Ladislas Dormandi
Ladislas Dormandi , also László Dormándi, (born László Engel July 14, 1898 in Dormánd , Austria-Hungary ; died November 26, 1967 in Paris ) was a Hungarian publisher and a Hungarian- French writer .
Life
László Engel was a son of the small landowner and Honvédleutnants Lajos Engel and Irén Beck. László Engel's family Magyarized the family name in Dormándi. He married in 1924 the opportunity painter Olga Székely-Kovács (1900-1971), born in 1925 their daughter Judith Dupont as Dormándis-law Vilma Kovács and Dormándis sister Alice Bálint and her husband Michael Balint psychoanalyst . Like his wife, Dormándi had Jewish ancestors; they converted to Christianity in the 1920s. The family moved into the apartment building on Mészáros utca in Budapest , which his father-in-law, the architect Frédéric Kovács, had built. Dormándi became director of the Budapest Pantheon publishing house, where he published the six-volume Új lexikon in 1936 and the Kis enciklopédia in 1938 . He also translated and printed works by German-speaking contemporaries Lion Feuchtwanger , Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig . He also wrote novels and essays.
The anti-Semitism of the Horthy regime prompted the family to emigrate to France in 1938. During the Second World War, he worked underground for the publishing house Éditions de Minuit under the conditions of the German occupation of France and survived the German persecution of Jews. In 1948 he received French citizenship.
In France he wrote several novels in French under the name Ladislas Dormandi. In 1953 he received the Prix Cazes for the novel Pas si fou .
Fonts (selection)
- Hungarian
- Vihar (1920)
- A tűzsárkány (1921)
- Sólyommadár (1927)
- A jó ember (1930)
- with Sándor Márai : 1910–1930. Twenty years of world history in 700 pictures . Introduction by Friedrich Sieburg . Berlin: Transmare, 1931
- Két jelentéktelen ember (1937)
- A bajthozó tündér (1941)
- Trópusi láz (1941)
- Zárás után (1942)
- A félelem (1946)
- A mű (1948)
- A hórihorgas és a köpcös (1965)
- A múlt zarándoka (1968)
- Bábszínház (1968)
- French
- La vie des autres (1944)
- La péniche sans nom (1951)
- Pas si fou (1952)
- La Traque (1955)
- Le fantôme de la rue Babel (1956)
- Tu mourras seul (1957)
- L'ombre du capitaine (1958)
- Plus heureux que l'enfance (1960)
- Le naufragé de la terre ferme (1961)
- Le compagnon de voyage (1962)
- Translations into Hungarian
- Lion Feuchtwanger : A csúnya hercegnő ( The Ugly Duchess )
- Lion Feuchtwanger: A hamis Néró ( The false Nero )
- Lion Feuchtwanger: A római zsidó ( The Sons )
- Thomas Mann : Rendetlenség és kora bánat ( disorder and early suffering )
- Felix Salten : Bambi ( Bambi )
- Felix Salten: Perri ( The youth of the squirrel Perri )
- B. Traven : A halálhajó: Egy amerikai tengerész története ( The Death Ship )
- B. Traven: A fehér rózsa ( The white rose )
- Stefan Zweig : Elsö élmény ( first experience )
literature
- Agnes Kenyeres: Dormándi, László , in: Magyar zsidó lexikon . Budapest, 1929, p. 206
- Ladislas Dormandi: Pourquoi j'écris en français , in: Cahiers Ladislas Dormandi. Association des Amis de Ladislas Dormandi, Paris, 1972
Web links
- Literature by and about Dormandi, László in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Dormándi, László in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Information on Ladislas Dormandi in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Dormándi, László , at mek
annotation
- ↑ There are entries for the Hungarian encyclopedias in the Hungarian Wikipedia under hu: Új lexikon and hu: Kis enciklopédia . There further references, but no evidence about Dormandi.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dormandi, Ladislas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dormándi, László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-French writer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dormánd |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1967 |
| Place of death | Paris |