Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.
Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Do you know what you need?”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Cause and effect are never divided between two people”

Max Frisch

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“Uniforms ruin every character”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity…”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

“That a plot has no real life of it's own; it exists only in it's precipitates. It cannot be distilled but only crystallized- in which form it is then immutable, whether successful or unsuccesful: once and for all”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“What hope have you know given up?”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”

Max Frisch

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“The dead are difficult because they´ve never known the people I´m involved with today”

Max Frisch

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook (2013)

“I know that I'm the happiest of lovers…”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein faking to his lover he is blind
Gantenbein (1964)

“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”

Max Frisch

Sketchbook 1966-1977