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(Almost) Frisch by Max Frisch: a Jaguar 420

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Created on March 13, 2022

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Volker Schlöndorff talks about Max Frisch and his trips in the Jaguar 420

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The space for the Jaguar 420 is almost ready

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The space for the Jaguar 420 is being prepared

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Preparation of the Jaguar 420 devotional collection

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Photos from Frisch's car life and of course the pipe

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Panel discussion with Philipp Portmann, Daniel Geissmann and Volker Schlöndorff

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On the screen you can see Max Frisch (right) and Volker Schlöndorff with the Jaguar 420

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Volker Schlöndorff has many fond memories of the Jaguar 420

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Film director Volker Schlöndorff talks about Max Frisch and his Jaguar 420

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Director Volker Schlöndorff at the handover of the keys

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The handover of the Jaguar 420 is of course documented

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Although not a classic car fan, Volker Schlöndorff was able to get a lot out of the Jaguar 420

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After around 30 years, Volker Schlöndorff is now passing on Max Frisch's Jaguar 420 to the Lucerne Museum of Transport

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Director Volker Schöndorff, who drove the 1967 Jaguar 420 for almost 30 years

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Volker Schlöndorff received the key ring from filmmaker Werner Herzog

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Volker Schlöndorff and Daniel Geissmann at the vehicle presentation at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne

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Volker Schlöndorff, Georg Dönni and Christian Jenny at the handover of the 1967 Jaguar 420

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The picture shows how the Jaguar 420 was packed onto the trailer for the journey from Hamburg to Lucerne

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Volker Schlöndorff at the handover of the car in Hamburg

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Great cinema at the ceremonial handover of Max Frisch's Jaguar 420 in the I-Max cinema of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne

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The film "Homo Faber" was shown at the handover ceremony

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Jaguar 420 G (1967) - Six-cylinder engine with 260 SAE horsepower and prices between 31,500 and 33,500 francs - Geneva Motor Show 1967

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Jaguar 420 (1967) - economical use of flowers to create attractive contrasts - Geneva Motor Show 1967

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Summary

The Swiss writer Max Frisch loved his Jaguar 420. He drove it until almost the day he died, but two months before his death he gave it to the German director Volker Schlöndorff, who had it in his care for around 30 years. Now the filmmaker has also decided that it is time to pass on the car and has bequeathed it to the Lucerne Museum of Transport. The handover of the car is recounted in this report with lots of pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

For the trip up the Zürichberg or over the Albis Pass
A very special key fob
Too big for the Max Frisch Foundation
Not entirely problem-free transfer
Ceremonial handover

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The Swiss author Max Frisch (1911-1991) drove a Jaguar 420 limousine for over 20 years. The author, who was born in Zurich in 1911, then gave his car to the German film director and Oscar winner (The Tin Drum) Volker Schlöndorff as a thank you for the film adaptation of his novel "Homo Faber". The director is 83 years young this year and has decided to donate the 1967 Jaguar 420 to the Museum of Transport in Lucerne. The car, together with many devotional objects from Max Frisch, can now be admired in the car hall at the Museum of Transport in Lucerne. At the handover, director Schlöndorff recalls: "Sometimes Max would take the car out of the garage and we would drive towards the Dolder, or up the mountain on the other side of Lake Zurich to a country inn.I also owned two Jaguars from the seventies and eighties. He must have remembered that, because he gave me the car just two months before he died, which was a great honor for me on the one hand, but on the other hand it raised the question: What am I going to do with this classic car? But then I grew to love the car, not only because of my friend Max, but also because it's a wonderful car and drives beautifully, and when I look at it now, I tell myself that I'm pretty stupid to give it away. Joking aside, it's a great honor for me to be represented in this museum. I've heard that every schoolchild comes here at least once, so in the end the car will have had more visitors than all my films put together.I've already discovered handwritten letters of mine in the display case that I can't remember ever having written. That alone is a wonderful reward.I'm now recreating what you can see in the photo for the handover of the keys to Deputy Director Daniel Geissmann. Max Frisch walked up to his car just two months before he died and said to me, I don't need a car where I'm going now, the Jaguar is now yours and handed me the keys.... so and now it's yours, Mr. Geissmann."

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