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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was born in Konolfingen near Berne as the son of a protestant minister. He studied philosophy, German literature and history of art in Berne and Zurich and worked as a playwright, novelist, essayist and painter in Neuchâtel, where he lived with his family.

Movie Adaptations
  • Im Labyrinth / Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Der kritische Geist der Schweiz, Sabine Gisiger, 2015
  • Schurkenstück, Torsten C. Fischer, 2010
  • Der Besuch der alten Dame, Nikolaus Leytner, 2008
  • The Pledge, Sean Penn, 2001
  • Es geschah am hellichten Tag, Nico Hofmann, 1997
  • Es geschah am hellichten Tag, Bernd Eichinger, 1996
  • Tod im kalten Morgenlicht, Rudolf van den Berg, 1995
  • Der Wiedertäufer, Heinirich Koch, 1994
  • In the Cold Light of Day, Rudolf van den Berg, 1994
  • Justiz, Hans Werner Geißendörfer, 1993
  • Hyènes, Djibril diop Mamberty, 1992
  • Hyänen / Hyènes, Ramatou, Djibril diop Mamberty, 1992
  • Die Welt ist ein Irrenhaus: Achterloo IV, Roman Brodman, 1989
  • Achterloo, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1988
  • Abendstunde im Spätherbst, August Everding, 1988
  • Der Besuch der alten Dame, Max Peter Ammann, 1982
  • Der Besuch der alten Dame, Max Peter Ammann, 1982
  • Der Richter und sein Henker, Maximilian Schell, 1975
  • Der Mitmacher, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1974
  • Der Besuch der alten Dame, Hans/Cella Gaugler/Ettore, 1973
  • Der Wiedertäufer, Werner Schlechte, 1973
  • La piu bella serata della mia vita, Ettore Scola, 1972
  • König Johann, Vaclav Hudcek, 1971
  • Porträt eines Planeten, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1971
  • Frank V. Opfer einer Privatbank, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1967
  • Der Meteor, Leopold Lindtberg, 1967
  • Grieche sucht Griechin, Rolf Thiele, 1966
  • Romulus der Große , Helmut Käutner, 1965
  • Ein Engel kommt nach Babylon, William Dieterle, 1964
  • Die Physiker, Fritz Umgelter, 1964
  • The Visit, Bernhard Wicki, 1963
  • Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi, Kurt Hoffmann, 1961
  • Abendstunde im Spätherbst, Rudolf Noelte, 1960
  • Der Besuch der alten Dame, Ludwig Cremer, 1959
  • Es geschah am hellichten Tag, Ladislao Vajda, 1958
  • Der Richter und sein Henker, Franz Peter Wirth, 1957
  • Die Panne, Fritz Umgelter, 1957
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»Dürrenmatt has always been too impulsive for his times but the chaotic world has quickly caught up with him. That's why his work will last. The purifying force of his irony becomes the more important and useful – particularly because it is driven by the profound humanity that Dürrenmatt's friends always knew in him.«
Peter Brook
»One of Europe's most important postwar dramatists.«
The Daily Telegraph, London
»Even after the death of its author, his huge and unique work is still a dark continent, largely unilluminated and untested, a continent in motion, always good for intellectual surprises and dramatic adventures.«
Gert Ueding

»One of the greatest writers of our century.«

Corriere della Sera, Milan

»Dürrenmatt was addressing the real crowd assembled in real theaters with all their swiftly changing feelings, their ignorance, bad habits and vaulting possibilities. At the same time he was a philosopher-poet with one eye on the picture of the real, on artifice, and on the long preoccupations of philosophy and art through the ages.«

Arthur Miller

»Now, like an avalanche in far-off mountains, comes Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a detective-story writer with a genius for the theater, to give us a new theme, or rather to remind us of an ancient one: justice. His vision is a cold one but pure, and very nearly unique in our day, for in his devotion to the idea of justice he has succeeded in casting across an age committed to false Love the dark shadow of the scales.«

Gore Vidal

»It was once observed by Oscar Wilde that a writer should be able to write anything. Mr. Dürrenmatt meets Wilde's requirement. He adopts a manner well liked by some of our better writers, that of a Roman of the later Empire, a golden weariness. Mr. Dürrenmatt chooses compression of style and strictness of form, but the late Imperial feeling is still there.«

Saul Bellow

»Next to Kafka and Camus, he is one of the great questioners of this world.«

Martin Ebel / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

»Friedrich Dürrenmatt belonged to the most cheerful apocalyptic writers of the 20th century.«

Thomas Hürlimann / Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich

»Universal, uncomfortable and visionary: Friedrich Dürrenmatt is the worthy reigning literary monarch of the year.«

Wener Krause / Kleine Zeitung, Graz

»He is evil, he doesn't think anything good of humanity, and he describes this – but he does it with wit.«

Elke Heidenreich / SRF2, Zurich

»Friedrich Dürrenmatt is a centenial author, because he saw the century that was to follow him too.«

