Ernő Szép

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Ernő Szép [ ˈɛrnøː seːp ] (born July 30, 1884 in Huszt , Austria-Hungary ; died October 2, 1953 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian-Jewish poet, writer and journalist.

Life

The son of a Jewish teacher grew up in poor circumstances. As a high school student in Debrecen , he made his first attempts at writing. He published a volume of poetry as early as 1902. Ernö Szép, who came to Budapest as a young man, became popular with his poems, chanson texts, newspaper columns and short stories. Older than Sándor Márai and Antal Szerb , the "great elegance", he was one of the founders of Hungarian modernism and worked for the literary magazine Nyugat ("West") founded in 1908 .

During the First World War he was a nurse and war correspondent. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun , Szép emigrated to Vienna for a short time in 1919. In the 1920s he was a celebrated playwright and contributor to the newspaper Az Újság (The Newspaper), a mouthpiece for bourgeois-liberal ideas.

In Emberszag (German: Three Weeks in 1944 or Broken World ) Szép describes his time as a Jewish slave laborer . In autumn 1944 he was ghettoized in one of the Budapest Jewish houses and obliged to do forced labor. In connection with the rescue operation of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg , Szép had received a Swedish protection passport . Wallenberg's department had issued a protest note three days after Széps was abducted. a. also used for him. As the holder of a protection pass, he was released from forced labor on November 8, 1944 and survived the war in one of the Swedish refuges. Impoverished and almost forgotten, he died in Budapest in 1953.

Szép wrote a total of four novels, as well as plays and poems. The novels Lila ákác (German: Purple Acacia ) and Ádámcsutka (German: Love in the Afternoon ), the Emberszag War Memories (German: Three Weeks in 1944 or Broken World ), the columnist text collections Hungarian Sketches and - together with texts by Antal Szerb and Gyula Krúdy - I loved a beautiful woman and several pieces.

Works

  • Hungarian sketches . Translated into German by Amélie Agoston. With 6 pen drawings by Schülein and a foreword by Kasimir Edschmid , Falken-Verlag, Darmstadt 1917
  • Lila ákác , 1919
    • Purple acacias. An old-fashioned novel , Drei-Masken-Verlag, Munich 1922 (filmed in 1934 by István Székely)
  • Dentist seeks dowry 10,000 , comedy. German Editing: Robert Vambery, Bloch, Berlin 1920
  • Sins. A book of conscience , Merlin-Verlag, Heidelberg 1928
  • The gold watch. A fairy tale in 3 acts , Marton Verlag, Berlin 1932
  • Ádámcsutka , 1935
    • The afternoon love . Novel. Translated from the Hungarian by Ernő Zeltner, dtv, Munich 2008
  • Emberszag , 1945
    • Three weeks in 1944 . German by Ernst Szep. Panorama publishing house, Vienna 1947
    • Broken world. Three weeks in 1944 . From the Hungarian by Ernő Zeltner, afterword Paul Lendvai , dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-26026-8 .
  • I loved a beautiful woman. Miniatures by Antal Szerb , Ernő Szép and Gyula Krúdy . Translated from the Hungarian by Ernő Zeltner, dtv, Munich 2011

Movie

  • István Székely (Steve Sekely, 1899–1979) filmed the comedy Lila ákác in 1934 and a second time in 1973.

literature

  • Christoph Gann: Raoul Wallenberg. Save as many people as you can . dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-30852-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ indication hunlit at, in the blurb of the DTV -Issue of Ádámcsutka is from 2008 erroneously as a place of death Sweden
  2. ↑ For them, everything about me is subversive in FAZ from November 29, 2013, page L1
  3. ↑ 1973 with Judit Halász , 2003 UNICEF ambassador for Hungary, and András Bálint
personal data
SURNAME Szép, Ernő
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian poet, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Huszt , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1953
Place of death Budapest