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2015 comment

The expansion of government should not be described as "democratic reform".

The SPD policy of the 1970s of expanding government (higher taxes and more government spending and regulations)is described as "democratic reform" in the article - it is absurdly biased to describe expanding government, in size and scope, as "democratic reform".176.249.239.141 (talk) 13:48, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

lead lacks mention of Waffen-SS membership

Per guidelines the lead should mention all major facets of article. Announcement of membership has had relevant authorities in field debating the moral basis of Grass's work. This makes the SS memebership important to the topic of the article. Yet it's currently lacking. One solution;

"German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature and member of Waffen-SS 1944-1945."
124.171.198.7 (talk) 01:45, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Try reading the next paragraph of the lead.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 05:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ethnicity//felt ethnictiy

his mother was kashubian, so he is of kashubian ethnicity. his father was german, so he is of german ethnicity. if grass (or rather you guys) like it or not. another question would be the "felt identity" or the "self-image". you can open up this new category and write "self-image: kashubian". but your category is called "ethnicity". if ethnicity is only about how one feels, then you guys have to turn kurt cobain into irish, for he didnt feel american at all and when he was touring around ireland he was so sentimental and said that he felt that this was his real home. and if i feel bavarian and not german, do i by this feeling lose my german ethnicity? no of course not, how could this be possible?

lets keep to the facts — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malzkorn (talk • contribs) 15:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

besides: the polish source does itself not provide any sources for the mere claim that he saw himself as kashubian. its typically polish to make germans not german. look at beethoven. on the polish side he is called partly flemish because one of his grandparents was flemish, while chopin is just called polish although chopin even had a french father and was half french. or mozart: his father was german, but the polish page doesnt accept to mention this, while all german football players who have one not german parent are turned into germans of xy-origin (compare sami khedira, jonathan tah, karim bellarabi, antonio rüdiger, mario gomez etc) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malzkorn (talk • contribs) 16:06, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

the article in footnote 9 says exactly: he liked to call himself kashubian. the article in footnote 3 does not say anything about his selfimage, theres just one journalist calling him kashubian. there are many other journalists calling him german, so is that a proof of his german ethnicity, too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malzkorn (talk • contribs) 12:41, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Memoir trilogy

In the article, as I see it right now, there is a section called Memoir Trilogy. And then, in the section only "Peeling the onion"is mentioned. What are the other two items? If they do not exist, change the name of the section. 18:44, 11 January 2022 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Math45-oxford (talk • contribs)

Relative ordering in lede paragraphs

Does it strike anyone else as strange to have Grass's actual literary work mentioned only after a short paragraph mentioning his service in the German forces as a teenager? Both are clearly notable, but given that he's known for his contributions to literature, it would make sense to me to have that paragraph precede the brief bio facts one. Mundart (talk) 14:41, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]