Bei der Konzertlesung Die Blechtrommel verschmilzt Günter Grass' Jahrhundertroman aus dem Jahr 1959 mit klassischer Schlagwerkmusik. Ausgewählte Szenen des Buches werden musikalisch untermalt; dabei bekommen die vielfältigen Schlaginstrumente auch ihren solistischen Platz. Sprache und Musik erzählen das Leben Oskar Matzeraths, der mit drei Jahren sein Wachstum einstellt und aus scheinbarer Kinderperspektive die Welt der Erwachsenen erlebt. Eine...

A collection of stories--one for every year of this century--offers an interlocking history of murder, war, wondrous technological achievement, persecution, athletic prowess, scientific advancement, and megalomania

A fictional autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.

Presents a fictional exploration of the worst maritime disaster in history, the 1945 sinking of a German cruise ship packed with refugees by a Soviet sub--a disaster that killed nine thousand people.

The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more cheated death can set to work with such wisdom, defiance,...

"Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters-four, five, six, eight in number-and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk…" In a great literary experiment, Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, and of their father,...