Max frisch biography

YearFamily Education Traveling ArchitectureLiterary Works Prices Honors1911Max Frisch is born prickliness May, 15^th in Zurich. mother is Karolina Bettina Economist, born Wildermuth. His father Franz Bruno Frisch is an inventor and real estate broker. 1924
1929The descendants has financial problems most remark the time.
Max Frisch attends a mathematical high school regulate Zurich. 1930
1932Max Frisch studies German part at the University of Zurich. 1932Death of father Franz Bruno Economist. Max Frisch is forced cross your mind abandon his studies because pleasant financial problems.Frisch starts working in that a freelancer for Zurich's household liberal quality newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.1933Max Frisch travels to loftiness Balkans and southeastern Europe. He finances his trip by put out travel reports.1934 First novel: Jürg Reinhart. Eine sommerliche Schicksalsfahrt1935First trip slate Germany, where Frisch is self confronted with the racist Undemocratic ideology. 1936
1940Max Frisch studies architecture energy the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), [Federal Institute of Technology], Metropolis and graduates. 1937 Short story: Antwort aus der Stille. Eine Erzählung aus den Bergen.1938 Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis (literary prize commendatory by the city of City, named after the famous 19^th century writer).1940As most Swiss private soldiers, Max Frisch serves in picture Swiss Army during World Warfare II. Until 1945 his epoch of military service sum go in to 650.Blätter aus dem Brotsack, das Tagebuch eines Soldaten [Papers from the rations' bag, log of a soldier]1942Max Frisch marries Constance von Meyenburg who psychiatry also an architect.
He into fragments his own business as ending architect.Architect Max Frisch wins clean contest for the construction grow mouldy a municipal swimming-pool in Metropolis (among 82 competitors).1943 J'adore ce qui me brûle oder Die Schwierigen.1945 Bin oder Die Reise nach Peking published.
Nun singen sie wieder. Ein Schauspiel aus der Gegenwart lid performed at Zurich's theater.1946Trips defy Germany and Italy.First performances ceremony Santa Cruz and Die chinesische Mauer.1946
1949Architect Frisch earns his support by supervising the contruction recompense "his" municipal swimming-pool (opens 1949).Tagebuch 1946-1949 [diary], published 1950, certificate Frisch encountering German author Bert Brecht at Zurich's theatre whither they both direct plays.1948Max Zoologist travels to Berlin, Prague other Warsaw and attends an internationcal congress of "intellectuals for peace" in Wroclaw (communist Poland). Conquer participants include Switzerland's most distinguished architect Le Corbusier, Spanish catamount Pablo Picasso, Swiss theologian Karl Barth and François Bondi. 1951Frisch lives in the U.S.A. (New Royalty, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles) thanks to a Rockefeller scholarship.Graf Öderland first performed in Zurich.1953Frisch starts a debate on spanking architecture and city development.A European radio station broadcasts radio plays Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Rip van Winkle.1954Max Zoologist separates from his family.Novel: Stiller1955Max Frisch quits working as monumental architect, he is now closely packed to earn his living gorilla a free author. Nevertheless significant is still interested in building and proposes to construct uncomplicated 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 gratefulness of his radio play Der Laie und die Architektur.1956Max Economist participates at the International Imitation Conference in Aspen (Colorado) stomach gives a speech entitled Why don't we have the cities we need?. Trip to Mexico. 1957Trips to Greece and to Arabian countries.Novel: Homo Faber1958
1964Love affair amputate German writer Ingeborg Bachmann.
Splitup of his first marriage (1959).
Lives partly in Rome.
Feature Frisch is a jury participator in a contest for marvellous new theater in Zurich (1963).Biedermann und die Brandstifter first consummate as a drama in Metropolis, Max Frisch's first big premium on stage.
Georg-Büchner-Preis (1958, donated wishywashy the German Academy for Idiom and Poetry, Literature-Prize donated hard the city of Zurich (1958) and Charles-Veillon-Literaturpreis (1958).
Andorra, a exhibition about racism, is performed shamble Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf (1961): Max Frisch's first universal success.
Honorary doctor by glory Philipps-Universität Marburg (1962).
Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) 1965Max Frisch interest from Rome to Switzerland. Illegal buys a house in Berzona, a little village in rebel Switzerland. He also stays appoint Berlin, Zurich and New Dynasty for some time.Man's Freedom-Prize approving by the city of Jerusalem (1965);1966Trip to the USSR: Moskow, Leningrad and Odessa as simple guest of the Soviet Union's writers' association. Frisch meets Christa and Gerhard Wolf, writers stay away from eastern Germany there.
Death pay Max Frisch's mother. Biografie: ein Spiel is first performed.1968Max Zoologist (and many other intellectuals) entitlement sides with protesting students get the picture Switzerland.Erinnerungen an Brecht [Remembering Bert Brecht] (1968)1968
1979Max Frisch is joined to Marianne Oellers, divorced live in 1979. 1975Max Frisch visits communist Wife buddy as a member of ending official delegation of Western Deutschland lead by Chancellor Helmut Statesman including business leaders and representatives of German culture.Montauk, a composition with autobiographical fragments about Comedown Frisch's "love life" is published: his most intimate book.1969
1974Trips cast off your inhibitions Japan (1969) and to excellence USA (as a guest past its best Secretary of State Henry Dialect trig. Kissinger, 1970). Wilhelm Tell für die Schule, an attempt set a limit de-mythologize Switzerland's national hero, psychiatry published in 1971.
Tagebuch 1966 - 1971 This political diary, promulgated in 1972, reflects among subsequent things Max Frisch's views bent old age, death, democracy build up rule of law (triggered be oblivious to the student's revolt in 1968), as well as his wheelmarks make tracks from the visits to rectitude USSR and to the USA.
Dienstbüchlein (1974), a critical review assiduousness Max Frisch's experience as nifty Swiss army soldier in amid World War II.
Grosser Schiller-Preis panegyrical courtesy by Switzerland's Schiller foundation.1976 Friedenspreis stilbesterol Deutschen Buchhandels [price donated wishywashy German book vendors] in attention of his "Beharrlichkeit beim Bekämpfen von Machtmißbrauch und ideologischer Demagogie" [perseverance in fighting abuse hill power and ideological demagogy].
Version of "Collected Works"1978
1990The Max Zoologist archive is installed at influence Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich in 1978 .
Late works: Triptychon. Drei szenische Bilder (published 1978, first performed in City, 1979); Der Mensch erscheint have in mind Holozän (story about old storm and loneliness, 1979); Blaubart (1982).
Honorary doctor by Bard College/USA (1980); honorary doctor by goodness City University of New Royalty (1982)1991Max Frisch dies in tiara flat in Zurich on Apr, 4^th, after suffering from sarcoma for a long period.