Max Rudolf Frisch was born in 1911 in Zürich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). He was the second child in the family. He had a brother Franz and a stepsister Emma Elisabeth (from the first marriage of his father).
During these years he started to write his first plays. He wanted to stage them but nothing came out of it. Also he made the acquaintance of Werner Coninx, with whom he had a long-lasting friendship.
Nun singen sie wieder (1945)
Santa Cruz (1947)
Die Chinesische Mauer (1947, The Chinese Wall)
Als der Krieg zu Ende war (1949, When the War Was Over)
Graf Öderland (1951)
Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1953, Firebugs)
Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (1953)
Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz (1956)
Andorra (1961)
Biografie (1967)
Tryptichon. Drei szenische Bilder (1978)
Jonas und sein Veteran (1989)
I'm Not Stiller (1954, Stiller)
Homo Faber (1957)
Gantenbein (1964, Mein Name sei Gantenbein, also known as A Wilderness of Mirrors')
Dienstbüchlein (1974)
Montauk (1975)
Man in the Holocene (1979, Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän)
Bluebeard (1982, Blaubart)
Wilhelm Tell: a School Text (1971, Wilhelm Tell für die Schule, published in Fiction Magazine 1978)
Max Frisch sympathized with social democrats.
When he worked as an architect at William Dunkel's studio, he met Gertrude Anna Constanze von Meyenburg. They got married on July 30, 1942. She gave birth to two girls Ursula (1943) and Charlotte (1949) and a boy Hans Peter (1944). After 17 years of marriage they got divorced.
In 1962 fifty-one-year-old Max Frisch met young and beautiful Marianne Oellers, she was a twenty-eight-year-old student. In 1964 they rented a flat in Rome, a year later they moved to Berzona. They married in 1968.
