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Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II.
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Max Rudolf Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss playwright and novelist, one of the most prominent contemporary German-language writers. Born May 15, 1911, in Zürich, Frisch studied at the University of Zürich and then worked as a journalist and an architect.

Among Frisch's more notable plays is The Chinese Wall (1946; trans. 1961), an experimental farce that mixes ancient with modern settings and characters and addresses self-destructiveness. Next appeared Als der Krieg zu Ende war (When the War Was Over, 1949). Perhaps his best-known plays are Andorra (1961; trans. 1962), a tragic parable on the effects of anti-Semitism, and the farce The Firebugs (1958; trans. 1962).

I'm Not Stiller (1954; trans. 1958), a novel about an intellectual struggling with his identity, is regarded by some as Frisch's finest work. Other novels include Homo Faber (1957; trans. 1959), A Wilderness of Mirrors (1964; trans. 1965), Man in the Holocene (1979; trans. 1980), and Bluebeard (1982; trans. 1983). Frisch's diaries have been published as Sketchbook 1946-1949 (1965; trans. 1977) and Sketchbook 1966-1971 (1972; trans. 1974).

Frisch died in Zürich, April 4, 1991.