Max Frisch, Andorra: Stück in zwöf Bildern [Andorra: A Play in Twelve Scenes]

Judith Ricker-Abderhalden (University of Arkansas)

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 1961

Places

Switzerland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

In his 7^th April 2002 preview of the off-Broadway revival of Andorra in the New York Times, Jonathan Kalb reminds readers of the contrast between the enormous success on German-speaking and European stages of the original 1961 production and its 1963 failure on Broadway. The discrepancy between these reactions is telling in terms of culturally different audience expectations concerning a play written in German having to do with anti-Semitism.

Similar to several other of Frisch’s texts, a nucleus of Andorra appeared in his Tagebuch 1946-1949 [Diary 1946-1949] (1950). The author did not return to his original brief sketch, called “Der …

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Citation: Ricker-Abderhalden, Judith. "Andorra: Stück in zwöf Bildern". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 June 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13982, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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