Skip to main content

Published on 19 May 2025

Friedrich Dürrenmatt – from Emmental to Broadway

5 January 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of Switzerland's greatest authors. Friedrich Dürrenmatt reached an audience of millions with his darkly satirical plays and crime novels, which continue to be read and performed all over the world. He was also a towering moral authority who turned a critical lens on his homeland, and left behind a significant body of paintings which are on public display in beautiful surroundings at the Dürrenmatt Centre in Neuchâtel.

Black and white portrait of Friedrich Dürrenmatt. An elderly man smiling in a suit and tie, with white hair and thick glasses, close-up in black and white.