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| Max Frisch is born on May, 15th in Zurich.Max frisch im not stiller It was a commercial success, and won for Frisch widespread recognition as a novelist. Already in "Stiller" Frisch embedded, in a novel, little sub-narratives in the form of fragmentary episodic sections from his "diaries". Second volume, p. In Suzanne M. His mother is Karolina Bettina Frisch, born Wildermuth. His father Franz Bruno Frisch is an architect and real estate broker. | |
| The family has financial problems most of the time. Max Frisch attends a mathematical high school in Zurich. | |
| Max Frisch studies German language at the University of Zurich. | |
| Death of father Franz Bruno Frisch.
Max Frisch is forced to abandon his studies because of financial problems. | Frisch starts working as a freelancer for Zurich's traditional liberal quality newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. |
| Max Frisch travels to the Balkans and southeastern Europe. | He finances his trip by publishing travel reports. |
| | First novel: Jürg Reinhart.
Eine sommerliche Schicksalsfahrt |
| First trip to Germany, where Frisch is being confronted with the racist Nazi ideology. | |
| Max Frisch studies architecture at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), [Federal Institute of Technology], Zurich and graduates. | |
| | Short story: Antwort aus der Stille.
Eine Erzählung aus den Bergen. |
| | Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis (literary prize donated by the city of Zurich, named after the famous 19th century writer). |
| As most Swiss men, Max Frisch serves in the Swiss Army during World War II.
Until his days of military service sum up to | Blätter aus dem Brotsack, das Tagebuch eines Soldaten [Papers from the rations' bag, diary of a soldier] |
| Max Frisch marries Constance von Meyenburg who is also an architect. He starts his own business as an architect. | Architect Max Frisch wins a contest for the construction of a municipal swimming-pool in Zurich (among 82 competitors). |
| | J'adore ce qui me brûle oder Die Schwierigen. |
| | Bin oder Die Reise nach Peking published. Nun singen sie wieder.Kurzbiografie max frisch biography Frisch war zweimal verheiratet — mit Gertrud von Meyenburg — und Marianne Oellers — — und hatte unter anderem eine Beziehung mit Ingeborg Bachmann — Inhaltlich zeichnen sich alle drei Texte durch eine thematische Hinwendung zum Tod, einer Lebensbilanz aus. Wikiquote has quotations related to Max Frisch. For Frisch, each person possesses a unique individuality , justified from the inner being, and which needs to be expressed and realized.Ein Schauspiel aus der Gegenwart first performed at Zurich's theater. |
| Trips to Germany and Italy. | First performances of Santa Cruz and Die chinesische Mauer. |
| Architect Frisch earns his living by supervising the contruction of "his" municipal swimming-pool (opens ). | Tagebuch [diary], published , documents Frisch encountering German author Bert Brecht at Zurich's theatre where they both direct plays. |
| Max Frisch travels to Berlin, Prague and Warsaw and attends an internationcal congress of "intellectuals for peace" in Wroclaw (communist Poland).
Other participants include Switzerland's most famous architect Le Corbusier, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, Swiss theologian Karl Barth and François Bondi. | |
| Frisch lives in the U.S.A. (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles) thanks to a Rockefeller scholarship. | Graf Öderland first performed in Zurich. |
| Frisch starts a debate on modern architecture and city development. | A German radio station broadcasts radio plays Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Rip van Winkle. |
| Max Frisch separates from his family. | Novel: Stiller |
| Max Frisch quits working as an architect, he is now able to earn his living as a free author.
Nevertheless he is still interested in architecture and proposes to construct a completely new city in Switzerland: Achtung: die Schweiz (with co-authors Lucius Burckhardt and Markus Kutter). | Schleussner-Schueller-Preis donated by Hessischer Rundfunk [central German radio station] in appreciation of his radio play Der Laie und die Architektur. |
| Max Frisch participates at the International Design Conference in Aspen (Colorado) and gives a speech entitled Why don't we have the cities we need?.Max frisch biography Frisch himself wrote of Gantenbein that his purpose was "to show the reality of an individual by having him appear as a blank patch outlined by the sum of fictional entities congruent with his personality. You adjust the settings. His answer was to move away from the play as a form of parable , in favour of a new form of expression which he termed " Dramaturgy of Permutation " "Dramaturgie der Permutation" , a form which he had introduced with Gantenbein and which he now progressed with Biographie , written in its original version in Unlike Brecht however, Frisch offered few insights or answers, preferring to leave the audience the freedom to provide their own interpretations. Trip to Mexico. | |
| Trips to Greece and to Arab countries. | Novel: Homo Faber |
| Love affair with German writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Divorce of his first marriage (). Lives partly in Rome. Max Frisch is a jury member in a contest for a new theater in Zurich (). | Biedermann und die Brandstifter first performed as a drama in Zurich, Max Frisch's first big success on stage. Georg-Büchner-Preis (, donated by the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Literature-Prize donated by the city of Zurich () and Charles-Veillon-Literaturpreis (). Andorra, a drama about racism, is performed in Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf (): Max Frisch's first international success. Honorary doctor by the Philipps-Universität Marburg (). Mein Name sei Gantenbein () |
| Max Frisch returns from Rome to Switzerland.
He buys a house in Berzona, a little village in southern Switzerland. He also stays in Berlin, Zurich and New York for some time. | Man's Freedom-Prize donated by the city of Jerusalem (); |
| Trip to the USSR: Moskow, Leningrad and Odessa as a guest of the Soviet Union's writers' association. Frisch meets Christa and Gerhard Wolf, writers from eastern Germany there. Death of Max Frisch's mother.Max frisch books Frisch also found himself featuring as a "character" in the literature of others. He was generally well regarded by the New York literary establishment: one commentator found him commendably free of "European arrogance". A characteristic pattern in Frisch's life was the way that periods of intense political engagement alternated with periods of retreat back to private concerns. The book centred on his love life, including both his own marriage with Marianne Oellers-Frisch and an affair that she had been having with the American writer Donald Barthelme. | Biografie: ein Spiel is first performed. |
| Max Frisch (and many other intellectuals) take sides with protesting students in Switzerland. | Erinnerungen an Brecht [Remembering Bert Brecht] () |
| Max Frisch is married to Marianne Oellers, divorced in | |
| Max Frisch visits communist China as a member of an official delegation of Western Germany lead by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt including business leaders and representatives of German culture. | Montauk, a story with autobiographical fragments about Max Frisch's "love life" is published: his most intimate book. |
| Trips to Japan () and to the USA (as a guest of Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, ). | Wilhelm Tell für die Schule, an attempt to de-mythologize Switzerland's national hero, is published in Tagebuch - This political diary, published in , reflects among other things Max Frisch's views on old age, death, democracy and rule of law (triggered by the student's revolt in ), as well as his impressions from the visits to the USSR and to the USA. Dienstbüchlein (), a critical review of Max Frisch's experience as a Swiss army soldier in during World War II. Grosser Schiller-Preis donated by Switzerland's Schiller foundation. |
| | Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels [price donated by German book vendors] in recognition of his "Beharrlichkeit beim Bekämpfen von Machtmißbrauch und ideologischer Demagogie" [perseverance in fighting abuse of power and ideological demagogy]. Edition of "Collected Works" |
| The Max Frisch archive is installed at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich in .
| Late works: Triptychon.
Drei szenische Bilder (published , first performed in Lausanne, ); Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (story about old age and loneliness, ); Blaubart (). Honorary doctor by Bard College/USA (); honorary doctor by the City University of New York () |
| Max Frisch dies in his flat in Zurich on April, 4th, after suffering from cancer for a long period. | |