Max Frisch, Die chinesische Mauer [The Chinese Wall]

Peter J. Yang (Case Western Reserve University)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
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 1947

Places

Switzerland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Die Chinesische Mauer. Eine Farce [The Chinese Wall. A Farce, 1946] is a German language play by the Swiss author Max Frisch. In respect to active engagement with new and ongoing urgent socio-political issues, their theatrical representation, and the necessary artistic experiments with such a representation, this “farce” has played and continues to play an important role not only on stage, but also in European social and political life.

Before Max Frisch wrote his play The Chinese Wall, he travelled to war-shattered Germany in May and June 1946. His impressions of this trip were unforgettable: he saw ruins and refugees everywhere. In August 1945 the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima …

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Citation: Yang, Peter J.. "Die chinesische Mauer". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 May 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13974, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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