Photo Gallery Remembering Günter Grass
German novelist Günter Grass died early Monday morning at a hospital in Lübeck. He established himself as the most famous German writer in the postwar period.
Grass was awared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
Grass's most famous novel was published in 1959. "The Tin Drum" tells the story of the small Oskar Matzerath, a boy who decides to stop growing. The novel was turned into a movie by German director Volker Schlöndorff in 1979. Pictured here on the set are actor David Bennent, who played the lead role, Günter Grass (left) and director Schlöndorff (right).
Grass is pictured here together with German novelist Heinrich Böll in 1973 at the studio of a regional public broadcaster in Frankfurt.
Grass' artistic pursuits weren't limited to writing. He was also an active painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
Here, Günter Grass is seen lighting his pipe at the opening of the Günter Grass House in 2002 in Lübeck, a center dedicated to his work.
Grass died at the age of 87. In addition to his novels, he was also known as a cultural critic and a prominent politcal support of the center-left Social Democratic Party.
