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Friedrich Dürrenmatt (German: [ˈfriːdrɪç ˈdʏrənˌmat] ⓘ; 5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II .
Friedrich Reinhold Dürrenmatt (* 5. Januar 1921 in Stalden im Emmental, 1933 mit der Ortschaft Gysenstein zu Konolfingen fusioniert; † 14. Dezember 1990 in Neuenburg; heimatberechtigt in Guggisberg) war ein Schweizer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Maler.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (born Jan. 5, 1921, Konolfingen, near Bern, Switz.—died Dec. 14, 1990, Neuchâtel) was a Swiss playwright, novelist, and essayist whose satiric, almost farcical tragicomic plays were central to the post-World War II revival of German theatre.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt wurde am 5. Januar 1921 in Konolfingen, einem Dorf im Kanton Bern, geboren. Der Vater, Reinhold Dürrenmatt, war bis 1935 Pfarrer dieser Gemeinde. Seine Kindheit verbrachte Friedrich Dürrenmatt in dem kleinen Ort, eine Zeit, die ihn prägte. Er selbst sagte: ” Ich bin kein Dorfschriftsteller.
The Swiss playwright and novelist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the son of the village pastor, was born in Konolfingen in the Emmental, in the canton of Bern, on 5 January 1921. Fritz, as he was known to family and friends alike, had his eyes set on a world beyond the village from an early age.
Biography. The son of a minister, Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen (canton of Berne, Emmental region) in 1921; he died in Neuchâtel, where he lived for 38 years, in 1990. His plays The Visit (1956) and The Physicists (1962) brought him his greatest international acclaim, together with the film adaptations of his detective novels ...
Portrait. Chronology (cf. detailed portrait) Friedrich Dürrenmatt: His Life and Oeuvre. Schematischer Plan von Konolfingen mit literarischen Motiven und Stoffen, um 1960. Dürrenmatt's literary works have been translated into over forty languages.
