Max Frisch’s correspondence
An international academic conference will take place at Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse (France) from 19 to 21 May.
Max Frisch’s estate contains around 15,000 letters. They include correspondence with authors, publishers and editors, personalities from politics and society, and numerous readers.
As part of an international conference that will take place at Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse from 19 to 21 May, researchers from multiple European countries will devote themselves to the subject of Max Frisch the letter writer. They will investigate both the private and public sides of his correspondence and discuss the relationship between his letters and his literary works.
Evening event with Dorothee Elmiger
Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger will be the guest at a public evening event at 6 p.m. on 20 May. In a discussion with her French translator Camille Luscher and Thomas Strässle, the President of the Max Frisch Foundation, she will talk about her literary examination of Frisch. The event will be held at the external pageBibliothèque Municipale in Mulhouse.
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The conference is being organised by Régine Battiston, Director of the external pageInstitut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes at Université de Haute-Alsace, and Tobias Amslinger, director of the ETH Library’s Literary Archives. It is being held in cooperation with external pageDeutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and funded by the external pageFritz Thyssen Stiftung.
The Max Frisch Archive is an independent research institution belonging to the Max Frisch Foundation and based at ETH Library in Zurich. It curates and adds to the literary legacy of Swiss author and ETH Zurich alumnus Max Frisch. The holdings are available for academic, journalistic and artistic research.