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Max Frisch

1911 - 1991

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Max Rudolf Frisch (German: [maks ˈfʁɪʃ] ; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Frisch has received more than 471,449 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Max Frisch is the 810th most popular writer (down from 686th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 65th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Writer.

Max Frisch is most famous for his novel "I'm Not Stiller" which was published in Germany in 1958. The novel is about a man who is unsure of his identity and is trying to find out who he is.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Max Frisch ranks 810 out of 7,302. Before him are Tatian, Karl Harrer, Jan Potocki, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Keyes, and Magtymguly Pyragy. After him are Dobrica Ćosić, John le Carré, Basava, Odysseas Elytis, Danilo Kiš, and Charles Maurras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Max Frisch ranks 37. Before him are William Alfred Fowler, Bernard Katz, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, William Howard Stein, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Ginger Rogers. After him are Odysseas Elytis, Trygve Haavelmo, Ernesto Sabato, John Archibald Wheeler, Herta Oberheuser, and Louise Bourgeois. Among people deceased in 1991, Max Frisch ranks 29. Before him are Oona O'Neill, Arno Breker, Margot Fonteyn, Henri Lefebvre, David Lean, and Natalia Ginzburg. After him are Gunnar Gren, Ragnar Granit, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Jean Tinguely, Martha Graham, and Claudio Arrau.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Max Frisch ranks 83 out of 1,015. Before him are Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Werner Arber (1929), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Félix Vallotton (1865), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938). After him are Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), Alfred Cortot (1877), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), Roger Federer (1981), and Mario Botta (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Max Frisch ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), Alejo Carpentier (1904), and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784). After him are Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Gottfried Keller (1819), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Blaise Cendrars (1887), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905).

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