Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)

At the beginning of the 1950s, Oskar Matzerath is at a sanatorium and nursing home drumming and writing down the story of his life and family – from the beginning of the century to Adenauer’s Germany. He has seen and heard everything and nothing has escaped him, because he was a sensitive infant whose mental development was already complete at birth. This outsider, who can drum up reality and shatter glass, proves to be the only sane person in a world full of false appearances, lies and crime. With the publication of “The Tin Drum” in 1959, the German post-war novel became part of world literature and Oskar the Drummer gained his rightful place in modern mythology.