MAX FRISCH, 79, NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT: - April 6, 1991
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Max Frisch, the Swiss novelist and playwright who focused on the predicament of man in modern society, died Thursday. He was 79.
He succumbed to cancer at his Zurich home after a long illness, said his son, Hans Peter Frisch. He settled in his native Zurich in 1983 after three years in New York, a city he liked because ''every invented story is possible there.''
Mr. Frisch, considered the dean of German-language literature, was one of the most influential writers in the post-World War II era. His works, including I Am Not Stiller and Man in the Holocene, were translated into 37 languages.
Andorra and The Firebugs, his best-known plays, became standard theater repertory in many countries. Like the late Bertolt Brecht, a close friend, he believed the stage should not allow the audience to escape into an illusion of reality.
Written in the tradition of German expressionism, the works dealt with the individual's search for an identity and his striving to cope with bigotry and totalitarianism.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Max Frisch, the Swiss novelist and playwright who focused on the predicament of man in modern society, died Thursday. He was 79.
He succumbed to cancer at his Zurich home after a long illness, said his son, Hans Peter Frisch. He settled in his native Zurich in 1983 after three years in New York, a city he liked because ''every invented story is possible there.''
Mr. Frisch, considered the dean of German-language literature, was one of the most influential writers in the post-World War II era. His works, including I Am Not Stiller and Man in the Holocene, were translated into 37 languages.
Andorra and The Firebugs, his best-known plays, became standard theater repertory in many countries. Like the late Bertolt Brecht, a close friend, he believed the stage should not allow the audience to escape into an illusion of reality.
Written in the tradition of German expressionism, the works dealt with the individual's search for an identity and his striving to cope with bigotry and totalitarianism.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
MAX FRISCH, 79, NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT: - April 6, 1991
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Max Frisch, the Swiss novelist and playwright who focused on the predicament of man in modern society, died Thursday. He was 79.
He succumbed to cancer at his Zurich home after a long illness, said his son, Hans Peter Frisch. He settled in his native Zurich in 1983 after three years in New York, a city he liked because ''every invented story is possible there.''
Mr. Frisch, considered the dean of German-language literature, was one of the most influential writers in the post-World War II era. His works, including I Am Not Stiller and Man in the Holocene, were translated into 37 languages.
Andorra and The Firebugs, his best-known plays, became standard theater repertory in many countries. Like the late Bertolt Brecht, a close friend, he believed the stage should not allow the audience to escape into an illusion of reality.
Written in the tradition of German expressionism, the works dealt with the individual's search for an identity and his striving to cope with bigotry and totalitarianism.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Max Frisch, the Swiss novelist and playwright who focused on the predicament of man in modern society, died Thursday. He was 79.
He succumbed to cancer at his Zurich home after a long illness, said his son, Hans Peter Frisch. He settled in his native Zurich in 1983 after three years in New York, a city he liked because ''every invented story is possible there.''
Mr. Frisch, considered the dean of German-language literature, was one of the most influential writers in the post-World War II era. His works, including I Am Not Stiller and Man in the Holocene, were translated into 37 languages.
Andorra and The Firebugs, his best-known plays, became standard theater repertory in many countries. Like the late Bertolt Brecht, a close friend, he believed the stage should not allow the audience to escape into an illusion of reality.
Written in the tradition of German expressionism, the works dealt with the individual's search for an identity and his striving to cope with bigotry and totalitarianism.
Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
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