Max Frisch
"I'm Not Stiller" started with a print-run that provided for sales of 3,000 in its first year, but thanks to strong and growing reader demand it later became the first book published by Suhrkamp to top one million copies. The next novel, "Homo Faber", was another best seller, with four million copies of the German language version produced by 1998. "The Fire Raisers" and "Andorra" are the most successful German language plays of all time, with respectively 250 and 230 productions up till 1996, according to an estimate made by the literary critic Volker Hage. The two plays, along with "Homo Faber" became curriculum favourites with schools in the German-speaking middle European countries. Apart from a few early works, most of Frisch's books and plays have been translated into around ten languages, while the most translated of all, "Homo Faber", has been translated into twenty-five languages.
Louis Reingold
According to Rejzen, Reingold joined a Yiddish dramatic club in 1895 and wrote two one-act plays for them. On December 5, 1902, his play Hirsh Lekert was performed by a dramatic theater club for a benefit of the Bund in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where he was an executive member. He also wrote for the Yiddish Theatre Company. He read a play called "The Freedom Fighter" for Yiddish actress Bertha Kalich and her husband, theater manager Leopold Spachner, and they asked him to write another play. This work, titled "Zindike neshomes", was apparently lost by Kalich and Spachner, but later performed by Kalich with Morris Moshkovitsh on March 5, 1917 at Gertner's Pavilion Theatre in Chicago. In 1925, Reingold sent a similar play, "Neshome", to the Library of Congress for copyright registration. Reingold also gave his play "Di naye velt" (also known as "Di farkerte velt") to Jacob P. Adler, who took it without paying Reingold and produced it at the Grand Theatre in 1919 - according to Reingold, Adler did this under the name "Two generations" and credited another playwright, Z. Libin. Reingold's play, "Dos milkhome kind", was produced at the Empire Theatre in Chicago in 1918 by Misha and Lucy German, and also performed by [Leon?] Blank in Cleveland and by Jacob Kalich and Dina Feinman in Boston. According to Kalmen Marmor, Reingold's plays "Idisher velt khurbn" (Jewish world destruction) and "Tekhter fun Ukraine" (daughters of Ukraine) were produced in 1919. Reingold's play "Sha, sha, der rebe geyt" was produced at Elving's Metropolitan Theatre in Newark, NJ in 1924; and also in New York City, Chicago and Detroit. "Tsurisene hertser" (also known as "Forgotten children") was produced at the Lyric Theatre in Brooklyn, NY in 1924, and as a benefit at the Littman's People's Theatre in Detroit in the 1924-25 season. At least three other plays by Reingold were performed at Littman's: "The Only Sister/Ir eyntsike shvester" ( four-performances in the 1926-27 season); "Libes flamen" (three performances in the 1931-32 season), and "The Rabbi's Daughter", which lists Samuel H. Cohen as a co-author (two performances in the 1935-36 season).