Eugene Szatmari

Eugen Szatmari (born January 23, 1892 in Budapest as Jenő Szatmári ; † 1952 in Hungary) was a journalist, translator, scriptwriter and screenwriter who wrote in German and Hungarian.

Life

Szatmari was married to Hollay Kamilla. He had a son, Mór.

In the early 1920s he wrote reports on Germany for the German-language Prager Tagblatt in Bohemia and also worked as an editor for the Berliner Tageblatt . In 1927 he wrote the opening volume of the 16-volume series Was nicht im “Baedeker” for Berlin, where he lived from 1925 to 1933, for Piper Verlag . He was also responsible for several scripts for German and Hungarian feature films, either alone or as part of a collective of authors.

In 1934 he returned to Hungary.

After 1945, journalistic activity was documented for the Basler Nachrichten and Hearst Newspapers, among others . In 1950 Szatmari was arrested; he died in prison in 1952.

Fonts

Books

The red Hungary. The Bolshevism in Budapest. Verlag Der Neue Geist, Leipzig 1920.
The Book of Berlin (= What is not in the "Baedeker" . Volume I, ZDB -ID 1021407-0 ). Piper, Munich 1927.
The great disasters. According to eyewitness reports. Piper, Munich 1928.

Scripts (selection)

German film productions:

Crimes of Passion (1921), Cserépy-Film Co. GmbH
A very rich man (1931/1932), Tobis Tonbild Syndicate
with co-authors Richard Oswald , Heinz Goldberg : Unheimlichegeschichte (1932)

Hungarian film productions:

with co-author Rózsi Meller: Én voltam ("I was it"; 1936)
with co-author József Babay: Öt óra 40 ("5 hours 40"; 1939)
with co-author Géza von Radványi : Sarajevo (1940)
with co-author Zoltán Szitnyai: Jelmezbál (costume ball, 1942)

literature

Wilhelm Kosch (founder): German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Volume 21: Dispute - Techim. 3rd, completely revised edition. Saur, Zurich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-908255-21-X .

Web links

Eugen Szatmari at filmportal.de (German film productions)
Eugen Szatmari in the Internet Movie Database (English) (Hungarian film productions)

Individual evidence

↑ The dates of life are given according to Eugen Szatmari in the Internet Movie Database . The date and place of death have not yet been verified. So too: German Literature Lexicon. Volume 21 (Streit bis Techim), Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2001, p. 489. From Csaba Nagy: A magyar emigráns irodalom lexikona (lexicon), Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest 2000, p. 917, at least it emerges that Szatmári died in Hungary.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Compare the entry in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (Hungarian Biographical Encyclopedia) ( digitized version): "A börtönben halt meg."
^ According to the German Literature Lexicon. Volume 21: Dispute - Techim. 2001, p. 489, a stay in Berlin from 1926 to 1934 is given. In fact, it is listed in the Berlin address book as follows: Kurfürstendamm 234 (1925), Mommsenstr. 10 (1926), Giesebrechtstr. 14 (1927-1933).
↑ George Seldes : Witness to a Century. Encounters with the noted, the notorious and the SOBs. Ballantine Books, New York NY 1987, ISBN 0-345-33181-8 , p. 56 ( [1] ).

personal data
SURNAME	Szatmari, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Szatmári, Jenő (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	1952
Place of death	Hungary

[1] The dates of life are given according to Eugen Szatmari in the Internet Movie Database . The date and place of death have not yet been verified. So too: German Literature Lexicon. Volume 21 (Streit bis Techim), Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2001, p. 489. From Csaba Nagy: A magyar emigráns irodalom lexikona (lexicon), Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest 2000, p. 917, at least it emerges that Szatmári died in Hungary.

[Magyar_Életrajzi_Lexikon-2] Compare the entry in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (Hungarian Biographical Encyclopedia) ( digitized version): "A börtönben halt meg."

[3] According to the German Literature Lexicon. Volume 21: Dispute - Techim. 2001, p. 489, a stay in Berlin from 1926 to 1934 is given. In fact, it is listed in the Berlin address book as follows: Kurfürstendamm 234 (1925), Mommsenstr. 10 (1926), Giesebrechtstr. 14 (1927-1933).

[4] George Seldes : Witness to a Century. Encounters with the noted, the notorious and the SOBs. Ballantine Books, New York NY 1987, ISBN 0-345-33181-8 , p. 56 ( [1] ).