Thomas Strassle Author & Editor

Max Frisch (1911 91) was one of the giants of twentieth-century German literature, achieving fame as a novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist. He lived primarily in Switzerland. He received many German and international literature prizes, including the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. Thomas Strassle is a lecturer in the German department and the department of general and comparative literature at the University of Zurich. Margit Unser is the director of the Max Frisch Archive at ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich. Wieland Hoban is a British composer who lives in Germany. He has translated several works from German, including many by Theodor W. Adorno.