Adolf Frisé (29 May 1910 in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia − 2 May 2003 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German journalist, author and editor.
[1] Frisé grew up in Viersen in the Lower Rhine region where he attended the Erasmus von Rotterdam Gymnasium.
Musil had published the first two volumes of his acclaimed novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities) in 1930 (vol.
In 1992 the first CD-ROM format edition of materials from the unpublished estate of Robert Musil appeared, with Adolf Frisé as co-editor.
In 1974 Frisé became a professor at the University of Vienna and in 1979 was named honorary President of the International Robert Musil Society, today based in Klagenfurt.
Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1992 In addition, Frisé published numerous single-volume editions of the works of Robert Musil.