Géza Röhrig

Géza Röhrig (2015)

Géza Röhrig (born May 11, 1967 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer and film actor.

Life

Géza Röhrig's father died when he was four years old. He grew up in a children's home and was adopted into a befriended Jewish family at the age of 12. He played in a punk band that was persecuted by the communist regime in the 1980s. He began studying literature and Polish studies at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. He studied with István Szabó at the Budapest Theater and Film School and obtained a directing diploma. Röhrig turned to the Jewish religion and from 2000 did a teacher training at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City .

Röhrig published several volumes of poetry and a volume of prose. He played in a few smaller Hungarian film productions and received the lead role in the feature film Saul fia in 2015 . The film was u. a. Awarded at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival in 2015 and at the Academy Awards in 2016.

Röhrig received the Hungarian Kossuth Prize in 2016 for his performance in Saul fia .

Röhrig has a son, he married a second time and had twins.

Works (selection)

Hamvasztókönyv . Budapest: Múlt és Jövő, 1995
- Ash book . Lithographs by Christian Stötzner. Translation by Zsuzsa Erős, Andreas Koziol . Edition Fiebig, Berlin. 1999
Fogság . Budapest: Széphalom, 1997
Éj . Budapest: Széphalom, 1999
A Rebbe tollatépett papagája - képzelt haszid történetek . Prose. Budapest: Múlt és Jövő, 1999
Törvény . Budapest: Múlt és Jövő, 2006
Honvágy . Budapest: Múlt és Jövő, 2010

Filmography (selection)

2015: Son of Saul (Saul fia)
2018: To Dust
2018: The Chaperone
2019: Muse
2019: Bad Art
2020: Resistance

Web links

Literature by and about Géza Röhrig in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Géza Röhrig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Géza Röhrig , at port.hu (hu)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Catherine Shoard: Son of Saul star: "God was holding the hand of every Jew in the gas chamber" , in: The Guardian , May 19, 2015 (en)
↑ Claus Löser : The own horror . Film review, in: taz , March 5, 2016, p. 19
↑ Katalin Szemere: Élesztő és irodalom , in: Népszabadság , February 13, 2013
↑ Törvény , publishing ads in Múlt és Jövő
↑ Makers of 'Son of Saul' receive Kossuth Prize , accessed March 25, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Röhrig, Géza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian writer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest

[Guardian2015-1] Catherine Shoard: Son of Saul star: "God was holding the hand of every Jew in the gas chamber" , in: The Guardian , May 19, 2015 (en)

[2] Claus Löser : The own horror . Film review, in: taz , March 5, 2016, p. 19

[3] Katalin Szemere: Élesztő és irodalom , in: Népszabadság , February 13, 2013

[4] Törvény , publishing ads in Múlt és Jövő

[5] Makers of 'Son of Saul' receive Kossuth Prize , accessed March 25, 2016