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One of the most influential German-language writers of the late twentieth century, Max Frisch (1911-1991) not only has canonical status in Europe, but has also been well received in the English-speaking world. English translations of his works are available in multiple recent editions. Frisch was a recipient of both the Büchner Award (1958), and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1976); his body of work explores questions of identity, alienation, and ethics in modern society. He is best known for the plays 'Andorra' (1961), 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' (1958), another worldwide success and one of the most frequently used texts in advanced undergraduate German courses in the US, as well as for his novels 'Stiller' (1954), 'Homo Faber' (1957), and 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein' (1964). 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: Régine Battiston, Olaf Berwald, Amanda Charitina Boyd, Daniel de Vin, Céline Letawe, Walter Obschlager, John D. Pizer, Beate Sandberg, Caroline Schaumann, Frank Schaumann, Walter Schmitz, Margit Unser, Klaus van den Berg, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Paul A. Youngman. Olaf Berwald is Associate Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota Introduction: Max Frisch in the twenty-first century / Olaf Berwald -- Max Frisch's early plays / Walter Schmitz -- Spielraum in Max Frisch's Graf Oderland and Don Juan: transparency as mode of performance / Klaus van den Berg -- Max Frisch's Biedermann und Die Brandstifter and Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz / Amanda Charitina Boyd -- Max Frisch's Andorra: balancing act between pattern and particular / Caroline Schaumann and Frank Schaumann -- Eternal recurrence in life and death in Max Frisch's late plays / John D. Pizer -- Max Frisch's early fiction / Margit Unser -- From life to literature: Max Frisch's Tagebucher / Celine Letawe -- "Writing in order to be a stranger to oneself": Max Frisch's Stiller / Beatrice Sandberg -- Cybernetic flow, analogy, and probability in Max Frisch's Homo Faber / Paul A. Youngman -- The ends of blindness in Max Frisch's Mein name sei Gantenbein / Olaf Berwald -- Max Frisch's Montauk: eine Erzählung / Ruth Vogel-Klein -- Man, culture, and nature in Max Frisch's der Mensch erscheint im Holozän / Walter Obschlager -- "My life as a man. Everyman": Max Frisch's Blaubart: Erzählung / Daniel de Vin -- Max Frisch's essays and speeches / Régine Battiston
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