FRISCH, MAX

1911–91, Swiss writer. He obtained a diploma in architecture in 1941, and his designs included the Zürich Recreation Park. After 1955 he became recognized as one of Europe's major literary voices. In the novels Stiller (1954, tr. I'm Not Stiller, 1958), Homo faber (1957, tr. 1959), and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964, tr. A Wilderness of Mirrors, 1965), Frisch was essentially concerned with the human search for personal identity. His best-known plays are Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1953, tr. The Firebugs, 1963), and Andorra (1961, tr. 1962), a study of mass psychology.

See his autobiographical Montauk (tr. 1976), his Sketchbooks (1974, 1977); studies by M. Butler (1983) and W. Koepke (1990); biographies by U. W. Weisstein (1967) and C. Petersen (tr. 1972).

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Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel: A Study of Novels by Johnson, Frisch, Wolf, Becker, and Grass
Book by Chloe E. M. Paver; Oxford University, 1999
Subjects: Fantasy In Literature, German Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...3. MAX FRISCH: MEIN NAME SEI GANTENBEIN...Das dfitte Buch uber Achim , Max Frisch Mein Name sei Gantenbein , Christa...Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1961 ; Max Frisch, Mein Name sei Gantenbein Frankfurt...
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The Chinese Wall: (Die Chinesische Mauer)
Book by Max Frisch, James L. Rosenberg; Hill and Wang, 1961
Subjects: Drama
...Chinesische Mauer A Farce by MAX FRISCH Translated by JAMES L. ROSENBERG...Colonial Press, Clinton, Mass. MAX FRISCH Born in 1911 in Zurich and...lived through two world wars , Max Frisch has been for some fifteen years...
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Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics
Book by Mathias Frisch; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Electrodynamics--Philosophy
...of Classical Electrodynamics Mathias Frisch OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Inconsistency...Classical Electrodynamics Mathias Frisch INCONSISTENCY, ASYMMETRY, AND NON-LOCALITY...of Classical Electrodynamics Mathias Frisch OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2005...
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Countdown to Statehood: Palestinian State Formation in the West Bank and Gaza
Book by Hillel Frisch; State University of New York Press, 1998
Subjects: Nationalism--Palestine, Palestinian Arabs--Politics And Government
...making, and efficient execution in both the military and political wings of the organization. Instead of the characteristics Max Weber imputed to organizations, however, the PLO was characterized by a dominant party Fath that enjoyed a plurality in a...
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Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton
Book by Morton J. Frisch, Alexander Hamilton; American Enterprises Institute for Public Policy Research, 1985
Subjects: United States--Politics And Government--1775-1783, United States--Politics And Government--1783-1809
...Notes 1. "N. P. Trist Memoranda, September 27, 1834," in The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 , ed. Max Farrand, 4 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966 , vol. 3, p. 534. 2. See Alexander Hamilton...
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Murder, He Wrote: the Fate of the Woman in Max Frisch's Mein Name Sei Gantenbein
Journal article by Eva B. Revesz; German Quarterly, Vol. 78, 2005
Subjects: Frisch, Max, Literary criticism, Novels, Psychoanalysis, Sexual behavior, Writing
...Wrote: the Fate of the Woman in Max Frischs Mein Name Sei Gantenbein by...Zur Bedeutung von Werk und Person Max Frischs in Ingeborg Bachmanns Todesarten...as Bachmanns coming to terms with Max Frisch both personally and professionally...
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A Weekend at Montauk
Journal article by Sven Birkerts; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 81, 2005
Subjects: Frisch, Max, Literary criticism, Memory, Personal relationships, Psychology, Writers
...of my addiction. Max Frischs Montauk, packed with...self-portrait, and Frisch uses Lynns questions...one-way procedure. "MAX, ARE YOU JEALOUS...braces me to find Frisch facing this same thing...are of one another, Max and Lynn know that...
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Personality, Politics and the Price of Justice: Ephraim Frisch, San Antonio's "Radical" Rabbi
Journal article by Karl Preuss; American Jewish History, Vol. 85, 1997
Subjects: Rabbis--Political activity, Reform Judaism--Political aspects, San Antonio, Texas--History
...close ties to the Cohen family in Galveston. In San Antonio Frischs board of directors at Temple Beth-El felt leery when their rabbi...the anti-Semitic threat was to assimilate even more.(18) Rabbi Max Heller encountered similar assimilationist and conformist trends...
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Man the Maker: Max Frisch's Homo Faber and the Daedalus Myth
Journal article by Peter C. Thornton; Germanic Review, Vol. 70, 1995
Subjects: Germanic Philology
Man the Maker: Max Frischs Homo faber and the Daedalus Myth...faber volans"--the very mode in which Max Frischs Walter Faber is discovered in the...which held a special significance for Max Frisch in the years leading up to Homo faber...
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Iterative and Recursive Estimation in Structural Nonadaptive Models
Journal article by Sergio Pastorello, Valentin Patilea, Eric Renault; Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 21, 2003
Subjects: Economics--Research
...number of iterations, theta.sup.(p+1) = arg max Q.sub.Ttheta, lambda(theta.sup.(p)) = theta...nothing else than the oracle extremum (arg max) estimator defined through the simple criterion...mentioned , a typical assumption for arg max estimation with limit criterion theta right...
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The Invention of Hate
Magazine article by Jessica Winter; The Village Voice, Vol. 47, April 23, 2002
Subjects: Frisch, Max, Leivick, H, New York City New York, Theater
