Endre Ady

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Endre Ady was already in the first edition (1908) of Nyugat represented
Ady on a Hungarian banknote (1975)

Endre Ady de Diósad , Hungarian diósadi Ady Endre [ ˈɒdi ˈɛndrɛ ] (born November 22, 1877 in Érmindszent , Sathmar County , Austria-Hungary ; † January 27, 1919 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian poet . The renewal of Hungarian art poetry is mainly thanks to him.

Life

Ady came from a noble but impoverished family. He studied in Debrecen , then left the unloved city and worked as a journalist in Oradea . There he met his lover, Adél Brüll (a married woman, called Léda in the poems ), and traveled with her to Paris , where he got to know the latest trends in European literature. Ady started working for the Budapesti Napló newspaper , in which he published more than 500 articles and many poems.

He became interested in politics and became a member of a radical group called Huszadik Század (Twentieth Century). With the experiences from Paris he developed a new style step by step, the so-called critical homeland love , i. In other words, through his poems he wanted to expose Hungary's socio-political problems and bring about a political reorganization. The volumes of poetry Új versek (1906) and Vér és arany (1907) caused a sensation. Ady had to quit his job at Budapesti Napló and went back to Paris. From 1908 Ady wrote for the new magazine Nyugat (The West), for which he was to work for the rest of his life, from 1912 as one of the editors. Also in 1908 Ady founded the literary circle A Holnap (Das Morgen) in Großwardein . In 1912 he ended his relationship with Adél Brüll. In 1914 he met twenty-year-old Berta Boncza, with whom he had been in correspondence since 1911. They married in 1915 against their father's will. In his poems she appears as Csinszka . Ady was heavily attacked, both for his political, unpatriotic attitude and for some erotic poems. To the displeasure of the poet, some poets joined him, as he was considered a kind of trendsetter among the young. With his illness ( syphilis ) his literary strength waned, but he raised his voice against Hungarian nationalism during the First World War.

The author and poet Mariska Ady (1888–1977) was a niece of Endre Ady.

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Ady's poetry was heavily influenced by French symbolism and Baudelaire and Verlaine. His work reflects the decadent end times and social injustice of the Hungarian monarchy. Endre Ady was close friends with the Romanian writer Octavian Goga , who came from Transylvania . He had translated his works into Romanian .

reception

In spite of such undertakings, Ady's international reception does not keep pace with the rank he has in his home country, as the post-poet Wilhelm Droste (Budapest) notes in his afterword from 2011 to a renewed attempt to bring Ady's poetry to Germany: "As undisputed as Ady is still today in Hungary the classical poet of the modern age and pioneer of a literary language of the 20th century, it has so far not been successful despite the most diverse attempts to make his work audible and understandable in Europe or even worldwide." In Romania Today, Ady is mainly considered the poet of the Ier swamps. One of the previous writers of Ady's German tongue is the Jewish exile author Alfred Marnau (1918–1999) from Pressburg (Pozsony), who also translated Christopher Marlowe.

Ady Endre's childhood home in Érmindszent

Various museums bear his name, such as the Endre Ady Museum in Oradea, the Endre Ady Museum in Budapest and the Endre Ady Érmindszent Memorial Museum . His place of birth, Érmindszent, now bears his name.

Works

  • Versek (poems), 1899
  • Még egyszer (Again), 1903
  • Új versek (New Poems), 1906
  • Vér és arany (Blood and Gold), 1907
  • Az Illés szekerén (On Elias' Chariot), 1909
  • Szeretném, ha szeretnének (To love to be loved), 1910
  • A Minden Titkok versei (Poems of All Secrets), 1911
  • A menekülő Élet (The Fleeing Life), 1912
  • A magunk szerelme (Our love), 1913
  • Ki látott tight? (Who saw me?), 1914
  • A halottak élén (Chasing Death), 1918
  • Blood and Gold, Selection, 1962
  • Poems, 1965
  • Poems, 1977
  • Human inhumanity, selection, 1979
  • To God's left hand. Selected poems, 1981
  • Because I fought for others. Selected poems 2
  • The kiss of Rosalia Mihaly. Poems and short stories, 1988
  • Drift. Poems, 1998
  • Give me your Eyes. Poems. Hungarian German. Transferred and ed. by Wilhelm Droste. Wuppertal: Arco Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-938375-46-4

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personal data
SURNAME Ady, Endre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ady de Diósad, Endre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Érmindszent , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1919
Place of death Budapest