Switzerland as a Model for Europe: The Views of Thomas Mann, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch
Abstract
During the first years of his exile Thomas Mann regarded Switzerland as a paradigm of a European country and an anticipation of Europe for its honest and decent, democratic, federal and multi-lingual culture. Later, however, he criticized the attitude of neutrality of Switzerland and sees this country because of its “non-intervention” as a patient sufferer, indeed, as an accomplice of National Socialism. Friedrich Dürrenmatt projects in his dramas, for which Switzerland is used as the background, the reality of Europe. Max Frisch went on numerous journeys over the years from 1946 to 1949 after World War II through the defeated Europe and recorded his impressions in his Tagebücher. In this article, various different perspectives of these three authors on Switzerland as a model for Europe will be compared and analysed.
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