Jonas Lüscher wins the 2022 Max Frisch Prize – recording available
The City of Zurich has awarded the 2022 Max Frisch Prize to Jonas Lüscher. Find out more from the event on the ETH Library’s YouTube channel.
On 19 June 2022, the City of Zurich awarded the Max Frisch Prize of CHF 40,000 to the Swiss-German author Jonas Lüscher. With the award, the city has honoured a writer “whose novels and essays compellingly address the big issues in politics and society through the lens of literature”. Lüscher’s writing approaches current questions such as globalisation, ideology and populism from a variety of angles. The 46-year-old achieved his breakthrough with his novella “Frühling der Barbaren”. In 2017, his novel “Kraft” won the Swiss Book Prize.
The Max Frisch Sponsorship Award of CHF 10,000 went to the German author Enis Maci. Maci, born in 1993, frequently explores the human body and society’s view of the genders in her plays and essays. The jury praised her writing as “contemporary with a keen awareness of history”. Her plays were performed at leading theatres in Vienna, Munich and Leipzig among other venues.
Recording of the award ceremony
On 19 June, the City of Zurich presented the 2022 Max Frisch Prize and the 2022 Max Frisch Sponsorship Award during a festive ceremony at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. You can watch the jury’s statement and the laudatory speeches of Joseph Vogl and Dorothee Elmiger on the ETH Library’s YouTube channel:
The Max Frisch Archive is an independent research institution belonging to the Max Frisch Foundation and based at the 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.
