playwright
and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II
. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity
, individuality, responsibility
, morality and political commitment. His use of irony
is a significant feature of his post-war publications.
Frisch was a member of the Gruppe Olten
.
Max Rudolf Frisch was born in 1911 in Zürich
; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect
) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth).
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.
The horror of uncreative solitude.....
How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
Cause and effect are never divided between two people
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.
My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.
Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...