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In 1927, on Oskar's third birthday, he is given a tin drum. Reflecting on the foolish antics of his drunken parents and friends, he resolves to stop growing and throws himself down the cellar stairs. From that day on, he does not grow at all. Oskar discovers he can shatter glass with his voice, an ability he often uses when he is upset.
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film , which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, ... Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig on 16 October 1927, to Wilhelm Grass (1899–1979), ...
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.
The Danzig Trilogy (German: Danziger Trilogie) is series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass.The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).
Tin drum and similar may refer to: The Tin Drum, a 1959 novel by Günter Grass; The Tin Drum, the film adaptation of that novel; Tin Drum, a 1981 album by the new ...
The 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German writer Günter Grass (1927–2015) "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." [ 1 ] He is the eighth German author to become a recipient of the prize after Heinrich Böll in 1972 .
Günter Grass, (1927-2015) novelist (The Tin Drum). Received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. Inge Meysel, (1910–2004) film, theatre and TV actress.