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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen near Berne in 1921, as son of a protestant minister. He studied philosophy in Berne and Zurich, lived and worked in Neuchâtel, where he died in 1990. Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s books have been published in 44 languages.

»Dürrenmatt has always been too impulsive for his times but the chaotic world has quickly caught up with him. That’s why his work will last. The purifying force of his irony becomes the more important and useful – particularly because it is driven by the profound humanity that Dürrenmatt’s friends always knew in him.«Peter Brook

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