Dürrenmatt

American  

[door-uhn-maht, dyoor-, dyr-uhn-maht] / ˈdʊər ənˌmɑt, ˈdyʊər-, ˈdür ənˌmɑt /

noun

1. Friedrich 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.

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Dürrenmatt British  

/ ˈdyrənmat /

noun

1. Friedrich (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and writer of detective stories, noted for his grotesque and paradoxical treatment of the modern world: author of The Visit (1956) and The Physicists (1962)

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Example Sentences

In 2015 she starred in “The Visit,” a long-aborning musical with a book by McNally and a score by Kander and Ebb that was based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play.

From Los Angeles Times

“Twilight” adapts a 1958 Friedrich Dürrenmatt detective story.

From New York Times

I love work that has a moral conundrum at the heart of it, so I love Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit” and Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.”

From Los Angeles Times

Also in the 1950s, he directed Mr. Scofield as Hamlet; Gielgud in “Measure for Measure,” “The Winter’s Tale” and “The Tempest”; the Lunts in Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit” on Broadway; and Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a revival of “Titus Andronicus,” which did much for the reputation of what had been regarded as Shakespeare’s crudest play.

From New York Times

Jill Eikenberry, another classmate, who went on to star on “L.A. Law,” saw signs of that determination during their second year, when Winkler appeared in a production of “The Physicists,” a 1962 play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

From New York Times