Danzig-born author Günter Grass died at the age of 87 in a Lübeck clinic April 13. He achieved fame with his 1959 novel “The Tin Drum,” part of the Danzig Trilogy. 
In 1999, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also considered “the voice of the post-war period” by the media, Grass has always been a frequent topic of all leading Feuilletons. The German news show “Tagesschau” honored Grass’ “baroque, magnificent, rich, possibly oversaturated use of language,” with which he stamped his roughly 20 narratives, from “Cat and Mouse” to “Too Far Afield,” from “The Flounder” to “Crabwalk.” In the “Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung,” the literary scholar Volker Neuhaus called Grass a “German world author,” at the same level of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. Neuhaus stressed a certain point: “Grass had a love-infused relationship with the German language. He loved to play with words, to distinguish their indirect meanings.”
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