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Die wichtigsten Essays und Reden von Dürrenmatt über Kunst und Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Politik, Literatur und Theater aus den 70er und 80er Jahren zum erstenmal in Buchform. ›Vallon de l'Ermitage‹, die essayistische Erzählung vom idyllischen Tal oberhalb Neuchâtels, in welches es Dürrenmatt einst zog. Die 1984 in Frankfurt am Main gehaltene Poetik-Vorlesung ›Kunst und Wissenschaft‹, »eine kleine Geschichte des menschlichen Geistes«, vom Einfall zur Vision zur Idee. Die Rede zur Verleihung des Schiller-Gedächtnis-Preises des Landes Baden-Württemberg 1986, ›Das Theater als moralische Anstalt heute: Schillers Vorschlag, der Staat solle das Theater unterhalten und das Theater den Staat unterhalten helfen. Ein in den zweihundert Jahren, seit es von Schiller empfohlen wurde, ›höchst merkwürdig modifiziertes Geschäft‹. Die Dankesrede zum Georg-Büchner-Preis 1986, Georg Büchner und der Satz vom Grunde: ein Blick zurück ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert, ›als sich die Triebräder des wissenschaftlichen und technischen Zeitalters langsam in Bewegung setzten‹.

177 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.

Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.

He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn". Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

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