Anniversary 2011/2012

Projects celebrating the 100th anniversary of Max Frisch:

• Saturday, 14 April 2012, 18:00: "twentyfive" – 25 Fragen aus Max Frischs Fragebogen l (1966)
  Location: Atelier oh-r 42, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Ohlauer Strasse 42
• 7 March 2012, 20:00: Was bedeutet Max Frisch heute?
  Discussion with Andreas Isenschmid, Judith Kuckart, Volker Schlöndorff and Julian Schütt
  Client: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  Design: Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie, Berlin
  Location: Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
• 22/29 February, 7 March 2012, 15:00: "Die Orte des Max Frisch. Einladung zu einer Reise"
  Organiser and Location: Seniorenakademie Lübeck
  Lecturer: Andreas Schwarz
• 10/11/12 February 2012: "Max Frisch in New York"
  Reflections on the private, the politics and the death
  sogar theater, Zurich
• Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich: Renewal of "Biografie: Ein Spiel"
  Wednesday, 1 February 2012
  Thursday, 2 February 2012
• 24 January 2012, 20:00: "Berliner Journal" – Notizbücher – Briefe
  Michael Mendl reads Berlin-Texte of Max Frisch
  Client: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  Design: Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie, Berlin
  Location: Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
• 14 January to 11 March 2012: "Max Frisch. An exhibition on the occassion of the 100th birthday"
  Client: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  Design: Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie, Berlin
  Location: Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
  Vernissage: 13 January 2012, 19:00
• "Frisch & Früh". A poetic and pleasurable play
  Culinary scenario with Graziella Rossi & Helmut Vogel
  Edited for stage:Peter Brunner
  Production: Katja Früh
  Location: Casinotheater Winterthur
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011
  Friday, 20 January 2012
  Monday, 12 March 2012
• 7–10 December 2011: "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän"
  Theater Winkelwiese, 8001 Zurich. Program
• 25–27 November 2011: Conference: "Gulliver in der Schweiz.
  Max Frisch: der Intellektuelle am Schnittpunkt der Traditionen und Kulturen"
  Organiser: Zentrum für Germanistik an der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine und Ivan-Franko-Universität zu Shitomir
  Location: Universität Shitomir/Ukraine
• 7 November 2011:
  The literary critics Beatrice von Matt and Hardy Ruoss
  discuss Max Frisch
  Organiser: Kulturgemeinschaft Uster
• 27 October 2011, 19:15: "Frisch-Fleisch"
  Location: Aargauer Literaturhaus
  In cooperation with the German language journal "Denkbilder" of the University Zurich and the student Berner Publication "Expositionen".
• Théâtre des Osses, Givisiez
  Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter (in French)
  Premiere: 23 October 2011
• 21 October 2011: Leipziger literarischer Herbst 2011
  Location: to be announced
  The actor Michael Mendl reads unknown texts of Max Frisch.
• 13 October 2011, 19:30: "Max Frisch und das wahre Leben"
  Monte Verità, Sala Balint
  1) Discussion of Julian Schütt (Frisch biographer) with Peter Jankovsky (NZZ)
  2) Presentation of portraits by Max Frisch of thephotographer Katja Snozzi
• 10, 11, 17 and 18 October 2011: full day guided tours to Max Frisch in the Onsernonetal
  Organizer: Info-Point Valle Onsernone in cooperation with Annegret Diethelm
  Contact: info@onsernone.ch
• Friday, 30 September 2011, 18:00–19:00: Celebrate Max Frisch's 100th Birthday!
  swissnex Boston, Cambridge
• 27 September 2011, 20:00: "100 Jahre Max Frisch"
  Location: theater (uri) Altdorf
  Leontina Lechmann and Thomas C. Gass read passages from the complete work of Max Frisch

• 16 and 17 September 2011, 20:30: "Max & Fritz - Slampoeten treffen Max Frisch und Friedrich Dürrenmatt"
  Location: Schauspielhaus Zürich
• 10, 11 and 13 June 2011: Frischlinge im Letzibad
  Organiser: Spielclub 16+, Junges Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 9–11 June 2011: International conference in Dresden
• Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 20:00: MAX FRISCH. CITOYEN
  Film von Matthias von Gunten (Suisse, 2008, 94 min., v. fr.)
