Sketches of an Accident/Sketches of an Accident Victim
With an afterword by Norbert Mecklenburg
Sketches of an Accident/Sketches of an Accident Victim / Skizze eines Unglücks/Skizze eines Verunglückten
With an afterword by Norbert Mecklenburg
In his Sketchbook, 1966–1971, Max Frisch published fragments of a story under the title »Sketches of an Accident«. In these fragments, the doctor Viktor travels with his lover, Marlies, a specialist in Romance studies, to Provence. An accident occurs, and the woman dies. Viktor is never again involved in an accident, but the rest of his life is influenced by his feelings of guilt about the victim of the accident.
Uwe Johnson’s “response”,...
Uwe Johnson’s “response”,...
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In his Sketchbook, 1966–1971, Max Frisch published fragments of a story under the title »Sketches of an Accident«. In these fragments, the doctor Viktor travels with his lover, Marlies, a specialist in Romance studies, to Provence. An accident occurs, and the woman dies. Viktor is never again involved in an accident, but the rest of his life is influenced by his feelings of guilt about the victim of the accident.
Uwe Johnson’s “response”, his contribution to the Festschrift produced in celebration of Max Frisch’s 70th birthday, bears the title “Sketch of an Accident Victim”. The accident victim is the writer J. Hinterhand (1906–75), who kills his wife because she has supposedly been cheating on him for years. For his crime, he spends eight years in prison. After his release in 1957, he comes up with his own “death sentence”, to be “fulfilled through his demise”.
Uwe Johnson’s “response”, his contribution to the Festschrift produced in celebration of Max Frisch’s 70th birthday, bears the title “Sketch of an Accident Victim”. The accident victim is the writer J. Hinterhand (1906–75), who kills his wife because she has supposedly been cheating on him for years. For his crime, he spends eight years in prison. After his release in 1957, he comes up with his own “death sentence”, to be “fulfilled through his demise”.
2018, 133 pages
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Max Frisch
Author
Max Frisch, born in Zurich in 1911, first worked as a journalist, later as an architect, until his breakthrough as a writer with his novel Stiller (1954). This was followed by the novels Homo faber (1957) and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964) as well as short stories, diaries, plays, radio plays and essays. Frisch died in Zurich on April 4, 1991.
Max Frisch
Author
Max Frisch, born in Zurich in 1911, first worked as a journalist, later as an architect, until his breakthrough as a writer with his novel...
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Uwe Johnson
Author
Uwe Johnson was born in Kammin (today: Kamien Pomorski), Poland, in 1934 and died in Sheerness-on-Sea on February 22 or 23, 1984. His estate is kept at the Uwe Johnson Archive at the University of Rostock.
Uwe Johnson
Author
Uwe Johnson was born in Kammin (today: Kamien Pomorski), Poland, in 1934 and died in Sheerness-on-Sea on February 22 or 23, 1984. His estate is...
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Ingeborg Bachmann, Max FrischYear of Publication: 2022
»We Didn’t Do Well.«
Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 and cover star of Der Spiegel – is broadcasting the radio play Der gute Gott von...
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Year of Publication: 2019
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2019
Questionnaire
»Do you consider yourself to be a good friend? Are you a good friend to yourself?« Twenty-three questions on the subject of friendship lie between these two queries. Max Frisch’s...
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Year of Publication: 2016
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2016
Sketch of an Accident Victim
Johnson wrote this work as a 70th birthday present for Max Frisch, the “biographer”, the depicter of the irreconcilability of identity and the official image of an individual....
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Year of Publication: 2015
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2015
Ignorance as State Security?
In his final typescript, in a deeply personal way and in a novel literary form, Max Frisch engaged with the national scandal that rocked Switzerland in 1989 and 1990: almost a million Swiss citizens had been under State surveillance during the Cold War. On individualised index cards or »fiches« the Attorney General’s Office created a chronicle of suspicion, whose grotesque banality served...
