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Max Frisch

Max FrischAKA Max Rudolf Frisch

Born: 15-May-1911
Birthplace: Zürich, Switzerland
Died: 4-Apr-1991
Location of death: Zürich, Switzerland
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: Switzerland
Executive summary: Homo Faber

Military service: Swiss Army (during WWII)

Father: Franz Bruno Frisch (architect, d. 1932)
Mother: Karolina Bettina WIldermuth
Girlfriend: Ingeborg Bachman

    University: University of Zürich (1930-32, dropped out)
    University: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (studied 1936-41)

    Georg Büchner Prize 1958
    Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1976

Author of books:
Tagebuch 1946–1949 (1950, journal)
Stiller (1954, novel, I'm Not Stiller)
Homo Faber (1957, novel)
Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964, novel)
Tagebuch 1966–1971 (1972, journal)
Dienstbüchlein (1974, novel)
Montauk: Eine Erzählung (1975, novel)
Tryptichon: Drei szenische Bilder (1978, novel)
Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979, novel)
Blaubart (1982, novel)

Wrote plays:
Nun singen sie wieder (1946)
Santa Cruz (1947)
Die chinesische Mauer (1947)
Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949)
Graf Öderland (1951)
Don Juan oder die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)
Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1958)
Andorra (1961)
Biografie (1967)



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