---
name: "Günter Grass"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gunter-grass"
fi1m_id: "gunter-grass"
imdb_id: "nm0335848"
tmdb_id: 10251
wikidata_id: "Q6538"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "16 October 1927"
died: "13 April 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:41:21.100489+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Günter Grass

## Identity

Günter Grass

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gunter-grass
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gunter-grass
- **IMDb ID:** nm0335848
- **TMDB ID:** 10251
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6538
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6538, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335848/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10251

Writer. Born 16 October 1927 in Free City of Danzig, Germany. Died 13 April 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 16 October 1927, Free City of Danzig, Germany
- **Died:** 13 April 2015
- **Also known as:** Günter Wilhelm Grass
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 78 (1), 1980s 89 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6538, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335848/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10251

## Biography

Günter Grass was a German writer, poet, playwright and artist. Born in the Free City of Danzig in 1927, he served in the military during the Second World War and later studied art before publishing his first novel, *The Tin Drum*, in 1959. The book formed part of his Danzig Trilogy and was adapted into a 1979 film.

Grass received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. He appeared as himself in the 1988 documentary *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie*, directed by Marcel Ophüls. He died in Lübeck in 2015.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nobelprize.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Tin Drum* (1979), Fi1m 78, Author — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie* (1988), Fi1m 89, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-terminus-the-life-and-times-of-klaus-barbie.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Call of the Toad* (2005), Novel
- *Die Rättin* (1997), Novel
- *The Tin Drum* (1979), Author — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)
- *Cat and Mouse* (1967), Novel

## Gallery

- ![Günter Grass](https://film.one/media/person/3923068/gallery-1a938661ba7e.jpg) Günter Grass — Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/G%C3%BCnter_Grass_auf_dem_Blauen_Sofa.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Literarisches Gipfeltreffen: Gruppe 47 – sechzig Jahre danach Günter Grass, Joachim Kaiser und Martin Walser im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Herles 15. Juni 2007, 20 U](https://film.one/media/person/3923068/gallery-e0f0104090c9.jpg) Literarisches Gipfeltreffen: Gruppe 47 – sechzig Jahre danach Günter Grass, Joachim Kaiser und Martin Walser im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Herles 15. Juni 2007, 20 U — Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Gruppe_47_-_Sechzig_Jahre_danach_7_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Escritor alemán (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/3923068/gallery-9f109d0cbaaa.jpg) Escritor alemán (2012) — Elisa Cabot, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/G%C3%BCnter_Grass%2C_2012.jpg/1280px-G%C3%BCnter_Grass%2C_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dieses Fotos dürfen Sie honorarfrei nutzen, wenn Sie folgenden credit beachten: Copyright: Das blaue Sofa / Club Bertelsmann. Günter Grass wurde am 16. Oktober  (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3923068/gallery-90f63ae43675.jpg) Dieses Fotos dürfen Sie honorarfrei nutzen, wenn Sie folgenden credit beachten: Copyright: Das blaue Sofa / Club Bertelsmann. Günter Grass wurde am 16. Oktober  (2010) — Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/G%C3%BCnter_Grass_beim_Blauen_Sofa.jpg/1280px-G%C3%BCnter_Grass_beim_Blauen_Sofa.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Literarisches Gipfeltreffen: Gruppe 47 – sechzig Jahre danach Günter Grass, Joachim Kaiser und Martin Walser im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Herles 15. Juni 2007, 20 U](https://film.one/media/person/3923068/gallery-646fc17ddd87.jpg) Literarisches Gipfeltreffen: Gruppe 47 – sechzig Jahre danach Günter Grass, Joachim Kaiser und Martin Walser im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Herles 15. Juni 2007, 20 U — Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Gruppe_47_-_Sechzig_Jahre_danach_7.jpg/1280px-Gruppe_47_-_Sechzig_Jahre_danach_7.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Günter Grass (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/3923068/gallery-c4ba3b1daabd.jpg) Günter Grass (2012) — Abuinov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Bubolz_Grass_cropped.jpg/1280px-Bubolz_Grass_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 29 won

- Ernst-Toller-Preis 2007: Ernst-Toller-Preis (won)
- Brückepreis 2006: Brückepreis (won)
- Eckart Witzigmann Prize 2005: Eckart Witzigmann Prize (won)
- Hans Christian Andersen Award 2005: Hans Christian Andersen Award (won)
- Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin 2005: Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin (won)
- honorary doctor of the University of Lübeck 2003: honorary doctor of the University of Lübeck (won)
- Pipe Smoker of the Year 2000: Pipe Smoker of the Year (won)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1999: Nobel Prize in Literature (won)
- Princess of Asturias Literary Prize 1999: Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (won)
- Fritz Bauer Prize 1998: Fritz Bauer Prize (won)
- Hans Fallada Prize 1996: Hans Fallada Prize (won)
- Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize 1996: Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize (won)
- Sonning Prize 1996: Sonning Prize (won)
- Thomas Mann Prize 1996: Thomas Mann Prize (won)
- Hermann Kesten Prize 1995: Hermann Kesten Prize (won)
- Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts 1994: Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (won)
- honorary citizen of Gdańsk 1993: honorary citizen of Gdańsk (won)
- Honorary doctor of the University of Gdańsk 1993: Honorary doctor of the University of Gdańsk (won)
- Grinzane Cavour Prize 1992: Grinzane Cavour Prize (won)
- honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 1990: honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (won)
- Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg) 1988: Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg) (won)
- Feltrinelli Prize 1982: Feltrinelli Prize (won)
- honorary doctor of Harvard University 1976: honorary doctor of Harvard University (won)
- Theodor Heuss Award 1969: Theodor Heuss Award (won)
- Fontane-Preis 1968: Fontane-Preis (won)
- Carl von Ossietzky Medal 1967: Carl von Ossietzky Medal (won)
- Georg Büchner Prize 1965: Georg Büchner Prize (won)
- honorary doctorate 1965: honorary doctorate (won)
- German Critics' Prize for Literature 1960: German Critics' Prize for Literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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