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Max Frisch

Name	Max Frisch
Birthdate	May 15, 1911
Birthplace	Zurich, Switzerland
Deathdate	April 4, 1991 (aged 79)
Deathplace	Zurich, Switzerland
Occupation	Architect, novelist, playwright, philosopher
Language	German
Nationality	Swiss

Max Rudolf Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

Life

Max Rudolf Frisch was born in 1911 in Zürich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930, but had to abandon his studies in German literature owing to financial problems caused by the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he visited Germany for the first time.

From 1936 to 1941 he studied architecture at the ETH Zurich. His first and still best-known project was in 1942, when he won the invitation of tenders for the construction of a public swimming pool right in the middle of Zurich (the Letzigraben).

In 1947, he met Bertolt Brecht in Zurich. In 1951, he was awarded a grant by the Rockefeller Foundation and spent one year in the United States. After 1955 he worked exclusively as a freelance writer. His experience of postwar Europe is vividly described in his diary for 1946–1949; it contains the first drafts of later fictional works.

During the 1950s and 1960s Frisch wrote several novels that explored problems of alienation and identity in modern societies. These are I'm Not Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957) and Wilderness of Mirrors/Gantenbein (1964). In addition, he wrote political dramas, such as Andorra and The Fire Raisers. He continued to publish extracts from his diaries. These included fragments from contemporary media reports, and paradoxical questionnaires, as well as personal reflections and reportage. He fell in love with a woman called Antonia Quick in 1969.

Max Frisch died of cancer on April 4, 1991 in Zurich. Together with Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch is considered one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century. He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1962, Bard College (1980), the City University of New York (1982), the University of Birmingham (1984), and the TU Berlin (1987). He also won many important German literature prizes: the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1958, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) in 1976, and the Heinrich-Heine-Preis in 1989. In 1965 he won the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society.

Some of the major themes in his work are the search or loss of an individual's identity; guilt and innocence (the spiritual crisis of the modern world after Nietzsche proclaimed that "God is dead"); technological omnipotence (the human belief that everything was possible and technology allowed humans to control everything) versus fate (especially in Homo Faber); and also Switzerland's idealized self-image as a tolerant democracy based on consensus — criticizing that as illusion and portraying people (and especially the Swiss) as being scared by their own liberty and being preoccupied mainly with controlling every part of their life.

Many of his works make reference to (or, as in Jonas und sein Veteran, are centered around) political issues of the time.

List of works

Novels

Stiller (1954, I'm Not Stiller)

Homo Faber (1957)

Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964, A Wilderness of Mirrors 1982, Gantenbein)

Dienstbüchlein (1974)

Montauk (1975)

Tryptichon. Drei szenische Bilder (1978)

Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979, Man in the Holocene )

Blaubart (1982, Bluebeard )

Wilhelm Tell für die Schule (Novella, 1971, Wilhelm Tell: a School Text, published in fiction 1978)

Journals

Blätter aus dem Brotsack (1939)

Tagebuch 1946-1949 (1950)

Tagebuch 1966-1971 (1972)

Dramatic works

Nun singen sie wieder (1945)

Santa Cruz (1947)

Die Chinesische Mauer (1947, The Chinese Wall)

Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949, When the War Was Over)

Graf Öderland (1951)

Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1953, Firebugs)

Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)

Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz (1956)

Andorra (1961)

Biografie (1967)

Jonas und sein Veteran (1989)

References

External links

Literary encyclopedia article on Frisch

Category:1911 births Category:1991 deaths Category:People from Zurich (city) Category:ETH Zurich alumni Category:Swiss novelists Category:Swiss dramatists and playwrights Category:Swiss architects Category:German-language writers Category:Recipients of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Category:Schiller Memorial Prize winners Category:Georg Büchner Prize winners

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Max Frisch

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