https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany's Nobel-winning author Günter Grass said he feared humanity was "sleepwalking" into a world war in the last interview he gave, to a Spanish newspaper, before his death on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150414/grass-warned-of-sleepwalking-into-world-war-in-final-interview Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:00:06 +0200 grass-warned-of-sleepwalking-into-world-war-in-final-interview Germany's Nobel laureate Günter Grass, widely regarded as the country's most famous writer, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishing company said. https://www.thelocal.de/20150413/nobel-winning-author-gnter-grass-dies Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:32:46 +0200 nobel-winning-author-gnter-grass-dies Best-selling German author and Holocaust survivor Ralph Giordano, whose writing offered a moral compass for the nation in the post-war period, died Wednesday aged 91, his publisher said. https://www.thelocal.de/20141211/author-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-91 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:04:00 +0100 author-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-91 Nobel prize-winning writer Gunter Grass, author of The Tin Drum and one of Germany's most influential if controversial intellectual figures, has said he is unlikely to write another novel. https://www.thelocal.de/20140113/gunter-grass-no-more-novels-german-writer Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:25:00 +0100 gunter-grass-no-more-novels-german-writer Nobel prize-winning German author Günter Grass, declared persona non-grata by Israel over a poem saying the country threatened world peace, has published another work, this time praising a man jailed for leaking Israeli nuclear secrets. https://www.thelocal.de/20121001/45285 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:25:00 +0200 45285 German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass has followed his Israel-critical poem from last month with one tearing into European policy on Greece. https://www.thelocal.de/20120526/42775 Sat, 26 May 2012 14:01:00 +0200 42775 A large majority of Germans view Israel as "aggressive" and think Germany no longer has a special obligation to the Jewish nation, according to an opinion poll released Wednesday ahead of a state visit by Germany's president. https://www.thelocal.de/20120523/42719 Wed, 23 May 2012 17:47:00 +0200 42719 German Nobel prize-winning author Gunter Grass left hospital on Friday after undergoing a long-planned medical examination, a spokesman said, downplaying the seriousness of his condition. Grass was admitted on Monday with heart problems. https://www.thelocal.de/20120421/42083 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:55:00 +0200 42083 German author and Nobel laureate Günter Grass was hospitalised in the port city of Hamburg Monday following heart problems, a hospital spokesman said confirming a newspaper report. https://www.thelocal.de/20120417/41987 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:08:00 +0200 41987 German writer and Nobel laureate Günter Grass has effectively been banned from Israel after a poem he published accused the country of endangering world peace sparked a global firestorm of criticism and counter-criticism. https://www.thelocal.de/20120408/41827 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:05:00 +0200 41827 German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass hit back Thursday at what he called a "campaign" by critics of his poem accusing Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. https://www.thelocal.de/20120406/41799 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:18:00 +0200 41799 A new book showing the huge lengths the East German secret police, the Stasi, went to in order to spy on Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass will go on sale in March, its publisher said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20091229/24237 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0100 24237