Daniele Muscionico / Aargauer Zeitung, Aarau
»Dürrenmatt has always been too impulsive for his times but the chaotic world has quickly caught up with him. That's why his work will last. The purifying force of his irony becomes the more important and useful – particularly because it is driven by the profound humanity that Dürrenmatt's friends always knew in him.«
Peter Brook
»One of Europe's most important postwar dramatists.«
The Daily Telegraph, London
»Even after the death of its author, his huge and unique work is still a dark continent, largely unilluminated and untested, a continent in motion, always good for intellectual surprises and dramatic adventures.«
Gert Ueding

»One of the greatest writers of our century.«

Corriere della Sera, Milan

»Dürrenmatt was addressing the real crowd assembled in real theaters with all their swiftly changing feelings, their ignorance, bad habits and vaulting possibilities. At the same time he was a philosopher-poet with one eye on the picture of the real, on artifice, and on the long preoccupations of philosophy and art through the ages.«

Arthur Miller

»Now, like an avalanche in far-off mountains, comes Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a detective-story writer with a genius for the theater, to give us a new theme, or rather to remind us of an ancient one: justice. His vision is a cold one but pure, and very nearly unique in our day, for in his devotion to the idea of justice he has succeeded in casting across an age committed to false Love the dark shadow of the scales.«

Gore Vidal

»It was once observed by Oscar Wilde that a writer should be able to write anything. Mr. Dürrenmatt meets Wilde's requirement. He adopts a manner well liked by some of our better writers, that of a Roman of the later Empire, a golden weariness. Mr. Dürrenmatt chooses compression of style and strictness of form, but the late Imperial feeling is still there.«

Saul Bellow

»Next to Kafka and Camus, he is one of the great questioners of this world.«

Martin Ebel / Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

»Friedrich Dürrenmatt belonged to the most cheerful apocalyptic writers of the 20th century.«

Thomas Hürlimann / Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich

»Universal, uncomfortable and visionary: Friedrich Dürrenmatt is the worthy reigning literary monarch of the year.«

Wener Krause / Kleine Zeitung, Graz

»He is evil, he doesn't think anything good of humanity, and he describes this – but he does it with wit.«

Elke Heidenreich / SRF2, Zurich

»Friedrich Dürrenmatt is a centenial author, because he saw the century that was to follow him too.«

