Oskar Brandt How this Unassuming Germans Story Will Leave You In Awe
After Germany's senior squad won the World Cup, the under-19s have impressed at the European Championship. Who will be the next Bastian Schweinsteiger or Mesut Özil? We look at the German football stars of the future.
The Werder Bremen striker got things started for the Germans in their European Championship semifinal against Austria, opening the scoring in the 20th minute. This took his goal tally to six, the tournament's best. The 19-year-old Selke has yet to make an impact in the Bundesliga though, with no goals in three appearances.
Eintracht Frankfurt's Marc Stendera (left) doubled Germany's advantage on the half-hour mark, finishing neatly after an Austrian defender had blocked his first attempt. The midfielder will be looking to get more playing time in the Bundesliga this season after a couple of key departures from Frankfurt.
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Levin Öztunali, who left Hamburg for Bayer Leverkusen before the start of last season, will be hoping his performances in Hungary will also catch his Bundesliga coach's eye. By the time he found the back of the net in the 58th minute of the semifinal, the Austrians were pretty much out of the game. Öztunali happens to be the grandson of legendary Hamburg and Germany striker Uwe Seeler.
Hany Muktar rounded out the scoring in the 68th minute to make it 4-0 for Germany. He first netted the ball in the opening minutes of the match, but the Hertha Berlin midfielder had that one disallowed by the referee. Coach Sorg will be hoping for at least another goal from him against Portugal.
Team captain, Niklas Stark from Nuremburg FC provides the squad with defensive stability. Stark was part of the squad that lost in penalties to the Netherlands in the final of the U-17 tournament two years ago. Now he is dreaming of avenging that defeat by beating Portugal in Budapest.
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Netminder Oliver Schnitzler, who plays his club football with Aalen in the Bundesliga's second division, has only had to reach behind him twice in the tournament - when Germany were almost beaten by Serbia in Group B. Stark scored in extra-time to even the score to 2-2 and rescue a point for Germany.
Although only 19 years old and a defender, Kevin Akpoguma already has a Bundesliga goal to his name for Hoffenheim. He was also on the field for that U-17 final against Holland in 2012. Like Stark, he too is determined not to miss a second shot at an international title.
Joshua Kimmich won promotion to the second Bundesliga with his side RB Leipzig last season, having spent his formative years in the VfB Stuttgart youth system. Leipzig, who are just one of several sports teams funded by a certain Austrian energy drink, are hoping to take the next step - to the top flight - as soon as possible. Kimmich will be looking to help them along on that ride.
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After conceeding two goals against Serbia, Marc-Oliver Kempf, (seen here in Germany's opening game against Bulgaria) and the rest of the defense were back on form against Ukraine - helping goalkeeper Schnitzler keep clean sheets against Ukraine and Austria. The Eintracht Frankfurt product has joined SC Freiburg where he hopes to get more playing time in the upcoming Bundesliga season.
Pacey winger Julian Brandt of Bayer Leverkusen is regarded as one of the top young players in Germany. He already has two Bundesliga goals for Leverkusen after just 12 appearances. He has also had his first taste of action in the Champions LeagueGuenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author who explored Nazi brutality and the trauma Germany suffered after World War II in novels such as
He died Monday morning in a clinic in the northern city of Luebeck, Germany, according to a statement on the Twitter feed of his publisher, Steidl Verlag.
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Grass’s magic realist work wrestled with the impact on individuals of Germany’s tumultuous 20th century. A Social Democratic Party activist, he said the country had no claim to a normal national identity after the Holocaust.
“It’s my opinion that every writer who has really read Guenter Grass is in his debt, ” the American novelist John Irving wrote in a tribute for Grass’s 80th birthday published in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper in 2007. “For myself, I know that with certainty.”
Grass twice grabbed headlines in later years: The first time in 2006, when he revealed in his memoirs that he had served in the Waffen-SS, a combat arm of Adolf Hitler’s elite SS security unit, at the end of World War II.
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He caused uproar again in April 2012 with a poem accusing Israel of endangering world peace with its nuclear capacity and the threat it posed to Iran. The poem, published in Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung under the title
Tackled “the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, the losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them.”
The 1959 novel’s complex narrative, shifting perspectives, surreal prose and collection of circus-like characters created one of the first postwar German works to describe the role - and complicity - of many working-class Germans in Hitler’s dictatorship and the persecution of Jews. It challenged the belief that Nazism was the work of a fanatical few.
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The novel tells the story of Oskar Matzerath, whose two “presumptive fathers” are a Nazi party member and a Pole later executed for defending a post office during the German invasion. After receiving a tin drum as a gift at age 3, Oskar wills himself not to grow, refusing to join the company of adults entering World War II.
“To avoid playing the cash register, I clung to my drum and from my third birthday on refused to grow by so much as a finger’s breadth, ” Oskar says. “I remained the precocious three-year-old, towered over by grownups but superior to all grownups, who refused to measure his shadow with theirs.”
, the 1981 novel considered to be a central post-colonial work, exhibits a similar treatment of Indian history as applied by Grass to Germany.
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Sporting a walrus moustache often wreathed in the smoke pouring forth from his pipe, Grass waited 61 years to reveal that he had joined a Waffen-SS unit. As the self-styled arbiter of the German national conscience, his belated confession drew an avalanche of criticism.
“The ‘Praeceptor Germaniae’ had something to say about everything and everybody, but not on how it came about and how it was that he himself - even if only for a few months - wore the uniform of Himmler and Heydrich, ” the Sueddeutsche Zeitung said in an opinion piece in 2006.
Grass was born on Oct. 16, 1927, in the northern coastal city of Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland, to parents who ran a shop. He was a child when World War II began with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. In his 2006 memoir
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“As a member of the Hitler Youth I was a young Nazi, ” he wrote in the memoir. “A believer until the end.”
When Grass tried to join a submarine division at 15 because he wanted to escape home, he was first turned away. In the final months of the war, he was called to Dresden to be drafted into the SS Frundsberg division, which had degenerated from one of Hitler’s fiercest paramilitary forces to a ragged crew of conscripts.
“I wasn’t aware of any fault, ” Grass said in an ARD television interview shortly after his confession. “I was pulled into the SS, didn’t participate in any crimes, and always had the desire one day, in a broader context, to reveal it.”
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In April 1945, Grass was injured and taken by the U.S. Army as a prisoner, spending almost a year at an internment camp. A refugee in West Germany after being driven out of Poland, he went on to study sculpture and painting at the Dusseldorf Arts Academy and moved to West Berlin in 1953 to continue his studies at the city’s Academy of the Arts.
After 1956, he spent much time with his new wife, the Swiss ballet student Anna Schwarz, in Paris, where he also began writing poetry, short fiction and theater. It was there that he completed
In the 1960s, Grass grew more politically active and got acquainted with Willy Brandt, the Berlin mayor who would become West Germany’s first postwar Social Democrat chancellor. He participated in political campaigns and joined the SPD in 1982, though he left in 1993 to protest immigration policy.
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The writer’s aim was always to place the atrocities of Nazism at the core of the German national debate, as with his role in denouncing the election of Christian Democrat Kurt Georg Kiesinger as chancellor in 1966. Kiesinger had joined the Nazi Party in 1933, the year Hitler took power in Germany.
“How should we commemorate the tortured and murdered resistance fighters, the dead of Auschwitz and Treblinka, if you, the fellow traveler of those times, have chosen to determine the political directives of today?” Grass wrote at the time.
That position aligned with his condemnation of a 1985 visit by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Ronald Reagan to a military cemetery
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