–1976 (political essays and speeches, 1978)
  • Widerstand lernen. Politische Gegenreden 1980–1983 (political speeches, 1984)
  • Zunge zeigen. Ein Tagebuch in Zeichnungen (political diary, 1988) trans. Show Your Tongue (1989)
  • Unkenrufe (novel, 1992) trans. The Call of the Toad (1992) ISBN 978-0-15-615340-9
  • Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (memoir, 2006) trans. Peeling the Onion (2007) ISBN 978-0-15-603534-7 – first volume of memoir
  • Die Box (memoir, 2008) trans. The Box (2010) ISBN 978-0-09-953975-9 – second volume of memoir
  • Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland. Tagebuch 1990. (political diary, 2009) trans. From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990 (2012) ISBN 978-0-547-36460-5
  • Grimms Wörter (memoir, 2010) Third volume of memoir.
  • Vonne Endlichkait (collection of prose, poetry, and drawings, 2015) ISBN 978-3-95829-042-6

Collections in English translation

  • Four Plays (1967) including Ten Minutes to Buffalo
  • In the Egg and Other Poems (1977)
  • Two States One Nation? (1990)
  • Of All That Ends (poetry and prose) (6 December 2016) ISBN 978-0-544-78538-0

References[edit]

  1. ^ Woods, Tim (2008). "Grass, Günter". Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-70990-8.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999: Günter Grass – Bibliography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 31 May 2015.