Berlin, July 5 .- The relation of Guenter Grass with Poland, and through this the relations between Poland and Germany, is the subject of an exhibition which opens on Wednesday in the German city of Luebeck (north) and was presented today to the press.
"Guenter Grass is a mediator between the Poles and Germans. In his work and his person reflects some of the Germano-Polish history," said, tera gold, museum director Guenter Grass House, Joerg Philipp Thomsen.
"From Danzig to Luebeck" is the title of the exhibition in allusion to the hometown of Grass, the current Polish Gdansk, and the city where the author spends much time today.
Grass himself has admitted that a certain similarity between Luebeck and his hometown was one of the reasons that led him to seek the, mafia wars items, proximity of this city in northern Germany where his museum.
The microcosm of his father's house in Danzig, German enclave before the Second World War, Grass serves to develop literary stage the rise of National Socialism, war and Holacausto.
As a citizen, moreover, Grass has always been concerned by Germano-Polish relations since 1961 and spoke out publicly for the recognition of, mortal gold, the line formed by the Oder and Neisse rivers as the border between the two countries, which would not happen until 1990 .
In 1970, Grass accompanied the chancellor Willy Brandt's visit to Poland and was a direct witness of his legendary genuflect before the monument to the victims of the repression of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.
The exhibition, which will be open until January 31, 2011, will be accompanied by a series of lectures and conferences on the Germano-Polish relations.