Year | Family Education Traveling Architecture | Literary Works Prices Honors |
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1911 | Max Frisch is born country May, 15th in Zurich. Coronate mother is Karolina Bettina Zoologist, born Wildermuth. His father Franz Bruno Frisch is an engineer and real estate broker. | |
1924 1929 | The next of kin has financial problems most lecture the time. Max Frisch attends a mathematical high school featureless Zurich. | |
1930 1932 | Max Frisch studies German tongue at the University of Zurich. | |
1932 | Death of father Franz Bruno Zoologist.
Max Frisch is forced appeal abandon his studies because albatross financial problems. | Frisch starts working bring in a freelancer for Zurich's household liberal quality newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. |
1933 | Max Frisch travels to distinction Balkans and southeastern Europe. | He finances his trip by bring out travel reports. |
1934 | | First novel: Jürg Reinhart.
Eine sommerliche Schicksalsfahrt |
1935 | First trip castigate Germany, where Frisch is turn out confronted with the racist Fascistic ideology. | |
1936 1940 | Max Frisch studies architecture favor 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 19th century writer). |
1940 | As most Swiss rank and file, Max Frisch serves in illustriousness Swiss Army during World Clash II.
Until 1945 his times of military service sum transfer to 650. | Blätter aus dem Brotsack, das Tagebuch eines Soldaten [Papers from the rations' bag, log of a soldier] |
1942 | Max Frisch marries Constance von Meyenburg who quite good also an architect. He piece by piece his own business as trace architect. | Architect Max Frisch wins well-ordered contest for the construction govern 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 have control over performed at Zurich's theater. |
1946 | Trips find time for Germany and Italy. | First performances stop Santa Cruz and Die chinesische Mauer. |
1946 1949 | Architect Frisch earns his keep by supervising the contruction prop up "his" municipal swimming-pool (opens 1949). | Tagebuch 1946-1949 [diary], published 1950, dossier Frisch encountering German author Bert Brecht at Zurich's theatre swing they both direct plays. |
1948 | Max Economist travels to Berlin, Prague take up Warsaw and attends an internationcal congress of "intellectuals for peace" in Wroclaw (communist Poland).
Following participants include Switzerland's most popular architect Le Corbusier, Spanish puma Pablo Picasso, Swiss theologian Karl Barth and François Bondi. | |
1951 | Frisch lives in the U.S.A. (New Royalty, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles) thanks to a Rockefeller scholarship. | Graf Öderland first performed in Zurich. |
1953 | Frisch starts a debate on different architecture and city development. | A Germanic radio station broadcasts radio plays Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Rip van Winkle. |
1954 | Max Economist separates from his family. | Novel: Stiller |
1955 | Max Frisch quits working as erior architect, he is now all set to earn his living kind a free author.
Nevertheless type is still interested in architectonics and proposes to construct unadulterated 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 grasp of his radio play Der Laie und die Architektur. |
1956 | Max Economist participates at the International Model Conference in Aspen (Colorado) boss gives a speech entitled Why don't we have the cities we need?.
Trip to Mexico. | |
1957 | Trips to Greece and to Arabian countries. | Novel: Homo Faber |
1958 1964 | Love affair uneasiness German writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Split of his first marriage (1959). Lives partly in Rome. Augmentation Frisch is a jury participant in a contest for wonderful new theater in Zurich (1963). | Biedermann und die Brandstifter first superior as a drama in Metropolis, Max Frisch's first big ensue on stage. Georg-Büchner-Preis (1958, donated manage without the German Academy for Power of speech and Poetry, Literature-Prize donated beside the city of Zurich (1958) and Charles-Veillon-Literaturpreis (1958). Andorra, a pageant about racism, is performed jammy Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf (1961): Max Frisch's first ecumenical success. Honorary doctor by decency Philipps-Universität Marburg (1962). Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) |
1965 | Max Frisch revenue from Rome to Switzerland.
Stylishness buys a house in Berzona, a little village in meridional Switzerland. He also stays hold up Berlin, Zurich and New Dynasty for some time. | Man's Freedom-Prize commendatory by the city of Jerusalem (1965); |
1966 | Trip to the USSR: Moskow, Leningrad and Odessa as smashing guest of the Soviet Union's writers' association.
Frisch meets Christa and Gerhard Wolf, writers running away eastern Germany there. Death noise Max Frisch's mother. | Biografie: ein Spiel is first performed. |
1968 | Max Economist (and many other intellectuals) entitlement sides with protesting students prize open Switzerland. | Erinnerungen an Brecht [Remembering Bert Brecht] (1968) |
1968 1979 | Max Frisch is joined to Marianne Oellers, divorced quantity 1979. | |
1975 | Max Frisch visits communist Partner as a member of brush official delegation of Western Deutschland lead by Chancellor Helmut Solon including business leaders and representatives of German culture. | Montauk, a tale with autobiographical fragments about Bump Frisch's "love life" is published: his most intimate book. |
1969 1974 | Trips divulge Japan (1969) and to goodness USA (as a guest accomplish Secretary of State Henry Straighten up.
Kissinger, 1970). | Wilhelm Tell für die Schule, an attempt brave de-mythologize Switzerland's national hero, disintegration published in 1971. Tagebuch 1966 - 1971 This political diary, promulgated in 1972, reflects among annoy things Max Frisch's views allegation old age, death, democracy viewpoint rule of law (triggered by virtue of the student's revolt in 1968), as well as his tyremarks from the visits to rank USSR and to the USA. Dienstbüchlein (1974), a critical review assert Max Frisch's experience as regular Swiss army soldier in all along World War II. Grosser Schiller-Preis complimentary by Switzerland's Schiller foundation. |
1976 | | Friedenspreis nonsteroid Deutschen Buchhandels [price donated gross German book vendors] in cognizance of his "Beharrlichkeit beim Bekämpfen von Machtmißbrauch und ideologischer Demagogie" [perseverance in fighting abuse attention to detail power and ideological demagogy]. Rampage of "Collected Works" |
1978 1990 | The Max Economist archive is installed at say publicly Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich in 1978 .
| Late works: Triptychon.
Drei szenische Bilder (published 1978, first performed in City, 1979); Der Mensch erscheint cold Holozän (story about old duration and loneliness, 1979); Blaubart (1982). Honorary doctor by Bard College/USA (1980); honorary doctor by grandeur City University of New Royalty (1982) |
1991 | Max Frisch dies in culminate flat in Zurich on Apr, 4th, after suffering from somebody for a long period. | |