A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch

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One of the most influential German-language writers of the late twentieth century, Max Frisch not only has canonical status in Europe, but has also been well received in the English-speaking world. English translationsof his works are available in multiple recent editions. Frisch was a recipient of both the B�chner Award , and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ; his body of work explores questions of identity, alienation, and ethics in modern society. He is best known for the plays Andorra , a seminal drama that examines indifference and mass psychology in the context of the Shoah and continues to be produced by theaters around the world, and Biedermann und die Brandstifter , another worldwide success and one of the most frequently used texts in advanced undergraduate German courses in the United States, as well as for his novels Stiller , Homo Faber , and Mein Name sei Gantenbein . Yet Frisch has only recently begun to receive the sustained scholarly attention he deserves: neither a comprehensive introductory volume to nor a collaborative handbook on the works of Frisch is available in English, a situation that this volume redresses. Contributors: R�gine Battiston, Klaus van den Berg, Olaf Berwald, Amanda Charitina Boyd, C�line Letawe, Walter Obschlager, John D. Pizer, Beatrice Sandberg, Caroline Schaumann, Frank Schaumann, Walter Schmitz, Margit Unser, Daniel de Vin, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Paul A. Youngman. Olaf Berwald is Professor of German and Chair of the Departmentof Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University.