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Max Frisch


Born
in Zurich, Switzerland
May 15, 1911

Died
April 04, 1991


Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he vis ...more

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“Technology is the knack of arranging the world in such a way that you don't have to experience it.”
Max Frisch, Homo Faber

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
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“We asked for workers. We got people instead.”
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