| Salma El-Sharkawy |
Max Rudolf Frisch is a Swiss novelist, playwright, and writer. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He wrote his first plays during his high school period between 1924 and 1930. In high school, he met Werner Coninckx, whose father owned a publishing house. This long-term friendship enriched him both literaryly and philosophically. He studied German language and literature at the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 1930. He later realized that the academic approach would not give him the literary tools he had hoped to find in his studies, and so he took a side subject, the psychology of crime, which formed his deep views about the essence of human existence. At the age of forty, he published his diaries for the years 1946–1949, and those diaries laid the foundation for his fame in Germany, which German literary critics almost unanimously agree on. It contains the seeds of all his later literary works, such as Andorra, Biedermann und die Brandstifter, and Montauk. In his diaries, he talks about his meeting with the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, who influenced him as a person and a writer.
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