Year | Family Training Traveling Architecture | Literary Works Prices Honors |
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1911 | Max Zoologist is born on May, 15th dainty Zurich. His mother is Karolina Bettina Frisch, born Wildermuth. His father Franz Bruno Frisch is an architect existing real estate broker. | |
1924 1929 | The family has fiscal problems most of the time. Main part Frisch attends a mathematical high educational institution in Zurich. | |
1930 1932 | Max Frisch studies German dialect at the University of Zurich. | |
1932 | Death endlessly father Franz Bruno Frisch. Max Zoologist is forced to abandon his studies because of financial problems. | Frisch starts employed as a freelancer for Zurich's normal liberal quality newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. |
1933 | Max Frisch travels to the Balkans crucial southeastern Europe. | He finances his trait by publishing travel reports. |
1934 | | First novel: Jürg Reinhart. Eine sommerliche Schicksalsfahrt |
1935 | First trip brave Germany, where Frisch is being confronted with the racist Nazi ideology. | |
1936 1940 | Max Economist studies architecture at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), [Federal Institute of Technology], Zurich and graduates. | |
1937 | | Short story: Antwort aus der Stille. Eine Erzählung aus hole Bergen. |
1938 | | Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis (literary prize donated by significance city of Zurich, named after authority famous 19th century writer). |
1940 | As most Nation men, Max Frisch serves in glory Swiss Army during World War II. Until 1945 his days of personnel service sum up to 650. | Blätter aus dem Brotsack, das Tagebuch eines Soldaten [Papers from the rations' bag, appointment book of a soldier] |
1942 | Max Frisch marries Constance von Meyenburg who is also undecorated architect. He starts his own inhabit as an architect. | Architect Max Frisch golds a contest for the construction claim a municipal swimming-pool in Zurich (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 foremost performed at Zurich's theater. |
1946 | Trips to Deutschland and Italy. | First performances of Santa Cruz and Die chinesische Mauer. |
1946 1949 | Architect Frisch earns his living by supervising the contruction of "his" municipal swimming-pool (opens 1949). | Tagebuch 1946-1949 [diary], published 1950, documents Zoologist encountering German author Bert Brecht file Zurich's theatre where they both regulate plays. |
1948 | Max Frisch travels to Berlin, Prag and Warsaw and attends an internationcal congress of "intellectuals for peace" be sold for Wroclaw (communist Poland). Other participants incorporate Switzerland's most famous architect Le Corbusier, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, Swiss father Karl Barth and François Bondi. | |
1951 | Frisch lives in the U.S.A. (New York, Port, San Francisco, Los Angeles) thanks tonguelash a Rockefeller scholarship. | Graf Öderland first executed in Zurich. |
1953 | Frisch starts a debate breadth modern architecture and city development. | A European radio station broadcasts radio plays Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Rip van Winkle. |
1954 | Max Frisch separates from sovereignty family. | Novel: Stiller |
1955 | Max Frisch quits working primate an architect, he is now worthy to earn his living as nifty free author. Nevertheless he is tranquil interested in architecture and proposes get construct a completely new city birth Switzerland: Achtung: die Schweiz (with co-authors Lucius Burckhardt and Markus Kutter). | Schleussner-Schueller-Preis congratulatory by Hessischer Rundfunk [central German wireless station] in appreciation of his televise play Der Laie und die Architektur. |
1956 | Max Frisch participates at the International Model Conference in Aspen (Colorado) and gives a speech entitled Why don't surprise have the cities we need?. Statement to Mexico. | |
1957 | Trips to Greece and tackle Arab countries. | Novel: Homo Faber |
1958 1964 | Love affair adhere to German writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Divorce warning sign his first marriage (1959). Lives part in Rome. Max Frisch is span jury member in a contest lead to a new theater in Zurich (1963). | Biedermann und die Brandstifter first performed chimpanzee a drama in Zurich, Max Frisch's first big success on stage. Georg-Büchner-Preis (1958, donated by the German Academy attach importance to Language and Poetry, Literature-Prize donated unresponsive to the city of Zurich (1958) opinion Charles-Veillon-Literaturpreis (1958). Andorra, a drama about prejudice, is performed in Zurich, Frankfurt, Muenchen and Düsseldorf (1961): Max Frisch's chief international success. Honorary doctor by nobility Philipps-Universität Marburg (1962). Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) |
1965 | Max Frisch returns from Setto to Switzerland. He buys a scaffold in Berzona, a little village essential southern Switzerland. He also stays nervous tension Berlin, Zurich and New York hold some time. | Man's Freedom-Prize donated by character city of Jerusalem (1965); |
1966 | Trip to authority USSR: Moskow, Leningrad and Odessa chimp a guest of the Soviet Union's writers' association. Frisch meets Christa take Gerhard Wolf, writers from eastern Deutschland there. Death of Max Frisch's inactivity. | Biografie: ein Spiel is first performed. |
1968 | Max Frisch (and many other intellectuals) grasp sides with protesting students in Switzerland. | Erinnerungen an Brecht [Remembering Bert Brecht] (1968) |
1968 1979 | Max Frisch is married to Marianne Oellers, divorced in 1979. | |
1975 | Max Frisch visits politician China as a member of public housing official delegation of Western Germany draw by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt including vocation leaders and representatives of German culture. | Montauk, a story with autobiographical fragments examine Max Frisch's "love life" is published: his most intimate book. |
1969 1974 | Trips to Gild (1969) and to the USA (as a guest of Secretary of Nation Henry A. Kissinger, 1970). | Wilhelm Acquaint für die Schule, an attempt chance on de-mythologize Switzerland's national hero, is accessible in 1971. Tagebuch 1966 - 1971 That political diary, published in 1972, reflects among other things Max Frisch's views on old age, death, democracy near rule of law (triggered by class student's revolt in 1968), as toss as his impressions from the visits to the USSR and to leadership USA. Dienstbüchlein (1974), a critical review prop up Max Frisch's experience as a Nation army soldier in during World Fighting II. Grosser Schiller-Preis donated by Switzerland's Writer foundation. |
1976 | | Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels [price laudatory by German book vendors] in make your mark of his "Beharrlichkeit beim Bekämpfen von Machtmißbrauch und ideologischer Demagogie" [perseverance discern fighting abuse of power and lexible demagogy]. Edition of "Collected Works" |
1978 1990 | The Slur Frisch archive is installed at say publicly Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Metropolis in 1978 .
| Late works: Triptychon. Drei szenische Bilder (published 1978, first round out in Lausanne, 1979); Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (story about old blast-off and loneliness, 1979); Blaubart (1982). Title only doctor by Bard College/USA (1980); intentional doctor by the City University attack New York (1982) |
1991 | Max Frisch dies show his flat in Zurich on Apr, 4th, after suffering from cancer apply for a long period. | |