Ervin Šinko

Ervin Šinko (Hungarian: Ervin Sinkó ; actually Franz Spitzer ; born October 5, 1898 in Apatin , Austria-Hungary ; † March 26, 1967 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) was a Hungarian-speaking Yugoslavian writer and professor. The central subject of his work is the Hungarian Revolution of 1919 . In addition to the pseudonym Ervin Šinko , he also wrote under the pseudonym YXZ

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He came from a Hungarian family of Jewish origin. Šinko went to high school. Eventually he joined the social democratic labor movement. He was still in school when the First World War began. After his entry into the army in 1916, he was sent to the Eastern Front . There he was interested in the Russian Revolution . After the war, Šinko lived in Budapest . There he was invited to the house of Béla Balázs to the Budapest “Sunday Circle”, which was led by György Lukács. He was a member of the KPU and in 1919 in the People's Commissariat for Education .

In 1919 he took part in the Hungarian council revolution and became the commander of the city of Kecskemét . After their suppression, Šinko stayed in hiding in Budapest for about a month and helped Georg Lukács with the party organization. After a few years of emigration in Vienna , he returned to Yugoslavia in 1926, to the Vojvodina region . In exile he wrote his novel The Optimists . The novel describes the events of the Hungarian Soviet Revolution of 1918/1919.

In 1932, Šinko went to Paris to publish his manuscript . Here he met the former Hungarian Prime Minister Mihály Károlyi . As a liberal, he was also driven into exile. Karolyi recommended the manuscript to Romain Rolland . In Moscow, Rolland campaigned for Šinko to be invited to the Soviet Union and so in 1935 Šinko moved to Moscow. Initially, Šinko and his wife were courteously welcomed as guests of the Society for Cultural Connections with Abroad . But later he found it difficult to earn a living. Šinko's wife found a job as a radiologist , but the hoped-for novel was not published and his wife's income was barely enough for both of them. During this time, Šinko met personalities such as Béla Kun , Maxim Gorki , Michail Kolzow and Isaac Babel . At a trial by Šinko against the Soviet film company Mosfilm , his friend Isaac Babel testified against him for his own protection. The atmosphere of political censorship and conformism in the supposedly socialist Soviet Union peaked at the time of the Moscow trials . When their residence permits were finally not renewed in 1937, they returned to Paris without any publication.

In the same year Šinko moved on to Zagreb . During the Second World War he took part in the partisan fight under the code name Franjo Spitzer and was in an Italian camp on an Adriatic island a. a. imprisoned with the later Belgrade journalist Aleksandar Lebl. After the war, Šinko became a professor of Hungarian literature at the University of Novi Sad .

Fonts

• Optimisti: Roman jedne revolucije , Zagreb: Zora, 1954 (naslov originala Optimisták)
• Optimisták: történelmi regény 1918/19-ből , Budapest: Magvető, 1979 (first: Novi Sad: Forum, 1965). ISBN 9632708571 (Hungarian. A German translation is pending : Die Optimisten. Historical novel from the years 1918-1919 )
• Novel of a novel. Moscow Diary 1935-1937 . Berlin: Das Arsenal, 1990 ISBN 3-921810-88-4 (first: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik Köln, 1962)

literature

• Kornélia Papp: Remigrants in the Soviet Zone, GDR and in Hungary after 1945 . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-552-1 , p.?.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ervin Šinko in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ervin Šinko in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Šinko, Ervin | Hrvatska enciklopedija. Retrieved October 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Kornélia Papp: Remigrants in the Soviet Zone / GDR and in Hungary after 1945: a comparison .
3. ↑ http://www.wsws.org/de/1999/jun1999/sink-j16.shtml
4. ↑ Hungarian Literature Abroad , at Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár (MEK)