Well before Gunter Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize, his first novel, “The Tin Drum,” was generally considered the big German novel of the post-World War II period, if not of the entire 20th century. It ...

Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum was published in 1959, and for the following two decades it hovered near the top of any sane person’s list of unadaptable novels. Its protagonist, Oskar Matzerath, ...

Forty years ago, Volker Schlöndorff's "The Tin Drum" won the Academy Award for best foreign film. A digitally restored version is now released in theaters. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Oskar Matzerath recognizes the world as a universal disaster - and rejects ...

Gunter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author who explored Nazi brutality and the trauma that Germany suffered after World War II in novels such as “The Tin Drum” and “Cat and Mouse,” has died. He was ...

Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author who explored Nazi brutality and the trauma Germany suffered after World War II in novels such as “The Tin Drum” and “Cat and Mouse,” has died. He was 87.

Movies adapted from great novels often fall short, in key respects, of their literary forebears. But sometimes they can faithfully translate or even expand on the original. Director-writer Volker ...

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BERLIN, April 13 (Reuters) - German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of works such as "The Tin Drum", has died at the age of 87, a foundation in his name said on Monday. Grass, ...