Who wrote “The Tin Drum”, published in 1959, part of the “Danzig Trilogy”?
The Tin Drum mentality of his family and neighborhood." The Tin Drum The Tin Drum () is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's "" (Danzig Trilogy). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the Palme d'Or, in the same year, and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year. The story revolves around the life of Oskar Matzerath, as narrated by himself when confined in a mental hospital during the years 1952–1954. Born in 1924 in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), with an adult's capacity for
The Tin Drum (film) infringed. This led to a high-profile series of hearings on the film's merits as a whole versus the controversial scenes, and the role of the judge as censor. The film emerged vindicated and most copies were returned within a few months. By 2001, all the cases had been settled and the film is legally available in Oklahoma County. This incident was covered in the documentary film "Banned in Oklahoma", which is included in the 2004 Criterion Collection DVD release of "The Tin Drum". The Tin Drum (film) The Tin Drum () is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of