Thomas Strässle
Autorenfoto zu Thomas Strässle
© Ayse Yavas

Thomas Strässle

Thomas Strässle, born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1972, studied literature, philosophy and musicology in Zurich, Cambridge and Paris. Alongside this, he trained as a flautist. Today, he is the director of the transdisciplinary Y Institute at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and a professor of modern German and comparative literature at the University of Zurich. He is also president of the Max Frisch Foundation at ETH Zurich.
Thomas Strässle, born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1972, studied literature, philosophy and musicology in Zurich, Cambridge and Paris. Alongside this, he trained as a flautist. Today, he is the director of the transdisciplinary Y Institute at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and a professor of modern German and comparative literature at the University of Zurich. He is also president of the Max Frisch Foundation at ETH Zurich.

PUBLICATIONS

Latest first
Flight Novella
Year of Publication: 2024
Thomas SträssleYear of Publication: 2024

Flight Novella

Erfurt, 1965: two students meet at the ‘House of the Red Army’. She is from East Germany, 21 years old, he is Swiss, 23. They fall in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together, but...
Rights sold to:

Film rights optioned

»We Didn’t Do Well« – The Bachmann Frisch Correspondence
Year of Publication: 2022
Ingeborg Bachmann, Max FrischYear of Publication: 2022

»We Didn’t Do Well« – The Bachmann Frisch Correspondence

Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of Literary Prize of Gruppe 47 and cover star of Der Spiegel – is broadcasting the radio play Der gute Gott von...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Feltrinelli)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (speak low)

Questionnaire
Year of Publication: 2019
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2019

Questionnaire

»Do you consider yourself to be a good friend? Are you a good friend to yourself?« Twenty-three questions on the subject of friendship lie between these two queries. Max Frisch’s...

Rights sold to:

Russia (Libra), Netherlands (Borgerhoff-Lamberigts), Denmark (Basilisk), Sweden (Faethon), Czech Republic (Pulchra), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Georgia (Sulakauri)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

From the Berlin Journal
Year of Publication: 2014
Max FrischYear of Publication: 2014

From the Berlin Journal

The legendary Berlin Journal is one of the great treasures in Max Frisch’s posthumous papers. Frisch himself mandated that it not be published until twenty years after his...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), French world rights (Zoé), Italy (Armando Dadò), Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic (Archa), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook rights (DAV), German Book Club rights (Büchergilde Gutenberg)

DISCOVER

Optioned

Thomas Strässle’s Prose Debut Flight Novella Set to Be Adapted for the Screen

Thomas Strässle’s gripping story of a big love and a daring escape from East Germany is set to be made into a motion picture.