Max Frisch

Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of the German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of personal identity, morality and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications.

List of works

Novels

• Stiller (1954, I'm Not Stiller)
• Homo faber (1957)
• Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964, A Wilderness of Mirrors)
• Erinnerungen an Brecht (1968)
• Dienstbüchlein (1974)
• Montauk (1975)
• Tryptichon. Drei szenische Bilder (1978)
• Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979, Man in the Holocene )
• Blaubart (1982, Bluebeard )

Journals

• Blätter aus dem Brotsack (1939)
• Tagebuch 1946-1949 (1950)
• Tagebuch 1966-1971 (1972)

Dramatic works

• Nun singen sie wieder (1945)
• Santa Cruz (1947)
• Die Chinesische Mauer (1947, The Chinese Wall)
• Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949, When the War Was Over)
• Graf Öderland (1951)
• Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1953), The Firebugs (US)/The Fire Raisers (UK)
• Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)
• Andorra (1961)
• Biografie (1967)
• Jonas und sein Veteran (1989)