Year of Publication: 2014
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2014
From the Berlin Journal
The legendary Berlin Journal is one of the great treasures in Max Frisch’s posthumous papers. Frisch himself mandated that it not be published until twenty years after his...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2010
I Didn’t Want to Leave Any Questions Unasked
In Concomitants, Johnson's account of his experiences as a writer in both East and West, Uwe Johnson describes the failure of a book he had set out to write in 1963 and in which he wanted to document the work of Fluchthelfer (»escape helpers«), who aided people in fleeing the GDR. For that purpose, he conducted interviews about the Why and How of their work with members of...
Year of Publication: 2010
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2010
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
The typescript of a previously unknown work was discovered in the Max Frisch Archive in Zurich in 2009. A total of 184 pages, dictated by Frisch, typed from tape by his secretary. A...
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Year of Publication: 2009
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 2009
»for means of brutal communication«
In 1959, just after Uwe Johnson’s relocation to West berlin and the publication of his debut novel Speculations About Jakob, the correspondence and friendship between Johnson and Hans Magnus Enzensberger commences. Over the course of eight years they communicate about the situation of literature and politics and discuss the scopes of political activism. At the same time,...
Year of Publication: 2009
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2009
An Answer from the Silence
Max Frisch’s literary career began in 1934 with the novel Jürg Reinhart, a summery tale of the road to destiny. Three years later in the German publishing establishment he...
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Year of Publication: 1992
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1992
Speculations About Jakob
When Speculations About Jakob went to the presses in June 1959, its author moved from the GDR to West-Berlin. He was aware that this book, which contradicted the official...
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Year of Publication: 1983
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1983
Anniversaries
In Anniversaries, Uwe Johnson develops a unique panorama of German history in the 20th century – a »literary world trip« (Reinhard Baumgart) that starts with the story of a German...
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Year of Publication: 1975
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1975
Berlin Things
Berlin Things, published in 1975, is Uwe Johnson’s first volume of essays for which he compiled texts written between 1961 and 1971 that had largely been published elsewhere previously. Most of the texts were written on issues of day-to-day politics and they show Johnson as an alert intellectual who intervenes in politics with his journalistic research. Johnson...
Year of Publication: 1975
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1975
Montauk
»I want to describe this day, nothing but this day, our weekend and all of this happened, what happens next, without inventing anything.«
»Max Frisch’s candid story of his...
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Year of Publication: 1973
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1973
I’m Not Stiller
Upon entering Switzerland, Mister White is arrested because the police believe he is the missing sculptor Anatol Ludwig Stiller. Former friends confirm their suspicion. Yet White denies this...
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Year of Publication: 1972
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1972
Sketchbook, 1966–1971
»By the time Swiss author Max Frisch published the second volume of his diaries or sketchbooks, he had achieved international recognition as a writer and dramatist. In this volume, he develops...
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Year of Publication: 1965
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1965
Two Views
Two Views is set in the divided city of Berlin in 1961. Alternating between the two perspectives of East and West, the story is told through the eyes of West German photographer B. and East...
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Year of Publication: 1964
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1964
Karsch and Other Prose
It is time to revaluate Uwe Johnson's five prose texts contained in this volume, which were first published in 1964. Many readers and critics believed it to be a compilation of stories –...
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Year of Publication: 1964
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1964
Gantenbein
A man sits in his flat, alone. The carpets are rolled up, the shutters closed, the furniture is covered with white cloths. »Of the people who once lived here, one thing is certain: one male,...
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Year of Publication: 1961
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1961
The Third Book about Achim
In 1961, shortly before the construction of the wall that cut East and West Berlin off from each other and turned the border through Germany into a militarily guarded one, Uwe Johnson published...
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Year of Publication: 1957
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1957
Homo faber
Max Frisch‘s Homo faber is one of the most important and most-read books of the 20th century: Engineer Walter Faber believes in a rational worldview that is irrevocably destroyed by a...
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Year of Publication: 1950
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1950
Sketchbook, 1946–1949
Max Frisch's sketchbook is a survey. His reports from Europe between the years of 1946 and 1949, the accounts of his encounters in the post-war years are of both historic and current...
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