If Friedrich Dürrenmatt is a household word, it is as a dramatist. Two plays in particular have insured him lasting fame: Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit of the Old Lady, 1956; translated as The Visit, 1962), a success worldwide, including...

Friedrich Durrenmatt was the leading German- language dramatist of the generation after Bertolt Brecht. He dominated German, Austrian, and Swiss repertoires and was familiar to audiences throughout Europe and North and South America. His plays reach...

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was the leading German-language dramatist of the generation after Bertolt Brecht. He dominated German, Austrian, and Swiss repertoires and was familiar to audiences throughout Europe and North and South America. His plays...

The works of the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) combine surface realism with an absurd and almost surreal artistic vision, expressed in an abundance of oppressive, distorted, often ironic detail. Friedrich Dürrenmatt was...