  Projection suivie d'un débat avec le réalisateur animé par Ruth Vogel-Klein (ENS Paris). Organiser: Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris
• 22 May–26 June 2011: Lebenslinien
  Drawings and collage to Max Frisch
  Exhibiton of Katharina Hoehler
  Galerie im Tor, D–79312 Emmendingen
• 20 May 2011, 18:00: Vernissage of a photo exhibition in the Freibad Letzigraben, Zurich
• Thursday, 19 May 2011, 19:00, Literaturhaus Basel:
  Max Frisch: "Schreiben heisst: sich selber lesen"
  With Beatrice von Matt and Volker Weidermann
  Moderation: Manfred Papst (NZZ am Sonntag)
• Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 20:30: RÜDIGER VOGLER LIT MAX FRISCH Intermèdes musicaux de Stéphane BINET, guitare. Organiser: Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris
• 18 May 2011: "Graf Öderland"
  Staatstheater Kassel
• Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 19:00, Literaturhaus Basel:
  25 / twentyfive: Musical reading
  With Daniel Fueter (Sprecher), Sylvia Nopper (soprano) and Leslie Leon (mezzo-soprano), Music: Mela Meierhans
• 16 May 2011, 20:00: Bruno Ganz reading unknown text from Max Frisch
  Location: Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
  Organiser: Swiss Embassy in Germany and
  Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin
• 15 May 2011, 19:00: Schauspielhaus Zurich
  Reading of unknown text from Max Frisch
• 15 May 2011: 100th Birthday of Max Frisch
  Awarding the Max Frisch-Prize to Barbara Honigmann
  Matinée at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, 11:00
• twentyfive, a composition from Mela Meierhans to the FRAGEBOGEN 1 of Max Frisch.
  Shows:
  14 May 2011: Festival blurred edges, Hamburg;
  17 May 2011: Unerhörte Musik, Berlin
• 14 May 2011, 22:00: Birthday Bash
  Location: Revier Club, Hohlstrasse 18, 8004 Zurich
• 13 May 2011, 20:00, Neumarkt Theater:
  Julian Schütt in conversation with Peter Bichsel
• 13 May–29 June 2011: Literaturhaus München
  Exhibition "Max Frisch – Heimweh nach der Fremde"
• 13 May 2011, 12:30: Vernissage of the exhibition
  "Max Frisch plant ein Gymnasium"
  Kantonsschule Enge Zurich
• 11–13 May 2011: Symposium at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse
  13 May 2011, ETH Zurich, Room E 3, main building:
  16:00: Lecture Beatrice von Matt: "Pirandellesk: Max Frisch" 
  17:00: Lecture Andreas Kilcher: "Stillers Bibliothek. Transtextualität gemäss Frisch"
• mikroskopTHEATER, Bern: Frisch! – Eine Improvisation
  Direction: Doraine Green
  Dramaturgy and production: Lorenz Belser
  Premiere: 11 May 2011, Theater Tuchlaube, Aarau
• 9, 16, 23 and 30 May 2011:
  Four presentations to Max Frisch
  Volkshochschule des Kantons Zürich
• 4, 11 and 25 May 2011:
  Events of the Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg
• Theater Kanton Zurich, Winterthur: Orchestration of
  "Don Juan or Die Liebe zur Geometrie"
• 21 April 2011: "Vereinigung Freitod"
  Inaugural meeting
  With the cast of the Theater Neumarkt and Guests
  19:30, Meeting point Theater Neumarkt. Catwalk to the Club Saint Germain, Bahnhofstrasse 66
• 17 April 2011, 15:00, Vernissage:
  Exhibition "Max Frisch Berzona" in the Museo Onsernonese in Loco/Ticino (until 30 October 2011)
• 17 April 2011: "… und es sind Menschen gekommen"
  Excursion and conversation with Dr. Urs Bircher, Guido Magnaguagno and Roberta Weiss-Mariani
  11:00, Meeting point: Theater Neumarkt
• 4 April 2011: Premiere – Frisch & Früh
  Max Frisch & Eugen and Yoshida Früh-Blenk
  Text concept: Peter Brunner
  Artistic support: Katja Früh
  Sogar Theater, Zurich
• March 2011, Wortkino Stuttgart:
  www.deintheater.de: Frisch gewagt.
