Editing Max Frisch (section)

== Early years and education ==
Max Rudolf Frisch was born on 15 May 1911 in [[Zurich]], Switzerland, the second son of Franz Bruno Frisch, an architect, and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth).{{sfn|Waleczek|2001|p=}} He had a sister, Emma (1899–1972), his father's daughter by a previous marriage, and a brother, Franz, eight years his senior (1903–1978). The family lived modestly, their financial situation deteriorating after the father lost his job during the [[First World War]]. Frisch had an emotionally distant relationship with his father, but was close to his mother. While at secondary school Frisch started to write drama, but failed to get his work performed and he subsequently destroyed his first literary works. While he was at school he met [[Werner Coninx]] (1911–1980), who later became a successful artist and collector. The two men formed a lifelong friendship.{{cn|date=May 2023}} 

In the 1930/31 academic year Frisch enrolled at the [[University of Zurich]] to study [[German studies|German literature and linguistics]]. There he met professors who gave him contact with the worlds of publishing and journalism, and was influenced by [[Robert Faesi]] (1883–1972) and [[Theophil Spoerri]] (1890–1974), both writers and professors at the university. Frisch had hoped the university would provide him with the practical underpinnings for a career as a writer, but became convinced that university studies would not provide this.{{sfn|Waleczek|2001|p=21}} In 1932, when financial pressures on the family intensified, Frisch abandoned his studies. In 1936 Max Frisch studied architecture at the [[ETH Zurich]] and graduated in 1940. In 1942 he set up his own architecture business.