Max Frisch, Tagebuch 1946-1949 [Diary 1946-1949]

Alfred D. White (Cardiff University)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1950

Places

Switzerland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Autobiography (literary)
- Journal/ Diary

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Despite its title,

Tagebuch

is not a diary. Instead it is a notebook of texts compiled over several years, including Frisch’s exercises in writing and thinking: impressions of particular days, attempts to clarify a question that occupies him, imaginative sketches and even fairly advanced scenarios for literary works. Frisch remarkes: “

Die Form des Tagebuchs, so wie ich es für mich entwickelt habe, [...] ist eigentümlich für den Verfasser meines Namens

” [“Diary form, as I have developed it for myself, is peculiar to the author bearing my name”]. Following the early serialisations of his diaries in the leading newspaper,

Neue Zürcher Zeitung,

and in

Blätter aus dem Brotsack

[

Leaves from the Knapsack

, 1939], Frisch began to develop a unique sub-genre which was fresh,…

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Citation: White, Alfred D.. "Tagebuch 1946-1949". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 July 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13976, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Max Frisch, Tagebuch 1946-1949 [Diary 1946-1949]

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