AKA 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 B�chner 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)
Dienstb�chlein (1974, novel)
Montauk: Eine Erz�hlung (1975, novel)
Tryptichon: Drei szenische Bilder (1978, novel)
Der Mensch erscheint im Holoz�n (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 �derland (1951)
Don Juan oder die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)
Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1958)
Andorra (1961)
Biografie (1967)

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