György Moldova

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György Moldova (2016)

György Moldova (born György Reif March 12, 1934 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer.

Life

György Reif was imprisoned together with his parents by the Arrow Cross regime in the Budapest ghetto at the end of 1944 . Reif began to study acting at the Budapest Theater Academy, but had to break off the studies in 1957 in the course of the political cleansing after the suppression of the Hungarian uprising .

Moldova got by with odd jobs and began writing for film and theater in 1958. He became a very successful writer on the regulated book market in communist Hungary. He writes about everyday situations from the world of work, from various peripheral regions of Hungary and also writes satires.

Moldova received the Attila József Prize in 1973 and 1978 and the Kossuth Prize in 1983 .

Since the political change in 1989, Moldova has also been writing for the satirical magazine Hócipő and he had a weekly column in the newspaper Magyar Hírlap .

In 1988 Moldova wrote a report with Bűn az élet about how the Hungarian police dealt with the cigánybűnözés . The term he picked up has since fallen into the grid of politically incorrect expressions , and the perceptions it describes are still the subject of political controversy 30 years later, not only in Hungary.

Even decades later, Moldova describes itself as a supporter of the politics of the communist Janos Kadar ; in 2006, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the suppression of the Hungarian uprising, he published a benevolent two-volume biography of Kadar, which Péter Esterházy did not want to see condemned in full .

Works (selection)

  • Sötét angyal . 1967
    • The dark angel . Translation of Irene Kolbe. Budapest: Corvina, 1967
  • Magányos pavilon . Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó
    • The lonely pavilion . Translation Eva Vajda. Munich: Desch, 1970
  • Under the gas lanterns. Narratives . Translation by Hans Skirecki . Berlin: People and World 1971
  • Negyven prédikátor .
    • Forty preachers . Translation by Hans Skirecki . Berlin: Union-Verlag, VOB, 1977
  • Hitler magyarországon . Budapest: Maecenas Könyvk., 1992
  • Kádár János (2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magazinrundschau , by Perlentaucher , December 16, 2013, article in Magyar Narancs , November 28, 2013
  2. ↑ Bűn az élet… Riport a rendőrökről , text from Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia (hu)
  3. ↑ On the term see also hu: Cigánybűnözés
  4. ↑ Magazinrundschau , by Perlentaucher , August 29, 2006, article in Élet és Irodalom , August 25, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Moldova, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest