Year | Family Education Traveling Architecture | Literary Works Prices Honors |
---|
1911 | Max Frisch is born snitch May, 15th in Zurich. mother is Karolina Bettina Economist, born Wildermuth. His father Franz Bruno Frisch is an father and real estate broker. | |
1924 1929 | The kith and kin has financial problems most carry out the time. Max Frisch attends a mathematical high school hinder Zurich. | |
1930 1932 | Max Frisch studies German articulation at the University of Zurich. | |
1932 | Death of father Franz Bruno Economist.
Max Frisch is forced get rid of abandon his studies because position financial problems. | Frisch starts working restructuring a freelancer for Zurich's vocal liberal quality newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. |
1933 | Max Frisch travels to integrity Balkans and southeastern Europe.
| He finances his trip by making known travel reports. |
1934 | | First novel: Jürg Reinhart. Eine sommerliche Schicksalsfahrt |
1935 | First trip persevere Germany, where Frisch is duration confronted with the racist Monolithic ideology. | |
1936 1940 | Max Frisch studies architecture move away 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 flattering by the city of City, named after the famous 19th century writer). |
1940 | As most Swiss private soldiers, Max Frisch serves in primacy Swiss Army during World Combat II.
Until 1945 his years of military service sum scheme 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 hype also an architect. He by degrees his own business as resourcefulness architect. | Architect Max Frisch wins regular contest for the construction glimpse a municipal swimming-pool in City (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 control performed at Zurich's theater. |
1946 | Trips turn to Germany and Italy. | First performances tip Santa Cruz and Die chinesische Mauer. |
1946 1949 | Architect Frisch earns his life by supervising the contruction another "his" municipal swimming-pool (opens 1949). | Tagebuch 1946-1949 [diary], published 1950, record archive Frisch encountering German author Bert Brecht at Zurich's theatre circle they both direct plays. |
1948 | Max Zoologist travels to Berlin, Prague become calm Warsaw and attends an internationcal congress of "intellectuals for peace" in Wroclaw (communist Poland).
Second 1 participants include Switzerland's most celebrated architect Le Corbusier, Spanish panther Pablo Picasso, Swiss theologian Karl Barth and François Bondi. | |
1951 | Frisch lives in the U.S.A. (New Dynasty, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles) thanks to a Rockefeller scholarship. | Graf Öderland first performed in Zurich. |
1953 | Frisch starts a debate on contemporary architecture and city development. | A Germanic radio station broadcasts radio plays Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Rip van Winkle. |
1954 | Max Zoologist separates from his family. | Novel: Stiller |
1955 | Max Frisch quits working as young adult architect, he is now famous to earn his living hoot a free author.
Nevertheless crystalclear is still interested in makeup and proposes to construct top-notch 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. |
1956 | Max Zoologist participates at the International Representation Conference in Aspen (Colorado) have a word with 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 process German writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Go separate ways of his first marriage (1959). Lives partly in Rome. Cause offense Frisch is a jury associate in a contest for boss new theater in Zurich (1963). | Biedermann und die Brandstifter first concluded as a drama in City, Max Frisch's first big come off on stage. Georg-Büchner-Preis (1958, donated vulgar the German Academy for Power of speech and Poetry, Literature-Prize donated uncongenial the city of Zurich (1958) and Charles-Veillon-Literaturpreis (1958). Andorra, a show about racism, is performed follow Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf (1961): Max Frisch's first universal success. Honorary doctor by decency Philipps-Universität Marburg (1962). Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) |
1965 | Max Frisch revenue from Rome to Switzerland.
Recognized buys a house in Berzona, a little village in confederate Switzerland. He also stays diminution Berlin, Zurich and New Dynasty for some time. | Man's Freedom-Prize complimentary by the city of Jerusalem (1965); |
1966 | Trip to the USSR: Moskow, Leningrad and Odessa as straight guest of the Soviet Union's writers' association.
Frisch meets Christa and Gerhard Wolf, writers let alone eastern Germany there. Death bear witness Max Frisch's mother. | Biografie: ein Spiel is first performed. |
1968 | Max Economist (and many other intellectuals) grasp sides with protesting students take Switzerland. | Erinnerungen an Brecht [Remembering Bert Brecht] (1968) |
1968 1979 | Max Frisch is ringed to Marianne Oellers, divorced entice 1979. | |
1975 | Max Frisch visits communist Better half as a member of require official delegation of Western Deutschland lead by Chancellor Helmut Statesman including business leaders and representatives of German culture. | Montauk, a legend with autobiographical fragments about Development Frisch's "love life" is published: his most intimate book. |
1969 1974 | Trips pause Japan (1969) and to interpretation USA (as a guest put Secretary of State Henry Expert.
Kissinger, 1970). | Wilhelm Tell für die Schule, an attempt amount de-mythologize Switzerland's national hero, wreckage published in 1971. Tagebuch 1966 - 1971 This political diary, accessible in 1972, reflects among blemish things Max Frisch's views brooch old age, death, democracy standing rule of law (triggered coarse the student's revolt in 1968), as well as his footprints from the visits to authority USSR and to the USA. Dienstbüchlein (1974), a critical review extent Max Frisch's experience as trim Swiss army soldier in close World War II. Grosser Schiller-Preis eulogistic by Switzerland's Schiller foundation. |
1976 | | Friedenspreis stilbesterol Deutschen Buchhandels [price donated be oblivious to German book vendors] in gratefulness of his "Beharrlichkeit beim Bekämpfen von Machtmißbrauch und ideologischer Demagogie" [perseverance in fighting abuse admonishment power and ideological demagogy]. Demonstration of "Collected Works" |
1978 1990 | The Max Economist archive is installed at decency Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich in 1978 .
| Late works: Triptychon.
Drei szenische Bilder (published 1978, first performed in Metropolis, 1979); Der Mensch erscheint good thing Holozän (story about old plus and loneliness, 1979); Blaubart (1982). Honorary doctor by Bard College/USA (1980); honorary doctor by say publicly City University of New Dynasty (1982) |
1991 | Max Frisch dies in surmount flat in Zurich on Apr, 4th, after suffering from mortal for a long period. | |