  The playful introduction to the life and work of the poet, supplemented with Film and Music.
• 21 March 2011, 19:30, Schiffbau Foyer:
  Beatrice von Matt reads from her new book "Mein Name ist Frisch"; Miriam Maertens and Frank Seppeler follow Max Frisch's literary tracks.
• 18, 19, 25 and 26 March, 20:00:
  Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz.
  A droll story from Max Frisch
  Theater im Schilf, Neerach
• 16 March–4 September 2011:
  Exhibition "Max Frisch" in the Strauhof Museum in Zurich
  Contracting authority: Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zurich
  Execution: Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie, Berlin
  15 March 2011, 19:00, Vernissage in the Stadthaus Zurich
• Saturday, 12 March 2011, 20:00:
  Max Frisch. Sein Werk, seine Biografie
  Talk with Peter von Matt and Julian Schütt, Author of "Max Frisch – Biographie eines Aufstiegs", moderated by Andreas Isenschmid
  Location: Theatersaal Theater Neumarkt, Zurich
• Saturday, 12 March 2011, 19:30 in the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wien:
  Premiere of the musical version of "Graf von Öderland"
  Organiser: Jeunesse Wien
  Performer: Ensemble "AMARCORD WIEN"
• 7 March 2011: Züri Littéraire in the Kaufleuten Festsaal
  Mona Vetsch welcomes the Max Frisch Specialists
  Peter von Matt (Literary scholar),
  Matthias von Gunten (Film maker) und
  Ingeborg Gleichauf (Biographer)
• Spring term 2011: 2 March–25 May, 16:00–18:00, Lecture series
  Host: Deutsches Seminar at the University Zurich
• Series of lectures "Theology and Literature by Max Frisch,
  Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Kurt Marti"
  Kirchgemeindehaus Petrus, 3006 Bern
  1, 8, 15 and 22 March 2011, in each case at 19:30
• 25 February–26 June 2011:
  Exhibition "SUHRKAMP-INSEL 3: Max Frisch. Das Tagebuch"
  Talk with VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF
  Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
  24 February 2011, 19:00: Vernissage of the exhibition
• Lecture series at the University of Berne: "Max Frisch"
  Host: Prof. Yahya Elsaghe, Institut für Germanistik
  Term: 21 February–30 May 2011, 16:00–18:00
• 19 February 2011, 22:00: ALLES VON MAX FRISCH
  Theater am Neumarkt
• 12–20 February 2011: Biederman's Match
  Performance by the University of California, Santa Barbara
• 31 January 2011:
  Commemorative plaque at the last residence of Max Frisch, Stadelhoferstrasse 28, 8001 Zurich
• 21 January to 26 February 2011:
  Theater St. Gallen: "Play Gantenbein!", orchestrated Audio walk for one person on the bases of the Max Frisch novel "Mein Name sei Gantenbein".
• 20 January 2011:
  Presentation of a official silver coin and special stamp
  Organizer: Swissmint and Swiss Post in co-operation with the Max Frisch Archive. Not public!
• 8 January 2011: Premiere Graf Öderland
  Stadttheater Giessen
  Production: Dirk Schulz
• Stadttheater Basel, Season 2010/11: Graf Öderland
• Schauspielhaus Zurich:
  Staging of "Stiller", Schiffbau, Box
  Premiere: 10 November 2010

Status quo : 15 February 2012