Projects

Completed projects

Restore and digitalization of the first versions of “Homo Faber” and “Andorra”

Restoration and digitalisation of the first versions of “Homo faber” and “Andorra” has been terminated. The digitised version of “Homo faber” can already be reviewed.

Exhibition “The Lost Space of Stiller. A spatial approximation”

In February/March 2009, the Max Frisch Archive held an exhibition called “The Lost Space of Stiller. A spatial approximation”, on the theme of “the search for the unsayable”. Inspired by the writings of Max Frisch, and especially his novel “I’m Not Stiller”, the installation was created by London-based architect Markus Seifermann. His work can also be understood as an interdisciplinary bridge between literature and architecture.

What you could see was a mobile home, housing an “identity stalker”. He was collecting clues to Stiller’s supposed identity, which he wanted to put together to make a whole. This was an enterprise in which he was bound to fail and which made the name Stiller a universal metaphor for someone who denies their identity. For, as the 70-year old Max Frisch said, “Truth cannot be described, only invented.”

Migration of audio-visual material

A division of the Max Frisch Archive is the audio-visual collection. A large number of interviews and performances had been recorded. There is a wide range of documentations about life and work of Max Frisch, radio broadcasts, TV movies, and video records.

This very informative material was most at risk by frequent use since the 1960s, by physical decay of the tapes and they needed a preservation very badly. The situation required urgent conservation to contemporary digital audio-visual formats.

So they became migrated to digital formats from December 2010 to March 2011. For public access DVDs and CDs will be gradually indexed in our Online archive database (only in German).