...Metaphor; Prague Pogroms ANDORRA By Max Frisch Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher...dynamic aspect. In Swiss playwright Max Frischs allegory of genocidal bigotry in...improvisation -and so is prejudice, Frisch tells us. This wasnt news even when...
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A Troubled Life in Science
Magazine article by J. W. Grove; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 108, Spring 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Book)--Reviews, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Book)--Reviews
...friends. Her nephew the physicist Otto Frisch, joined her there, where he found her...1939, the first jointly by Meitner and Frisch, proposing "a new type of nuclear reaction," and the second by Frisch alone providing experimental proof that...
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Instrument Dealers and Music Shops
Magazine article; Strings, Vol. 18, July 2003
...Reconditioned bows and instrument repairs. Gary Mohler. Rodney D. Mohr See main listing in Makers of Instruments and Bows. Max Moller Zoon Willemsparkweg 15, 1071 GN Amsterdam, Netherlands. Phone: (31) 20-662-5425. Fax: (31) 20-664-8236. Email: info...
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It's a Tragedy
Magazine article by Joe Aveline; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2008
...Theatre Royal, Stratford, following Joan Littlewoods departure. The first presentation was a good but not exciting piece by Max Frisch. The second was to be three Euripides plays to run in repertoire through the autumn. I was to design the lighting and...
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David Gordon
Magazine article by Roger Copeland; American Theatre, Vol. 13, July 1996
Subjects: Dramatists--Technique, Gordon, David--Technique
...Tribune identified Gordon when he directed a production of Max Frischs The Firebugs at the Guthrie Theater last fall: "a New...the least bit odd that Gordon recently staged a play by Frisch or that he directed and choreographed a dementedly zany...
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Still Frisch and Incendiary; Caption Kicker: Will Keen (Biedermann), Zawe Ashton (Anna), Jacqueline Defferary (Babette) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Eisenring)
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 7, 2007
...bracingly strange and sinister worldof Max Frischs The Arsonists, a mid- 20th-century...fearful to face glaring reality: Frisch took hisnegative inspiration from...bourgeois guilt and moral myopia.Frischs prosperous crooked businessman, Will...
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First Night Review
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 7, 2007
...Night Review. Byline: Quentin Letts THE ARSONISTS BY MAX FRISCH ROYAL COURT THEATRE, LONDON STRONG play, rotten timing...should forgive the Court its unhappy gaffe, however, for Max Frischscelebrated play - here in a new translation by Alistair...
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Culture: One Big Bang Is Quite Enough, Even for Arsonists; Theatre JOHN SLIM'S AMATEUR THEATRE
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 10, 2008
...Crescent Theatre has sent me a note about The Arsonists, by Max Frisch, describing it as a parable about accommodating the very...that far, the Crescent is hoping to open its season with Max Frischs play about a businessman who is not only happy to give...
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Letters in the Editor's Mailbag
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 22, 2004
Subjects: Bush, George W.
...CARTER Eugene Was letter tongue in cheek? I presume Deborah Frischs letter on July 13 is an attempt at "tongue in cheek" and not...being your role models, regardless of your political bias? MAX KESSLER Eugene Moore distorts Bush reaction A lot of hot...
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Road Pricing for London Is Coming
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 6, 2007
Subjects: Pricing
...writers including Lucy Caldwell and D C Moore, as well as international work such as new translations of Eugene Ionesco and Max Frisch. This is a welcome return to the Royal Courts roots, and to the brave and experimental ethos that made it so important...
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Frisch, Max
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRISCH, MAX 1911 91, Swiss writer. He obtained a diploma in architecture in 1941...and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964, tr. A Wilderness of Mirrors, 1965), Frisch was essentially concerned with the human search for personal identity. His...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Organization Derek H. R. Barton Odd Hassel Murray Gell-Mann Max Delbruck Alfred D. Hershey Salvador B. Luria Samuel Beckett...Brian D. Josephson Konrad Lorenz Nikolaas Tinbergen Karl von Frisch Patrick White 1974 Sean MacBride Eisaku Sato Paul J. Flory...
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German Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...gradual literary resurgence, with the social and critical novels of authors like Heinrich Boll , Gunter Grass , and Max Frisch gaining prominance. Two important centers of literary activity were Group 47, organized by Hans Werner Richter in Germany...
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Drama, Western
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Playwrights whose works can be roughly classed as belonging to the theater of the absurd are Jean Genet (French), Max Frisch and Friedrich Durrenmatt (Swiss), Fernando Arrabal (Spanish), and the early plays of Edward Albee (American...
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Physics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...discrepancy, known as the ultraviolet catastrophe, was solved by Max Plancks quantum theory (1900). In 1905, Einstein used the quantum...Strassmann (1938) and its explanation by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch provided a means for the large-scale conversion of mass into...
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