The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Danzig trams figure extensively in the early stages of Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel ( The Tin Drum ).

Günter Grass's The Tin Drum ( 1959 ).

Dwarfism is depicted in many books, films, and TV series such as Willow, Austin Powers, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, A Son of the Circus, Little People Big World, The Little Couple, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, Seinfeld, In Bruges, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, Game of Thrones ( TV series ), and the film The Station Agent.

Skat features prominently in Günter Grass's novel The Tin Drum and leads a trail connecting the plot.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d ' or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum ( 1979 ), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

In Günter Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Drum ( Die Blechtrommel ), the character Oskar Matzerath " willfully stunted his growth at three feet tall as a three-year-old, although later in the novel he grows to four feet one inch " in reaction to the stress he experiences – the petit-bourgeois German society, the rise of Nazism, etc.

In addition, author Günter Grass had already asked him to play in a film adaptation of his novel, The Tin Drum, a role that ultimately went to the young David Bennent after Dunn's death.

Under the direction of Schiffrin, Pantheon continued to publish important works by European writers such as The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, who would later receive a Nobel Prize for his work ; Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault, The Lover by Marguerite Duras, and Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir.

* The Tin Drum by Günter Grass ( 1963 )

The show was co-written by The Dresden Dolls, cast, and director, Marcus Stern, loosely based around a chapter from Günter Grass's book, The Tin Drum.

He has won Sony Radio Awards for his play Alpha ( 2001 ) and for his script for Different States ( 1991 ), and a Silver Community Award for Oxford Road on BBC Radio Berkshire, as well the British Writers ' Guild award for best dramatisation for his 1996 adaptation of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Schmeling's role as a paratrooper in WWII is mentioned in Gunter Grass's famous 1959 novel " The Tin Drum "

After leaving Hansa-Ariola, the band signed with Virgin Records who released their last studio albums, Gentlemen Take Polaroids ( 1980 ) and Tin Drum ( 1981 ).

Three of the singles from the Tin Drum album also peaked in the UK Top 40, with its unconventional single " Ghosts " reaching No. 5, becoming Japan's biggest domestic hit.

The Tin Drum album itself peaked just outside the UK Top 10, and was the band's first record to be certified by the BPI, being awarded a Silver disc within a month of release, and reaching Gold status within four months.

In 2011, thirty years after its release, Tin Drum was awarded BBC Radio 6 Music's ' Goldie ' award posthumously for the best album of 1981.

With personality conflicts leading to rising tensions within the band, Tin Drum was to be the band's final studio album.

The grim realities of modern combat, and the nature of mechanized society insured that the anti-war viewpoint found presentation in Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five and The Tin Drum.

* Tin Drum ( 1981 )

Grass wrote the following passage, somewhat metaphorically, in his famous novel The Tin Drum:

Schlöndorff's next film was the most successful and ambitious of his career, and perhaps the most important film of post-war Germany: The Tin Drum, released in 1979.

The Tin Drum stars David Bennent as the protagonist Oscar Matzerath, who, after receiving a tin drum on his third birthday, makes the conscious choice to stop growing and remain a three-year-old for the rest of his life.

Schlöndorff had been a great admirer of Wilder for many years and sought his advice during the making of The Tin Drum

Schlöndorff returned to Germany in 1996 to make The Ogre, his most well regarded feature film since The Tin Drum.

Based on a novel by Michel Tournier and starring John Malkovich as the titular Abel Tiffauges, the film revisited many of the themes and time period of The Tin Drum.

On the audio commentary for The Tin Drum, Schlöndorff said that he had wanted to film a sequel to The Tin Drum, as the film was based only on the first two thirds of the novel.