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Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the virtually all representative writers of the German literature after World War II. Within his originative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues on to problems of identity, morality & political commitment. His have of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications.
Life Max Frisch was innate around 1911 around Zurich; his father was an architect. He enrolled at a University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, however got to abandon imputable fiscal problems when a dying of his father around 1932. Instead, he began working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers around Switzerland. By using the NZZ he would email a womb-to-tomb ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his have views were around stark direct contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. Inside 1933 he travelled through eastern & south-eastern Europe, & inside 1935 he visited Germany for the first instance. From either 1936 to 1941 he studied architecture at the ETH Zurich. His number one & however right-known design was inside 1942, when he won a invitation of tenders for the construction of a public playing bath correct midmost of Zurich (the Letzigraben). Around 1947, he met Bertolt Brecht in Zurich. Inside 1951, he got the grant of the Rockefeller Trust and spent a single month in the U.S. Since 1955, he worked exclusively as a freelance writer. Max Frisch died of cancer on April 4, 1991 in Zurich. Together by using Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch is considered one of the virtually all influential Swiss writers of the 20th century. He got been awarded honorary doctorial degrees of the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, in 1962, Bard College (1980), the City University of New York (1982), the University of Birmingham (1984), and a TU Berlin (1987). He likewise won numbers of crucial German literature prizes: a Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1958, the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels around 1976, and a Heinrich-Heine-Preis in 1989. A bit of of a major even themes within his function come the research or loss of 1's identity; guilt and innocence (the spiritual crisis of the modern times when Nietzsche proclaimed that "God is dead"); technological omnipotence (a mortal belief that all about was imaginable & technology allowed homo to control all about) versus fate (especially in Homo faber); & too Switzerland's idealized self-image when a tolerant democracy based on consensus, critizising it when illusion & depiction humans (& especially a Swiss) as existence frightened by their have liberty & existence preoccupied primarily by having controlling each a share of their life. Max Frisch hwhen universally been the political human, & numerous of his works produce information to (or even, as within Jonas und sein Veteran, come centered in) political issues of the instance.
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Max Frisch Biography and list of selected works. QuickTime Clip from Who Is Max Frisch (1968) 42 sec. clip of the 20' documentary produced by Allan King for CBC on the Swiss writer, excerpt: Max Frisch puts on a play (1.2 MB). Filmography Films based on Max Frisch's writings at IMDb. |
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