György Dalos

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György Dalos [ ɟørɟ ˈdɒloʃ ] (born September 23, 1943 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer and historian .

György Dalos (right) receives the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2010
György Dalos at the Leipzig Book Fair 2011

Live and act

Dalos spent his childhood with his grandmother, as his father died in 1945 as a result of the consequences of the labor camp to which he had been taken because of the family's Jewish origins. From 1962 to 1967 Dalos studied history at the Lomonossow University in Moscow and then worked as a museologist in Budapest. In 1964 his first volume of poetry was published. In 1968 Dalos was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for " Maoist activities" and was suspended. After a professional and partial publication ban was imposed, Dalos worked as a translator. In 1977 he was one of the founders of the democratic opposition movement in Hungary. In 1984 he was a guest of the Berlin artist program of the DAAD and became a member of the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen . In 1988/89 he was part of the editorial team of the East German underground magazine Ostkreuz . From 1995 to 1999 he was head of the “ House of Hungary ” in Berlin and in 1999 coordinator of the “Hungary” focus at the Frankfurt Book Fair . In his book Hungary in the Nutshell (2004), Dalos prophetically warned his homeland against answering social questions in an authoritarian manner. Since 1987 he lived as a freelance journalist in Vienna and worked for German radio stations and daily newspapers. Dalos was co-editor of the German weekly newspaper Freitag until the end of 2011 .

Dalos is a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts and since 2014 Secretary of the Literature and Language Maintenance class at the Saxon Academy of the Arts .

He lives as a freelance author in Berlin.

His books have been translated in England, France, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Turkey, Portugal, Russia, Australia, Israel, the USA and the Netherlands.

Works (selection)

  • My location able. Novel. Berlin 1979.
  • Nineteen eighty-five. A historical report (Hong Kong 2036). German adaptation by Reinhard Weißhuhn , Rotbuch, Berlin 1982.
  • My grandfather and world history. A document montage. Berlin 1984.
  • Archipelago goulash. The emergence of the democratic opposition in Hungary. Essay. Bremen 1986.
  • The circumcision. A story , Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Workers of all countries, excuse me! End of the Eastern Bloc joke. Bremen 1993.
  • The hide-and-seek. Novel. Frankfurt / M. 1994.
  • My grandmother's skirt. Early prose. Frankfurt / M. 1996.
  • Guest from the future. Anna Achmatowa and Sir Isaiah Berlin . A Lovestory. Frankfurt / M. 1996.
  • Olga - Pasternak's last love. Almost a novel. Hamburg 1999.
  • The seeker of God. A story. Frankfurt / M. 1999
  • The trip to Sakhalin. In the footsteps of Anton Chekhov . Hamburg 2001.
  • Rope teams. Novel. Cologne 2003.
  • Hungary in a nutshell. History of my country. Munich 2004.
  • 1956. The uprising in Hungary. Munich 2006.
  • The Balaton Brigade. Narrative. Hamburg 2006.
  • Art Nouveau. Novel. Berlin 2007.
  • The curtain goes up. The end of dictatorships in Eastern Europe. Publishing house CH Beck, Munich 2009.
  • Gorbachev. Man and power. Publishing house CH Beck , Munich 2011.
  • Farewell comrades! Publishing house CH Beck , Munich 2011.
  • The case of the economist. Novel. Berlin 2012.
  • History of the Russian Germans . From Catherine the Great to the present. Trans. V. Elsbeth Zylla. CH Beck, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-406-67017-6 .
  • The Last Tsar - The Fall of the House of Romanov. Verlag CH Beck , Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-406-71367-5 .
  • For, against and without communism. Memories. Verlag CHBeck , Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-406-74103-6 .

items

  • At the end of the dictatorships in Eastern Europe: A look at Hungary and the GDR . In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (Ed.): Challenge Democracy. Democratic, parliamentary, good? (= Interdisciplinary cultural studies / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 6). Baden-Baden 2011.

Nineteen eighty-five

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Five is a sequel to George Orwell's 1982 novel 1984.

content

At the beginning of 1985 the big brother dies, at the same time the oceanic air force is completely destroyed by the Eurasian military. This causes some fateful twists and turns in the history of Oceania.

Big brother's death at the turn of the year leads to a power struggle in London and Oceania, which has been weakened by territorial losses. On one side there is the big sister, the widow of the dictator, on the other side the main characters from the 1984 novel: Winston Smith, Julia Miller and James O'Brien as well as other well-known characters from the original novel such as Parsons, Syme and Ampleforth. After the big sister's suicide, the latter seem to triumph until a new proletarian revolution breaks out under the leadership of a Pakistani revolutionary named Mohammed. At the same time, after the defeat of the air force in the Canary Islands, Oceania enters into peace and surrender negotiations with Eurasia, Eurasia suppresses the uprising (comparable to the suppression of the Prague Spring or the Hungarian uprising) and installs a puppet government in Oceania.

shape

In terms of form, it is a collection of documents such as personal notes from Smith, Miller and O'Brien supplemented by official oceanic pronouncements from 1985. An unnamed Eurasian historian collects these 50 years later and adds footnotes to them, which also makes one whose fate and his escape to Hong Kong can guess.

NINE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHTY is also a dystpic document, but unlike the original novel, it is satirical.

New elements compared to '1984'

As with George Orwell, historical events are incorporated: For example, there is talk of a spring-like thaw (see Prague Spring ), the wife of the big brother, like other dictatorial wives (e.g. Jiang Qing ), becomes a projection surface for all the atrocities of the regime and the uprising from October 1985 and its end has parallels to the Hungarian uprising of 1956 .

Dalos continues to expand the world of the original novel, with Julia and O'Brien being given full names. Winston Smith's wife is not only mentioned, but also made real, and the driving force behind the 1985 revolution was the newly-introduced proletarian Mohammed, an Oceanic citizen of Pakistani descent. The brief appearance of a party member named "Comrade Ogilvy" is also striking.

Just as the real existing socialism acted with the class enemy for the benefit of its elites, the three superstates left the pre-revolutionary economic system in Hong Kong and Brazzaville untouched, so that luxury goods for the party elites could be obtained from there.

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literature

Web links

Commons : György Dalos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Dorschel : A thousand years of dignitaries . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 22, 2004, literature supplement, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Award ceremony for the Day of German Unity on bundespraesident.de, accessed on October 2, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Dalos, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest