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.
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Klinger was a man of vigorous moral character and full of fine feeling, though the bitter experiences and deprivations of his youth are largely reflected in his dramas. It was one of his earliest works, "Sturm und Drang" (1776), which gave its name to this artistic epoch. In addition to this tragedy and "Die Zwillinge" (1776), the chief plays of his early period of passionate fervour and restless "storm and stress" are "Die neue Arria" (1776), "Simsone Grisaldo" (1776) and "Stilpo und seine Kinder" (1780). To a later period belongs the fine double tragedy of "Medea in Korinth" and "Medea auf dem Kaukasos" (1791). In Russia, he devoted himself mainly to the writing of philosophical romances, of which the best known are "Fausts Leben, Taten und Höllenfahrt" (1791), "Geschichte Giafars des Barmeciden" (1792) and "Geschichte Raphaeis de Aquillas" (1793). This series was closed in 1803 with "Betrachtungen und Gedanken über verschiedene Gegenstände der Welt und der Literatur". In these works, Klinger gives calm and dignified expression to the leading ideas which the period of Sturm und Drang had bequeathed to German classical literature.Klingers works were published in twelve volumes (1809–1815), also 1832–1833 and 1842. The most recent edition is in eight volumes (1878–1880); but none of these is complete. A selection will be found in A. Sauer, "Stürmer und Dränger", vol. 1. (1883). See E. Schmidt, "Lenz und Klinger" (1878); M. Rieger, "Klinger in der Sturm-und Drangperiode" (1880); and "Klinger in seiner Reife" (1896).