Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn". Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
Series
Books
La morte della Pizia
1976
Der Pensionierte. Fragment eines Kriminalromans
1995
The Visit
1956
Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi. Eine Komödie. Dritte Fassung
1952
Angel Comes to Babylon
Two Plays
1971
Der Richter und sein Henker / Der Verdacht
1953
Der Richter und sein Henker
1951
The Possible is Monstrous
1993
Die Wiedertaufer
1980
Grieche sucht Griechin
1955
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Episode on an autumn evening
1959
Pravosudie. Grek ischet grechanku. Avariya. Lunnoe zatmenie. Zimnyaya voyna v Tibete. Poruchenie… Rasskaz
1990
Racconti
2013
Der Verdacht
1952
قضية ظل الحمار
1958
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions
2006
Der Besuch der alten Dame / Die Physiker. Erläuterungen und Materialien.
1999
مجموعه نامرئی
مجموعه ۴۵ داستان کوتاه از ۲۶ نویسنده آلمانیزبان
1997
Frank der Fünfte. Komödie einer Privatbank. Neufassung 1980.
1959
Die Panne
1956
Der Besuch der alten Dame
1956
Il minotauro
1985
The Pledge
1957
Die Physiker
1962
Besuch der alten Dame. Die Physiker
1991
Romulus the Great
1956
Η βλάβη - Το τούνελ - Ο σκύλος
1956
Durcheinandertal
1989
Play Strindberg ;Porträt Eines Planeten
Übungsstücke Für Schauspieler
1980
La caduta
1971
La guerra invernale nel Tibet
1984
The meteor
1966
Plays and Essays
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
1982
The Assignment
or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers
1986
Justiz
1985
Novels
1980
Selected Writings, Vol. 1
Plays
2006
