Béla Révész (writer)

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Révész Béla was already represented in the first edition (1908) of Nyugat with a novella

Béla Révész (born February 17, 1876 in Esztergom , Kingdom of Hungary, † 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a Hungarian writer.

Life

Révész attended grammar schools in Esztergom and Budapest . In 1905 he met Endre Ady , with whom he befriended and in whose memory he wrote several monographs after his untimely death . Révész turned to the Hungarian labor movement and wrote for the social democratic newspaper Népszava . In 1908 he also helped found the culture magazine Nyugat . In 1919 he got involved as head of department for music and theater in the commissariat for the education system of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and had to flee to Vienna after its suppression . At the beginning of the 1920s, some works were published in German translation. In 1922 he was able to return to Hungary and work as a journalist there again. In 1931 Révész received the Baumgarten Prize. After publication restrictions were imposed on him for anti-Semitic reasons, he studied the biography of Max Nordau .

When the Eichmann Command and its Hungarian helpers deported the Jews from Hungary to the concentration camps in 1944 , Révész was also taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed there .

Fonts (selection)

  • A nagy börtön , 1907
  • Találkozás Hamupipökével , Stories, Budapest 1909, with 31 illustrations by Lajos Kozma
  • A lárva mögött , Roman, 1911
  • Vonagló falvak , novel, 1914
  • Wrestling Villages: A Hungarian novel , German by Stefan J. Klein, Berlin: Rowohlt, 1920
  • Beethoven. A fantasy , translated from d. Hungarian. v. Stefan J. Klein, Karl Wolff, Munich 1919 (Hungarian 1917)
  • Miniatűrök , 1919
  • The big dungeon. Stories , trans. From d. Hungarian. by Stefan J. Klein, Munich: Wolff, 1920
  • Ady Endre: életéröl, verseiröl, jelleméröl , 1922
  • Ady Endre tragédiája; a háború, a házasság, a forradalom évei , 1924
  • Ady és Léda. Ady Endre több, mint száz ismeretlen levelével, verskézirataival, 21 fényképpel és egyéb mellékletekkel , 1934
  • Max Nordau élete , Kispest, Az író kiadása, 1940

Web links

Wikisource: Béla Révész  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Béla Révész  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gyula Borbándi: The cultural policy of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (PDF; 1.6 MB), in: Hungary Yearbook. Journal for interdisciplinary hungarology . Edited by Zsolt K. Lengyel, Volume 5, 1973 ISBN 3-929906-40-6
personal data
SURNAME Révész, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Esztergom
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp