Service booklet (Max Frisch)
Dienstbüchlein is a work by the Swiss writer Max Frisch from 1974, named after the ID card of the same name for members of the Swiss Army . In it he subjects his experiences during active service to a critical appraisal.
Classification in the overall work
The service book is a reinterpretation of the time that Frisch had already described in the leaves from the bread sack . While Frisch took a patriotic stance at the time and advocated armed national defense, he now primarily addressed the cooperation between Switzerland and Nazi Germany, the Nazi-friendly attitude of certain circles, the mechanisms of the army hierarchy and the economic and social grievances in Switzerland .
With the service booklet , Frisch finally positioned himself as an army critic. In his later work he took up the same subject again in Switzerland without an army? A palaver that can be seen in the context of the popular initiative “For a Switzerland without an army and for a comprehensive peace policy” of the GSoA , which was voted on on November 26, 1989.
Book edition
- Service booklet . Suhrkamp (st 205), Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-36705-6