ABSTRACT
Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland on May15, 1911. His parents were the architect Franz Bruno Frisch, and Karolina Bettina Frisch, born Wildermuth. After his school years he studied German language and literature, art history, and philosophy at Zurich University for three years (1931-33). He did not, however, complete his degree, but started working as a journalist for various newspapers, for example, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In 1934 his first novel, Jürg Reinhart, was published.1 In 1936 he began studying architecture, and after completing his studies in 1941 he worked as an architect, married, had a child, and wrote several literary texts on the conflict between bourgeois and aesthetic existence.
