István Eörsi

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István Eörsi

István Eörsi [ ˈiʃtvaːn ˈørʃi ] (born  June 16, 1931 in Budapest , †  October 13, 2005 ibid) was a Hungarian poet , playwright , prose writer , translator and political essayist .

Life

Eörsi comes from a Jewish intellectual family who survived the Holocaust. He studied English and German in Budapest and then worked as an AHS teacher at a Budapest grammar school. In his younger years he wrote for a youth newspaper of the Communist Party, at the time he was considered a staunch Marxist and even wrote a poem on the death of Stalin . He later declared himself to be the determined opponent of the dictatorship .

Eörsi was a student of the philosopher Georg Lukács , whose autobiography Eörsi published in 1980 in dialogic form. He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in 1956 at the age of 25 for participating in the Hungarian uprising and was given amnesty in 1960 after 3½ years. After that he was initially banned from publishing and mostly worked as a theater dramaturge and translator . Eörsi translated into Hungarian poems by Goethe , Heine , Brecht , Shakespeare , Allen Ginsberg , Shelley , Keats , Puschkin , Ernst Jandl and Lorca .

1983/84 he received a scholarship ( DAAD ) in West Berlin . There, his compatriot George Tabori premiered his play The Interrogation at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz . In 1986 he returned to Hungary, after which he lived in Budapest and Berlin. After the political change in 1989, Eörsi emerged as a pointed critic of the flare-up of nationalism and other unfortunate conditions. He was a founding member of the liberal SZDSZ and later resigned after differences of opinion.

In 2005 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize , the highest literary award in Hungary.

Works (selection)

Theater plays (in German translation):

  • The interrogation . 1965 (revised 1983/84), U: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz 1984, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • Barrels . 1968, DE: Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal 1991, Frankfurt / M .: Publishing house of the authors
  • The statesman and his shadow . 1972, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • The victim . 1975, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • Jólan and the men . 1977, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • The compromise . 1981, U: Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück 1985, Frankfurt / M .: Publishing house of the authors
  • His master's voice . 1st version 1984; 2nd version 1990, U: Sátékszin-Theater Budapest 1990, 3rd version His Master's Voice ., U: Theater mbH Vienna 1998, Frankfurt / M .: Publishing House of the Authors
  • The bet . 1986, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • Variation on Oedipus . 1990, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • Job rehearsals . 1997, U: Schillertheater Wuppertal 1999, Frankfurt / M .: Publishing house of the authors
  • The intervention . Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors
  • On the morning of my death . 2001, Frankfurt / M .: publishing house of the authors

Prose (in German translation):

  • At Phalaris . Reinbek 1987
  • I caught a fly with the minister . Klagenfurt / Salzburg 1991
  • Remembering the good old days . Reinbek 1991
  • Days with Gombrowicz . Leipzig 1997
  • Job and Heine. Passengers in no man's land . Klagenfurt 1999.
  • The enigmatic charm of freedom . Frankfurt / Main 2003.
  • In a closed room . Frankfurt / Main 2006.

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SURNAME Eörsi, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2005
Place of death Budapest