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The Danzig Trilogy (German: Danziger Trilogie) is a series of novels and novellas by German author Günter Grass.cite-ref-1[1] The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).

The three books in the trilogy are:

• The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959

• Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), published in 1961

• Dog Years (Hundejahre), published in 1963

John Reddick was the first person to explicitly identify the three books as a trilogy and to refer to it as the Danzig Trilogy.cite-ref-mews-2-0[2]cite-ref-3[3] German publisher Luchterhand re-issued the three novels under the overall heading Danziger Trilogie in 1980. In 1987, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich published the first US edition of the entire trilogy under this name.cite-ref-mews-2-1[2]

The trilogy is sometimes seen as part of a larger pentology that includes the later works Der Butt (1977) and Die Rättin (1986). An alternative interpretation extends the trilogy to a sextet by the addition of Der Butt, Unkenrufe (1992), and Im Krebsgang (2002). Publisher Steidl advertised these six books as Das Danzig-Sextett in 2006.cite-ref-mews-2-2[2]

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefdi-napoli1980Di Napoli, Thomas (1980). "In Quest of the Messiah: A Study of the Christ Figure in 'The Danzig Trilogy' of Günter Grass". The Centennial Review. 24 (1): 25–42.

cite-note-mews-22. ↑ citerefmews2008Mews, Siegfried (2008). "Danziger Trilogie / The Danzig Trilogy". Günter Grass and His Critics: From 'The Tin Drum' to 'Crabwalk'. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 92–100.

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefreddick1975Reddick, John (1975). The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass : A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years. Harcourt. ISBN 9780151238156.