Károly Aszlányi

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Károly Aszlányi (born April 22, 1908 on Ada Kaleh near Orsova , today Romania , † December 8, 1938 in Dorog , Hungary ) was a Hungarian writer, playwright and journalist.

Károly Aszlány in 1929
Gravestone of Károly Aszlány in the Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest

life and work

Károly Aszlány was born in Orşova as the son of the Hungarian philosopher and writer Dezső Aszlányi. After attending school and studying in Nagybecskerek , he lived in Vienna , Budapest and Germany , and attended a music college in Denmark . For a while he worked as a journalist for the Hungarian newspaper Sporthírlap. In 1927 Aszlány won a prize from the renowned Hungarian literary magazine Nyugat with the short story “The Snowman” . This experience moved him to become a writer. His debut novel was published in Budapest in 1929 under the title "Geld in Sicht".

In the 1930s, Aszlány became known and successful with numerous burlesque entertainment novels in the Hungarian language. At times he wrote under the pseudonym Kirk Van Hossum . His work, which has also been translated into other European languages, is strongly influenced by British humor and American comedies of the time and has been filmed several times. In Germany he became known to a large audience in 1937 through the film comedy Sieben Ohrfeigen , the film adaptation of his novel of the same name.

Aszlányi died near Dorog in 1938 when he tried to avoid a child in his car and had an accident. His grave is in the Farkasréti cemetery in Budapest (grave site 15-1-146).

Novels (selection)

  • Pénz a láthatáron (money in sight), 1929.
  • Az álmos riporter (The Sleepy Reporter), 1933 (under the pseudonym Kirk Van Hossum).
  • Hét pofon (Seven Slaps), 1934.
  • Kalandos vakáció (Adventurous Holidays), 1934.
  • Sok hűhó Emmiért (Much Ado about Emmi), 1935,
  • Előszó egy házassághoz (Preface to a marriage), 1936.

Plays

  • Szélhámos Kerestetik (Fraudsters Wanted), 1930.
  • Amerikai komédia (An American Comedy), 1938.

Filmography (selection)

  • Seven slaps in the face (Hét pofon), Germany 1937.
  • A hölgy egy kissé bogaras (she is a bit eccentric), Hungary 1938.
  • Sok hűhó Emmiért (Much Ado about Emmi), Hungary 1940.
  • A tökéletes család (The Perfect Family), Hungary 1942.
  • Se io fossi onesto (If I were really honest), Italy 1942.
  • Face Slaps , Federal Republic of Germany 1970.
  • The seven slaps in the face, Federal Republic of Germany 1971, ZDF.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gábor Köves: A pehelysúly bajnoka: Aszlányi Károly (1908-1938) in: Magyar Narancs , August 10, 2009, Hungarian, accessed June 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Aszlányi, Károly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hossum, Kirk Van (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Ada Kaleh
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1938
Place of death Dorog