German poet Gunther Grass slams Israel in second poem

Published on October 1, 2012

Gunter Grass, Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author, has published another poem criticizing Israeli policy.

Gunter Grass told to stay away from Polish synagogue

Published on June 28, 2012

Gunter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning poet banned from entering Israel, is being asked not to visit the Gdansk synagogue.

April 22, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 22, 2012

Gunter Grass: Israel’s response to poem akin to dictatorship

Published on April 11, 2012

German literary giant Gunter Grass said Israel's decision to bar him entry following publication of his controversial poem resembles the behavior of a dictatorship.

Netanayahu blasts Gunter Grass poem

Published on April 6, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted a German poet who wrote that Israel is a threat to world peace.

April 5, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 5, 2012

German author Grass says Israel endangers world peace

Published on April 4, 2012

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be allowed to launch military strikes against Iran, in a poem that led one German newspaper to brand him "the eternal anti-Semite".

I’ve never had real heroes

By Gina Nahai
Published on November 8, 2007

t is true that Gunter Grass has brought much good into the world by his writings. It is also true that his late-in-life revelation calls into question or, depending on your point of view, entirely invalidates his right to the high moral ground he has for so long occupied. But in doing so, he has proven to those of us who have followed his life and career what he says he learned as a POW after the war: That no truth is ever entirely true, that what we revere today may become indefensible tomorrow, that the wisest path through life is to distrust certainty and instead to walk, in Grass' own words, "the long route, paved with doubts."

Gunter Grass Admits to SS Past

Published on August 17, 2006

Grass, 78, whose autobiography is due out this fall, told the Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung in an interview published last Friday that he was drafted into the Waffen SS in the final months of World War II.