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
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Trending topics shown first"You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'"
"How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses."
"People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters …"
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1911
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Died
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