Introduction -- Grass's Biography in Context: 1927-1959 -- Corporeal Memory, Trauma, and Art in The Tin Drum -- Bildung, Heimat, and Gendered Modes of German Memory in The Tin Drum -- A Patriarchal Arbiter of German Cultural Memory and His Feminized Others: Leveling Bildung, Opening Heimat, and Championing Art from the 1960s to the New Millennium -- Grass's Early Life Once Again: Broken Silence, Mourning, and Gendered Approaches to Memory in Peeling the Onion -- Epilogue -- Works Cited.