Ignác Lamár

Nice Náci

Ignác Lamár , better known as Schöne Náci or, more rarely, Schöner Náci (born August 11, 1897 , Petržalka (German Engerau , now Bratislava ) in Slovakia; † October 23, 1967 Lehnice in Okres Dunajská Streda ) was a well-known original in Bratislava.

Life

After his mother left him at a young age and his father, a shoemaker, soon died, he was left to fend for himself. His younger, paralyzed brother was accepted into a charitable institution. He got a job as a prop master in a theater.

Until the end of the war he was approached with Ignácko , from whom the short form Náci originated. In Slovakia he is known under the grammatically incorrect name form Schöne Náci (without -r). He became known in the city because he was always elegantly dressed in a top hat , tailcoat and patent leather shoes and was to be found in the old town of Bratislava and addressed the female passers-by with the words "kiss your hand, madam" . He often gave flowers to the ladies. He could often be found in the Stürzer pastry shop in today's Sedlárska ulica (Sattlergasse) or in Café Mayer on today's Hlavné námestie (main square) .

After the Second World War , due to the Beneš decrees, he was taken to a collection camp, where German-speaking expellees were housed. But he was released and was allowed to stay in Bratislava.

He spent the last 21 years in the old people's home in Bratislava. In 1967 he died of tuberculosis in Lehnice hospital. Since there were no relatives for a funeral or tending the grave, the community took over the costs.

After he had big, sometimes existential problems in his youth, like his grandfather, his life philosophy was to live as a famous clown and wanted to avoid his problems.

Appreciation

Life-size figure of the beautiful Náci

30 years after his death, in 1997, a life-size statue, which could also move with a mechanism, was recreated from old photos by designer Karol Krcmar. His monument stands at the Fischertor in front of the Café Mayer.

In 2007, his remains were transferred by the Ferdinand Martinengo Society from Lehnice to the Andreas Cemetery ( Ondrejský cintorín in Slovak ) in Bratislava. His typical words in Slovak, German and Hungarian are also written on his tombstone.

Posthumous evaluation

Ignác Lamár was a harmless, but pathologically schizophrenic personality who lived in an illusory world that had nothing in common with the reality of everyday life.

In the 1930s, the well-known Pressburg journalist Karl Benyovszky from the daily newspaper "Der Grenzbote" made an interview with Lamár in the Hotel Carlton on the occasion of Lamár's 40th birthday. In this interview, Lamár claimed that he was the son of a wealthy family, but that his siblings had robbed him of his inheritance. When the journalist asked why he was not married and had started a family, Lamár replied that he had been engaged to a rich American woman for years, but that she did not want to come to Europe and that he himself did not want to leave his hometown, which was the case led those present to general amusement.

Lamár's personality is glorified and subsequently glorified by many of today's residents of Bratislava, although most of them did not personally know the true personality of this "original", as it is currently called. The contemporaries who could remember Lamár personally see it much more critically. For most of his contemporaries he was a figure of mockery, when he appeared in the streets of the city the children ran ahead of him and shouted "The Naci is coming, the Naci is coming ...!" In his misfortune, Lamár was unable to distinguish between ridicule and reality ...

In the last few years there have been numerous articles and reports of various quality about Ignác Lamár in Slovakia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The beautiful Naci loved his city ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Twin City Journal of September 4, 2009, accessed on December 27, 2011 
2. ↑ The "Grenzbote" was a German-language daily newspaper, it was the successor to the " Westungarian Grenzbote " which was banned in 1919 because of its adjective "West Hungarian" and had to cease its publication.

Web links

• The handsome Naci loved his city

• The handsome Náci - a typical figure of old Bratislava

• Bratislavské noviny, August 6, 2007 (Slovak)
• Schöne Náci (Slovak)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 35.2 ″  N , 17 ° 6 ′ 31.1 ″  E