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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Swiss author and dramatist (1921–1990)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 January 1921
- Died
- 14 December 1990
- Place of birth
- Konolfingen
- Place of death
- Neuchâtel
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Friedrich
- Family name
- Dürrenmatt
- Father
- Reinhold Dürrenmatt
- Mother
- Hulda Dürrenmatt
- Spouse
- Lotti Dürrenmatt, Charlotte Kerr
- Sibling
- Verena Dürrenmatt
- Genre
- prose
- Occupation
- playwright, writer, painter, screenwriter, poet, graphic artist, television writer, film screenwriter, film director, film actor, theatre critic, director
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Native language
- Swiss German
- Religion
- reformed
- Awards
- Schillerpreis der Stadt Mannheim, Schiller prize, Franz-Grillparzer-Preis, Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal, Q105870591, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Carl Zuckmayer Medal, Jean-Paul-Preis, Georg Büchner Prize, Schiller Memorial Prize, Ernst Robert Curtius Award, honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
- archives at
- Swiss Literary Archives
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
- cause of death
- heart failure
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- University of Zurich, University of Bern
- end of work period
- 1990
- ethnic group
- Swiss
- has works in the collection
- Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German, Swiss German
- manner of death
- natural causes
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Guggisberg
- name in native language
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Reinhold Dürrenmatt
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Physicists, The Visit, Suspicion, The Judge and His Hangman, Q602782, A Dangerous Game, The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, Der Doppelgänger
- place of burial
- Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel
- start of work period
- 1943
- student of
- Richard Herbertz
- topic's main category
- Category:Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- writing language
- German
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