Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Zurich
- Educated at
- University of ZurichETH Zurich
- Awards
- 🏆 Heinrich Heine Prize🏆 Neustadt International Prize for Literature🏆 Schiller Memorial Prize🏆 Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images."
"Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine th…"
"We nest in an accident whose precarious balance, when we happen to become conscious of it, oppresses yet at the same time inspires us"
"The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority."
"Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?"
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Timeline
1911
Born
Birth1991
Died
Death
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