Author · Switzerland
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Died in 1990
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born on 5 January 1921 in Konolfingen, the son of a pastor, and grew up in Bern. He studied German literature and philosophy in Zurich and Bern, then left the university to write. He lived at first on theatre reviews, radio plays and detective novels, and drew and painted all his life while showing almost nothing. Settled in Neuchâtel, where a centre is now devoted to his painted work, he died there on 14 December 1990, aged sixty-nine.
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- TheatreThe VisitDer Besuch der alten DameFriedrich Dürrenmatt · 1956Literature