Max Frisch
(born 15.05.1911 in Zurich; died 04.04.1991 in Zurich), author, architect
Max Frisch studied German and architecture in Zurich. In 1942 he opened an architect's office, but worked as an author alongside that, and also afterwards as his main career. He wrote novels, short stories, diaries, poloitical and literary essays, and theatre plays. In 1954 his novel "Stiller" (I'm Not Stiller) was published, the first work for which he became widely known. In this book, and also in "Homo faber" (1957) and "Mein Name sei Gantenbein" (Gantenbein; 1964), Frisch focused on identity. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1958, and he achieved his first successful stage production the same year with "Biedermann und die Brandstifter" (The Fire Raisers). Max Frisch received numerous awards for his extensive work, for instance the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1976 and the Heinrich Heine Prize of the City of Düsseldorf in 1989. The city of Zurich has awarded the Max Frisch Prize in his memory since 1998.
Lebendiges Museum Online Max Frisch
Translated works
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Sketchbook, 1966–1971
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From the Berlin Journal
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Sketchbook, 1946–1949
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Zurich Transit
Seagull Books, Kolkata, 2021 -
An Answer from the Silence
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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
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Correspondence
Seagull Books, Kolkata, 2012