Gitta Mallasz

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Gitta Mallász , married Gitta Walder , (born June 21, 1907 in Ljubljana , Austria-Hungary ; † May 25, 1992 in Ampuis , France ) was a Hungarian graphic artist, painter, author and Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Ottomár and Gitta Mallász around 1914

Margit Eugenie (Gitta) Mallász was born in 1907 into an Austro-Hungarian family. Her father was an officer in the Hungarian military and her mother was Austrian. As a teenager she attended the school for art decoration in Budapest , where she became friends with Hanna Dallos. As a good swimmer, she won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1931 European Swimming Championships in Paris. This is how she meets Lili Strausz, who teaches yoga and gives massage. Around 1934 Gitta Mallász began to paint again and worked together with Hanna Dallos in the workshop that she had with her husband Joseph Kreutzer in Buda on Ilonka Szabo Street. As anti-Semitism grows in Horthy-Hungary, it is she, the aristocrat, who gets the orders that are then carried out by Hanna Dallos and Joseph Kreutzer. Both are Jews, Lili Strausz too.

1939-1944

The Second World War breaks out. The mood becomes heavy and fearful. The couple rents a small house in the outskirts of Budapest. Gitta Mallász and Lili Strausz join them. So a quartet of young, discerning people who are looking for spirituality is born.

One day, Gitta Mallász talks to Hanna Dallos about her thoughts, and she warns her that she is no longer talking. It is June 25th, 1943. At this moment the angels' answer begins : for 17 months they receive a spiritual teaching that is brought on by Hanna Dallos. It ends in a former school that has become a military clothing workshop to save hundreds of Jews. This workshop is run by Gitta Mallász to protect her friends. But in Hungary in 1944, the Nazis closed the vicious circle around them. Joseph Kreutzer is deported on June 3rd, Hanna Dallos and Lili Strausz come to Ravensbrück on December 2nd - no return. Gitta Mallász is alone with her little black notebooks in which the teachings were written down.

1945-1960

Gitta Mallász takes over the destroyed studio of her friend Adrienn Frankovszky at 4. Batthyanyi Street. Later she becomes a costume artist, decorator and interpreter of the Allami Népi Együttes (National Folklore Group ) by Rabai Miklos . Despite her professional success, she describes herself as a wandering cadaver during these years. In 1960 she “chooses freedom” and settles in France.

1960-1992

So that her family is not harassed, she first signs a marriage of convenience with Laci Walder, a communist Jew, with the International Brigades . It will be a love marriage. Together with her husband, Hélène Boyer and many friends, she devotes herself to her task: translating the teachings. The publication is a long time coming. But the writer Claude Mettra , who is a producer at France Culture , dedicates a radio broadcast to Gitta Mallász and her spiritual adventure on March 22, 1976. The effect is huge. Shortly afterwards the text is published by Aubier Verlag . Thanks to a broadcast by France Inter with the well-known interviewer Jacques Chancel on March 10, 1977, it was made known to the general public.

Laci Walder dies in 1982. Gitta Mallász stubbornly refuses to become a guru, although everything invites her to do so. But in June 1983 an invitation to the conference at the Carl Gustav Jung Institute in Zurich triggers : from this conference until the end of her life, Gitta Mallász devotes herself to the explanations of the "answer of the angels" and warns of false interpretations at her conferences, or in the books of these declarations. In 1988 she broke both wrists in a serious accident. So she leaves her little house in Périgord to live in Ampuis, in the Côte Rôtie , surrounded by grapevines, with Bernard and Patricia Montaud, with whom she has a close friendship.

Since 1985 this organizes their conferences. She lives there peacefully in her last years, writes her last books and gives the "Teaching of the Angels" with joy.

She dies on May 25, 1992. Her ashes are scattered in the Rhone . Like her friends, she does not have a grave.

Awards

Posthumously , she was awarded the title “ Righteous Among the Nations ” by Yad Vashem in 2011 because she had saved hundreds of Jewish women and children in 1944 while she was running the workshop for military uniforms in Katalin, Budapest.

Works

  • The angel's answer (recorded and commented by Gitta Mallász, orally transmitted by Hanna Dallos. German version and edited by Lela Hinshaw-Fischli with the help of Gitta Mallász). Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln 1981 ISBN 978-3-85630-752-3
  • Experienced the angels . Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln 1983 ISBN 978-3-85630-614-4
  • World tomorrow . Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln 1986 ISBN 978-3-85630-025-8
  • Jump into the unknown . Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln 1990 ISBN 978-3-85630-717-2

Artwork

Gitta Mallász first worked in Hanna Dallo's studio for decorative and art graphics in Budapest. There she produces posters and advertising or tourism documents and illustrates books and wish cards. After the war, she founded her own studio in which a wide range of her work was realized. In the 1950s she worked as a costume designer for the folk ensemble of the Hungarian state. In France in the 1960s, she illustrated record sleeves and children's books and painted furniture in the Hungarian style.

literature

  • Mallász, Gitta . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 308 .
  • Patrice van Eersel: La source blanche: l'étonnante histoire des "Dialogues avec l'Ange", ou, l'exigence de création . Paris: B. Grasset, 1996.
  • 664. Mallász, Gitta. In: Magyar nemzeti bibliográfia. Könyvek bibliográfiája. Volume 53, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár , 1998.
  • Bernard Montaud: Le testament de l'ange: les derniers jours de Gitta Mallász . Paris: A. Michel, 1993.
  • Bernard Montaud, Patricia Montaud, Lydia Müller: La vie et la mort de Gitta Mallász . Paris: Dervy, 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swimming - European Championships
  2. ↑ a b c Gitta Mallász artworks
  3. ↑ The Angels' Answer . Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln 1981, p. 9 of the 14th edition 2013.
  4. ^ The story of Ernö Erbstein, who survived Hungary's Holocaust to coach Torin. In: The Guardian . Dominic Bliss, January 22, 2015, accessed April 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Zug ins Verderben , Eva Langley-Danos, Daimon Verlag 2001.
  6. ↑ The woman with whom the angels spoke. The journey to hell from the Ravensbrück concentration camp: six names on a memorial plaque and their history. (PDF) In: Nordbayerischer Kurier . Michael Weiser, January 27, 2015, accessed April 14, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Gitta Mallasz books
  8. ↑ Gitta Mallász interview
  9. ↑ yadvashem.org
  10. ↑ Szép vagy, gyönyörű vagy Magyarország. Dallos Hanna és Mallász Gitta. In: artmagazin (7), pp. 38–44. Katona Anikó, 2013, accessed April 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Mallasz, Gitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallász, Gitta; Walder, Gitta (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1992
Place of death Ampuis , France