Günter Grass bibliography explained

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.^[1]

Bibliography

Grass wrote the following books.^[2]

Poetry

• Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (poems, 1956); Steidl, 2007,
• Gleisdreieck (poems, 1960)
• Ausgefragt (poems, 1967)
• Letzte Tänze (poems, 2003)
• Dummer August (poems, 2007)

Plays

• Die bösen Köche. Ein Drama (play, 1956) ISSN 0722-8511 translated as The Wicked Cooks in Four Plays (1967)
• Hochwasser. Ein Stück in zwei Akten (play, 1957) The Flood
• Onkel, Onkel. Ein Spiel in vier Akten (play, 1958) Mister, Mister
• Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand (play, 1966) trans. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966)
• Davor (play, 1970) trans. Max (1972) on a plot from Local Anaesthetic

Novel Series

Danzig

1. Die Blechtrommel (novel, 1959) trans. The Tin Drum (1959) .
2. Katz und Maus (novella, 1961) trans. Cat and Mouse (1963)
3. Hundejahre (novel, 1963) trans. Dog Years (1965)

Novels and short stories

• Örtlich betäubt (novel, 1969) trans. Local Anaesthetic (1970)
• Der Butt (novel, 1977) trans. The Flounder (1978)
• Das Treffen in Telgte (novel, 1979) trans. The Meeting at Telgte (1981)
• Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus (novel, 1980) trans. Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out (1982)
• Die Rättin (novel, 1986) trans. The Rat (1987)
• (novel, 1995) trans. Too Far Afield (2000)
• Mein Jahrhundert (short story collection, 1999) trans. My Century (1999)

1. Im Krebsgang (novel, 2002) trans. Crabwalk (2002)

• Die Artur-Knoff-Geschichten. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2019, (untranslated)
• Figurenstehen (2022). trans. The Living Statue: A Legend (2024)

Non-Fiction

• Über das Selbstverständliche. Reden – Aufsätze – Offene Briefe – Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1968) trans. Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969) with 3 additional pieces
• (political reportage, 1972) trans. From the Diary of a Snail (1973)
• Der Bürger und seine Stimme. Reden Aufsätze Kommentare (speeches, essays, 1974)
• Denkzettel. Politische Reden und Aufsätze 1965–1976 (political essays and speeches, 1978)
• Widerstand lernen. Politische Gegenreden 1980–1983 (political speeches, 1984)
• Zunge zeigen. Ein Tagebuch in Zeichnungen (political diary, 1988) trans. Show Your Tongue (1989)
• Unkenrufe (novel, 1992) trans. The Call of the Toad (1992)
• Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (memoir, 2006) trans. Peeling the Onion (2007) – first volume of memoir
• Die Box (memoir, 2008) trans. The Box (2010) – second volume of memoir
• Unterwegs von Deutschland nach Deutschland. Tagebuch 1990. (political diary, 2009) trans. From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990 (2012)
• Grimms Wörter (memoir, 2010) Third volume of memoir.
• Vonne Endlichkait (collection of prose, poetry, and drawings, 2015)

Collections in English translation

• Four Plays (1967) including Ten Minutes to Buffalo
• In the Egg and Other Poems (1977)
• Two States One Nation? (1990)
• Of All That Ends (poetry and prose) (6 December 2016)

Notes and References

1. Book: Woods, Tim. https://books.google.com/books?id=Yv0yc2pHDnIC&pg=PA1994-IA14. Grass, Günter. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists. Routledge. 2008. 978-1-134-70990-8.
2. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999: Günter Grass – Bibliography. Nobelprize.org. 31 May 2015.