compromise

history

writer

nationality

German

prizes and famous lectures

Nobel Prize

occupation / innovator as

novelist

screenwriter

poet

sculptor

lyricist

playwright

illustrator

autobiographer

essayist

printmaker

painter

graphic artist

religion

Catholicism

 Berlin

scientific organization

Academy of Arts

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Royal Society of Literature

World War II

altar server

race / ethnicity

Kashubians

PEN Centre Germany

Group 47

Art is accusation, expression, passion. (Gunther Grass)

is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. Gunter Grass

is at paradoxically exuberantly pointless and necessary all the same in a way that challenges our puritan logic.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. (Gunther Grass)

is irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. Gunter Grass

is the mark of life just as being uncompromising is the mark of art.

is an absurd happening into which more or less gifted people attempt to introduce some perspectives.

is someone who is not smart enough to stop writing.

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