Daniele Muscionico / Aargauer Zeitung, Aarau
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Das Stoffe-Projekt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Subject Matter
General Fiction / 2352 pages
2021
Im Warenkorb
Die Stücke
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Plays
General Fiction / 1584 pages
2015
Im Warenkorb
Die Kriminalromane
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Crime Novels
Crime fiction / 992 pages
2011
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Labyrinth / Turmbau (Subject Matter I-IX)
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Labyrinth / Turmbau (Subject Matter I-IX)
Biographies / 736 pages
2002
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Meine Schweiz
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
My Switzerland
Anthologies / 256 pages
1998
Im Warenkorb
Minotaurus / Der Auftrag / Midas
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The Minotaur/ The Assignment; or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers/ Midas
General Fiction / 208 pages
1998
Im Warenkorb
Die Schweiz - ein Gefängnis
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Switzerland - A Prison
General Fiction / 80 pages
1997
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Das Versprechen
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The Pledge
Crime fiction / 160 pages
1996
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Der Pensionierte
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The Pensioner
Crime fiction / 200 pages
1995
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Die Panne
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Traps
Crime fiction / 144 pages
1995
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Das Mögliche ist ungeheuer
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The Enormity of the Possible
General Fiction / 144 pages
1993
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Gedankenfuge
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Gedankenfuge
General Fiction / 208 pages
1992
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Grieche sucht Griechin
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Greek Man Seeks Greek Wife
General Fiction / 160 pages
1992
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Durcheinandertal
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The Vale of Confusion
Crime fiction / 176 pages
1989
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Versuche
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Trials
General Fiction / 184 pages
1988
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Der Richter und sein Henker
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Judge and His Hangman
Crime fiction / 128 pages
1986
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Der Auftrag
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The Assignment
Crime fiction / 136 pages
1986
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Der Verdacht
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Suspicion
Crime fiction / 128 pages
1986
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Minotaurus
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The Minotaur
General Fiction / 56 pages
1985
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Justiz
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Justice
General Fiction / 376 pages
1985
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Der Winterkrieg in Tibet
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The Winter War in Tibet
Biographies / 192 pages
1984
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Achterloo
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Achterloo
General Fiction / 128 pages
1983
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Stoffe I–III
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Winter War in Tibet/ Lunar Eclipse/ The Rebel
General Fiction / 360 pages
1981
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Zusammenhänge/Nachgedanken
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Nexus
General Fiction / 240 pages
1980
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Die Wiedertäufer
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Anabaptists
General Fiction / 144 pages
1980
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Urfaust / Woyzeck
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Urfaust/ Woyzeck. Adaptations
General Fiction / 208 pages
1980
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Theater
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Theatre
General Fiction / 272 pages
1980
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Der Sturz / Abu Chanifa und Anan ben David / Smithy / Das Sterben der Pythia
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Coup/ Abu Chanifa and Anan ben David/ Smithy/ The Dying of the Pythia
General Fiction / 160 pages
1980
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Romulus der Große
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Romulus the Great
General Fiction / 176 pages
1980
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Prosa, Essays und Materialien in 13 Bänden in Kassette
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Complete Prose Oeuvre
General Fiction / 3024 pages
1980
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Politik
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Politics
General Fiction / 192 pages
1980
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Play Strindberg / Porträt eines Planeten
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Play Strinberg/ Portrait of a Planet
General Fiction / 208 pages
1980
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Die Physiker
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The Physicists
General Fiction / 96 pages
1980
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Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Philosophical Essays
General Fiction / 208 pages
1980
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Der Mitmacher
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Conformist
General Fiction / 336 pages
1980
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Der Meteor / Dichterdämmerung
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Meteor/ Twilight of the Poets
General Fiction / 208 pages
1980
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Literatur und Kunst
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Literature and Painting
General Fiction / 240 pages
1980
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Kritik
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Reviews
General Fiction / 176 pages
1980
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König Johann / Titus Andronicus
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
King John/ Titus Andronicus
General Fiction / 240 pages
1980
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Der Hund / Der Tunnel / Die Panne
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Dog/ The Tunnel/ Traps
General Fiction / 112 pages
1980
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Herkules und der Stall des Augias / Der Prozeß um des Esels Schatten
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Hercules and the Augean Stables/ The Trial about the Donkey's Shadow
General Fiction / 240 pages
1980
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Grieche sucht Griechin / Mr. X macht Ferien / Nachrichten über den Stand des Ze
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Greek Man Seeks Greek Wife/ Mr. X Goes on Holiday/ News about the State of Press during the Stone Age
General Fiction / 208 pages
1980
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Nächtliches Gespräch mit einem verachteten Menschen / Stranitzky und der Nation
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Nocturnal Conversation with a Scorned Man/ Stranitzky and the National Hero/ The Vega Enterprise
General Fiction / 160 pages
1980
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Die Frist
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The Deadline
General Fiction / 160 pages
1980
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Frank der Fünfte
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Frank V
General Fiction / 176 pages
1980
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Es steht geschrieben / Der Blinde
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
It Is Written/ The Blind Man
General Fiction / 336 pages
1980
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Ein Engel kommt nach Babylon
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
An Angel Comes to Babylon
General Fiction / 144 pages
1980
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Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
General Fiction / 224 pages
1980
Im Warenkorb
Das dramatische Werk in 17 Bänden in Kassette
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Complete Dramatic Oeuvre
General Fiction / 3408 pages
1980
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Der Besuch der alten Dame
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Visit
General Fiction / 160 pages
1980
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Aus den Papieren eines Wärters
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Early Prose: Christmas/ The Torturer/ The Sausage/ The Son/ The Old Man/ Portrait of Sisyphos/ The Theatre Director/ The Trap/ Pilatos/ The Town/ From the Papers of a Guardsman
General Fiction / 208 pages
1980
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Albert Einstein
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Albert Einstein
General Fiction / 80 pages
1979
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Subject Matter
The Plays
The Crime Novels
Labyrinth / Turmbau (Subject Matter I-IX)
My Switzerland
The Minotaur/ The Assignment; or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers/ Midas
Switzerland - A Prison
The Pledge
The Pensioner
Traps
The Enormity of the Possible
Gedankenfuge
Greek Man Seeks Greek Wife
The Vale of Confusion
Trials
The Judge and His Hangman
The Assignment
Suspicion
The Minotaur
Justice
The Winter War in Tibet
Achterloo
The Winter War in Tibet/ Lunar Eclipse/ The Rebel
Nexus
The Anabaptists
Urfaust/ Woyzeck. Adaptations
Theatre
The Coup/ Abu Chanifa and Anan ben David/ Smithy/ The Dying of the Pythia
Romulus the Great
The Complete Prose Oeuvre
Politics
Play Strinberg/ Portrait of a Planet
The Physicists
Philosophical Essays
The Conformist
The Meteor/ Twilight of the Poets
Literature and Painting
Reviews
King John/ Titus Andronicus
The Dog/ The Tunnel/ Traps
Hercules and the Augean Stables/ The Trial about the Donkey's Shadow
Greek Man Seeks Greek Wife/ Mr. X Goes on Holiday/ News about the State of Press during the Stone Age
Nocturnal Conversation with a Scorned Man/ Stranitzky and the National Hero/ The Vega Enterprise
The Deadline
Frank V
It Is Written/ The Blind Man
An Angel Comes to Babylon
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
The Complete Dramatic Oeuvre
The Visit
Early Prose: Christmas/ The Torturer/ The Sausage/ The Son/ The Old Man/ Portrait of Sisyphos/ The Theatre Director/ The Trap/ Pilatos/ The Town/ From the Papers of a Guardsman
Albert Einstein
Das Versprechen
Der Richter und sein Henker
Drei Kriminalromane
Labyrinth
Der Auftrag
Der Hund / Der Tunnel
Minotaurus
Die Physiker
Die Physiker