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.
Moses Horowitz
He wrote no less than 169 plays, "Das Polishe Yingel" being his first dramatic production. According to the "Jewish Encyclopedia", among his more successful plays are: "Schlome Chochom", "Kuzri", "Chochmath Noshim", "Ben Hador", and "Jizius Mizrujym". Israil Bercovici also singles out his "Sabbatai Zvi" and "Tragedy of Tisza-Eszlar", both from 1884. Most of Horowitz's plays were historical, but he also wrote ""zeit piessen"" on topical subjects, such as a play about the Homestead Strike of 1892, one about a 1903 pogrom in Chişinău, and a distinctly socialist take on the 1889 Johnstown flood written while working with Boris Thomashefsky in Chicago. The most successful of his ""zeit piessen"" was "Tissa Eslar". Many of his dramas were composed in the course of a few days, and he utilized without hesitation whole scenes of foreign dramas. Though a successful playwright, Horowitz failed as an actor, and after he went to America he abandoned acting entirely.