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Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass

Gdańsk Wrzeszcz

Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass
Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass
Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass
Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass
Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass
Visiting Gdańsk, In the Footsteps of Günter Grass

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The tourist route in Gdańsk In the footsteps of Gunter Grass leads through the places where the most famous inhabitant of Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz grew up. Günter Grass was born in the Free City of Gdańsk and was closely associated with it until the end of his life. He lived at 13 Lelewela Street (then Labesweg) in the Wrzeszcz district. It is in Gdańsk that the action of his most famous novel, "The Tin Drum", takes place. The Tin Drum is a grotesque-naturalistic novel, the film adaptation of which in 1979 was created by Volker Schlöndorff. The entire Gdańsk trilogy deals with the development of fascism and war episodes, the plot of which takes place in Gdańsk, a city on the border of culture, the "little homeland" of Poles and Germans who have lived together for hundreds of years. Günter Grass has been awarded many times. The most important distinction was the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1999. The tourist route will start at 5a Lendziona Street, where his parents lived at the time of the writer's birth. Then the participants will go to the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, where Grass was baptized, and to the building of the present General Secondary School No. 2, the former primary school attended by Günter Grass. The next point on the tour will be Wybicki Square with the bench of Grass and Oskar, the protagonist of the "Tin Drum" and a fountain with the figure of Tulli. Later on the tour, participants will visit Grass's family home, the hospital where he was born and many other places directly related to his life or work.