Thomas Strässle
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Thomas Strässle
Thomas Strässle, born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1972, studied literature, philosophy and musicology in Zurich, Cambridge and Paris. Alongside this, he trained as a flautist. Today, he is the director of the transdisciplinary Y Institute at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and a professor of modern German and comparative literature at the University of Zurich. He is also president of the Max Frisch Foundation at ETH Zurich.
Thomas Strässle, born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1972, studied literature, philosophy and musicology in Zurich, Cambridge and Paris. Alongside this, he trained as a flautist. Today, he is the director of the transdisciplinary Y Institute at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and a professor of modern German and comparative literature at the University of Zurich. He is also president of the Max Frisch Foundation at ETH Zurich.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2024
Thomas SträssleYear of Publication: 2024
Flight Novella
Erfurt, 1965: two students meet at the ‘House of the Red Army’. She is from East Germany, 21 years old, he is Swiss, 23. They fall in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together, but they’re separated by the Iron Curtain. The idea that he might join her in the East is inconceivable, so they desperately look for a way to get her to the West. When they realise that it is not possible to...
Year of Publication: 2022
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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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (speak low)
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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Russia (Libra), Netherlands (Borgerhoff-Lamberigts), Denmark (Basilisk), Sweden (Faethon), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Georgia (Sulakauri)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
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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English world rights (Seagull), French world rights (Zoé), Italy (Armando Dadò), Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic (Archa), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook rights (DAV), German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)