He was natural in January Five. 1921 around Konolfingen near Bern as the the boy of the protestant pastor.

Within 1941 he began to learn philosophy & german language & literatur at a University of Zurich but dropped out after merely 1 semester. He continued his studies at a University of Bern. Around 1943 he decided to be an creator & stopped his academic career. Around 1945/46, a wrote his 1st play Es steht geschrieben. Around 1947 he married a actrice Lotty Giesser, who died inside 1983.

The Visit (Der Besuch der alten Dame, 1956) which tells of a rich helper camping her beneficiaries, is the operate better known in the United States. A satirical drama A Physicists (Die Physiker, 1962) which deals with issues on science & its responsibility for spectacular & possibly unsafe changes to my globe has likewise been presented within translation.

A politically active creator gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and typically grim caustic remark. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn".

Dürrenmatt married once more, within 1984, a second actress, known as Charlotte Kerr.

Around 1990, he hang on to 2 noted speeches, 1 around honour of Vaclav Havel (Die Schweiz, ein Gefängniss? / Swizerland when Prison?), & a more inside honour of Michail Gorbatschow (Kantos Hoffnung / Kants Hope). Dürrenmatt typically likened a tercet abrahamic Religions & Marxism, which he took also as a religion.

Possibly in case there are many parallels between Duerrenmatt & Brecht, Duerrentmatt never took position for one more an additional Political position, however delineated the pragmatical philosophy of life. Around 1969 he traveled in the USA, in 1974 to Israel and in 1990 to Auschwitz in Poland.

Them late works "Labyrinth" & "Turmbau zu Babel" come the collection of bare Ideas, Stories & Philosophic toughts.

Dürrenmatt died in December 14. 1990 within Neuchatelle.

He died around Neuchâtel.

Selected Bibliography

Es steht geschrieben (1947) 500 Blinde (1947) Romulus der Große (1950) Der Richter und sein Henker (1952) Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi (1952) 500 Verdacht (1953) Der Besuch der alten Dame (1956) Die Panne (1956) Cony Versprechen (1958) Die Physiker (1962) 500 Meteor (1966) Play Strindberg (1969) Five hundred Sturz (1971) Achterloo (1982) Justiz (1985)

Dürrenmatt's Stories in Film

It Happened inside Wide Daylight (1958, Das Versprechen) Der Besuch der alten Dame (1964, Der Besuch der alten Dame) It used to be that the Greek (1966, Grieche sucht Griechin) Incurring Away by owning Execution (1970, The Judge & His Hangman) Hyènes 1992 Justiz (1993) The Pledge (2001, Das Versprechen)