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Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Monika Stefanie Boss (Hg.), Margaux de Weck (Hg.), Kati Hertzsch (Hg.), Winfried Stephan (Hg.), Anna von Planta (Hg.), Ulrich Weber (Hg.) | Sein Leben in Bildern | English Title: His Life in Pictures<br>Biography, 376 Pages

Biography, Hardcover
376 Pages
Published in Nov. 2011

ISBN 978-3-257-06766-8
€ (D) 49.00 / (A) 50.40
sFr 68.00*
* recommended retail price

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Sein Leben in Bildern

English Title: His Life in Pictures

When Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a child, his parents told him the Greek myths and the stories of the Old Testament. These became the essentials of his future artistic material. A student of literature and philosophy in Switzerland spared by the cruelties of World War II, Dürrenmatt imagined the apocalypse in expressionistic paintings and in a first play, which scandalized the Swiss and made Dürrenmatt into a household name. In 1952 he moved with his wife and children to Neuchâtel. It was here, in peace and solitude, that he wrote his internationally acclaimed plays (›The Visit‹, ›The Physicists‹) and his bestselling crime novels (›The Judge and his Hangman‹, ›The Pledge‹). His late works, considered by many as his crowning achievement, are yet to be discovered by a large audience. Hundreds of unpublished photographs from the writer’s private archives are juxtaposed and ›commented‹ by excerpts from Dürrenmatt’s autobiographical works and interviews. A fantastic and vivid life in pictures.

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»This biographical photo album is also a tour round cultural and theatrical history – and not only that of Switzerland. We spent hours leafing through it, reading, and looking and thinking: What a treasure trove! What a cosmos it contains! And we admit: we revelled in it! «Aargauer Zeitung

»It is only a few weeks ago that Peter Rüedi’s authoritative Dürrenmatt biography was published by Diogenes – and the picture album now extends this written account to look at the visual universe of what was an exceptional life story: outwardly rather uneventful, but inwardly explosively exceptional.«Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Dürrenmatt was a spiritual colossus in this world, and still is. Just how colossal this colossus was is made clear by the large-format book ›Friedrich Dürrenmatt. His Life in Pictures‹.«St. Galler Tagblatt

»Some 650 illustrations show the writer and his environment, and then there are documents and numerous paintings and drawings, surrounded by biographical quotations, mainly from his ›Stoffe‹, and tied together by intelligent and useful linking texts by Margaux de Weck, which enable even readers who are quite unfamiliar with Dürrenmatt to quickly find their way. So the book is an introduction to his life and work, a visual complement to both (and to Rüedl’s long biographical essay) - and above all a huge pleasure to read and to look at.« Tages–Anzeiger

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