József Molnár

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József Molnár (October 2009)

József Molnár (born August 27, 1918 in Budapest , † December 1, 2009 in Munich ) was a Hungarian writer , journalist, publisher and printer.

Life

The mother Maria, b. Lagler (1886–1943) worked as a cook in Budapest. The biological father is not known. József grew up in Csepreg with relatives of his mother. When he was 14 years old, he was adopted by Eugen Molnár. So József Lagler became József Molnár. Gifted and eager to learn, he came to the Kossuth Lajos Gymnasium in Budapest through private sponsorship . He was one of the top graduates in his senior year 1938.

On December 1, 1938, he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary and soon became secretary of the youth committee. In 1945 he joined the National Peasant Party (Nemzeti Parasztpárt) , in whose party leadership he was elected. In 1947 he left the party. In November 1948 he left Hungary and from then on lived in exile .

Urn grave 166-A-U1-142

In the summer of 1949, meanwhile arrived in Switzerland, he earned his living in various companies as a simple worker. The emigration took him on through Europe to New York. In 1955 he lived in a boarding house in Munich and worked as a political commentator for Radio Free Europe .

In Munich he met his future second wife. It was a conversation about Thornton Wilder's novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey that brought the two together. In November 1959 they moved into an apartment in the east of Munich and finally married in September 1965. They were together until the day on which József Molnár died after an unfortunate fall on December 1st, 2009.

The urn grave of József Molnár is located in Munich's Ostfriedhof.

Act

1997 - Consul General László Püspök (r.) Presents József Molnár (l.) With the award

József Molnár belonged to the Hungarians group that started Látóhatár - a magazine for literature and politics - in 1950 . From 1958 the magazine appeared under the name Új Látóhatár ("New Horizon"). In József Molnár's print shop in Munich, it was produced in outstanding quality for decades. It was one of the most respected printed products in the Hungarian language from the West during the times of emigration. József Molnár was the spiritus rector of the magazine until the last issue in December 1989 . From 1963 onwards, his Aurora publishing house published numerous books with works by Hungarian authors. József Molnár was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for his life's work .

József Molnár served the letters, as he once put it himself. For many years he studied the historical writings of Nicolas Kis (1650–1702). He founded the Misztótfalusi Kis Miklós Múzeumi Alapítvány Foundation and was the founder of the Museum in Misztótfalu, which was inaugurated on September 8, 1991 with great festivities and presented to the public.

József Molnár was also a founding member of the Academia Musicae Pro Mundo Uno in Rome. He had a long friendship with József Juhar (theologian and music expert of Hungarian origin), who founded the Academy in 1978.

Awards

Fonts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marriage Register, Budapest
  2. ^ Final report from the school year 1937-1938
  3. ^ CV in book publications
  4. ↑ Imprint of the editions and list of the publisher's publications
  5. ↑ Publications, film and photo documentation
  6. ↑ József Molnár's autobiography. (PDF) Retrieved March 10, 2019 ( ISBN 978-3-00-031787-3 ).
personal data
SURNAME Molnár, József
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer, journalist, publisher and printer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2009
Place of death Munich