Albert Wass

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Albert Wass, passport photo around 1943
Albert Wass Monument in Harkány . The portrayal of Wass as a national poet is typical of recent times and was mainly promoted by Viktor Orbán's Fidesz government.

Albert Wass de Graf Czege (* 8. January 1908 in Válaszút , Austria-Hungary ; † 17th February 1998 in Astor , Florida, United States) was a Hungarian writer and poet folkish embossing from Transylvania .

Life

Wass was born as the son of the Hungarian landowner and Honvéd governor Andreas Graf Wass de Czege and Helene Countess Wass de Czege, born Baroness Bánffy de Losoncz . He grew up on the Szentgotthárd family estate in Transylvania. He then studied forestry and horticulture. In the national-conservative Horthy regime he was employed as a state forest inspector during the temporary re-connection of Northern Transylvania to Hungary.

In 1946 he was sentenced to death in Romania for war crimes because he had been shown to be responsible for the shooting of prisoners who were detained on his family's estate. It was a group of 15 people, consisting of Jewish and Romanian civilians. These allegations against Wass were also confirmed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center . He himself denied involvement in the crime, among other things, in a résumé written in 1979 for the US Department of Justice.

Albert Wass' coat of arms

One of his best-known stories is Kard és kasza (English sword and scythe), which uses an autobiographical family history of several generations to provide a subjective overview of Hungarian history from 1050 to the 20th century. In 1940 he received the Hungarian Baumgarten Prize for the novel Wolfsgrube , written in 1934 . From 1944 he stayed in Germany , in 1952 he emigrated from Hamburg to the USA . His works were banned under the socialist government of Hungary due to their ethnic nationalism and anti-Semitism and could only appear in Hungary after the fall of the Wall ; until then Wass was practically unknown in Hungary. With the resurgence of revisionist and völkisch currents, Wass' popularity increased in Hungary and in the Hungarian population of neighboring countries since the 1990s. In several places, on the initiative of conservative, national and right-wing extremists - above all the Fidesz government and with the participation of local politicians from the Jobbik party - Wass monuments were erected. His anti-Semitic fable A patkányok honfoglalása - Tanulságos mese fiatal magyaroknak (German: The land grabbing of the rats. A lesson for young Hungarians ) is particularly popular among right-wing extremists .

Works

  • 1934: Farkasverem (Wolfsgrube)
  • 1940: Csaba
  • 1940: Mire a fák megnőnek (Until the trees grew )
  • 1940: Jönnek! (They are coming!)
  • 1941: A titokzatos őzbak (The mysterious roebuck)
  • 1941: Csalódás (disappointment - in Ünnep, August 15, 1941)
  • 1943: A kastély árnyékában (In the shadow of the castle)
  • 1943: Egyedül a világ ellen , (Alone against the world, novel), Nemzeti Könyvtar. 88 Budapest
  • 1943: Vérben és viharban (In the blood and storm, novel. Overview of the Hungarian industry and trade vd land acquisition until today.), Nemzeti Könyvtar. 91/92 Budapest
  • 1944: Tavaszi szél és más színművek (Spring wind and other plays)
  • 1945: Valaki tévedett (someone was wrong) - short stories 1945–1949
  • 1945: A költő és a macska (The poet and the cat) - stories
  • 1947: A rézkígyó (copper snake)
  • 1949: Zsoltár és trombitaszó (Psalms and Trumpets) - novellas, skits, letters
  • 1949: Adjátok vissza a hegyeimet! - German: Give me back my mountains. Thomas, Zurich 1949.
  • 1951: Ember az országút szélén (man on the edge of the street)
  • 1952: Elvész a nyom - German: The trail is lost. Translated from the Hungarian by Charlotte Uilacky. Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1958.
  • 1953: Tizenhárom almafa (Thirteen apple trees)
  • 1958: Az Antikrisztus és a pásztorok (The Antichrist and the Shepherds)
  • 1959: A funtineli boszorkány (The Witch of Funtinel), Karpat: Cleveland / Ohio
  • 1964: Átoksori kísértetek (Spirits of the Ban )
  • 1965: Elvásik a veres csillag (The red star turns pale)
  • 1967: Magukrahagyottak (The Alone )
  • 1974: Kard és kasza (sword and scythe)
  • 1975: Magyar örökségünk (Our Hungarian Heritage) - studies, short stories, interviews
  • 1978: Halálos köd Holtember partján (Deadly Fog on the Bank of a Dead)
  • 1977: Documented Facts and figures on Transylvania . Comp. by The Danubian Research Center and The Transylvanian World Federation. Under the supervision of Albert Wass de Czege moderator. [With Kt. U. Ktskizzen.]. The Danubian Press: Astor, Fla.
  • 1985: Hagyaték (The Legacy)
  • 1989: Te és a világ (You and the world) - short stories

Web links

Commons : Albert Wass  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume 23 (Graefliche Häuser B, Volume IV), Limburg an der Lahn 1960, p. 492.
  2. ↑ http://www.ziaruldemures.ro/fullnews.php?ID=7427
  3. ↑ CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT-HÄUER: No place for Nazi victims
  4. ↑ Wass Albert 1979-ben írt rövid önéletrajza ( Memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( Albert Wass wrote a short autobiography in 1979 , Hungarian)
  5. ^ Symbolic figures , essay by Krisztian Ungváry, Budapester Zeitung of January 30, 2012 ( Memento of March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The Hungarian media supervisory authority NMHH issued a fine against the broadcaster Arlói Jóléti Szolgálat Közalapítvánnyal for broadcasting the text.
  7. ↑ Google search for original Hungarian title
personal data
SURNAME Wass, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wass von Szentegyed and Czege, Count Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Válaszút , Kingdom of Hungary, now Romania
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1998
Place of death Astor , Florida