Switzerland without an army? A Palaver

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Switzerland without an Army? A Palaver (German: Schweiz ohne Armee? Ein Palaver) is a prose text in dialogue form by the Swiss writer Max Frisch, published in 1989. It was adapted for the stage under the title Jonas and His Veteran and premiered on 19 October 1989 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Benno Besson. The work was written in the context of a campaign to abolish the Swiss Armed Forces, led by the Group for a Switzerland without an Army. In the form of a palaver between an unnamed grandfather, who is equipped with details from Frisch's own biography, and his grandson Jonas, the sense and nonsense of the Swiss army, the state and future of Swiss society, and the prospects of the popular vote are discussed. With Switzerland without an Army?, Frisch continued his critical examination of Switzerland and its historical special status, which he had conducted in numerous texts. He once again addressed his own military service as a gunner during the Second World War, which he had treated in a largely patriotic and uncritical manner in Blätter aus dem Brotsack (1940), while he had revised this attitude in his later work Dienstbüchlein (1974). Although Frisch's it is considered to be of little literary significance and the stage adaptation received a sceptical reception from theatre critics, Switzerland without an Army? became a political issue in his home country. Frisch once again found himself at the centre of public debates that revolved around his person, the performance of the play, and the film Palaver, Palaver that accompanied its creation. Switzerland without an Army? is Frisch's last extensive text.

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