László Márton

This article is about the writer László Márton. For other people, see László Marton .

László Márton 2005

László Márton (born April 23, 1959 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer and literary translator from German. Márton also writes in German.

Life

Márton studied German, Hungarian literature and sociology at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. From 1983 to 1990 he worked as a publishing editor at "Helikon Verlag". In 1983 he began to publish his own work, both short stories and novels as well as plays.

As a translator he has works by Martin Luther ; Andreas Gryphius ; Volker Braun ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Faust I ); Günter Grass ( The meeting in Telgte ); Jakob Grimm ; August Jacob Liebeskind ; Novalis ( Heinrich von Ofterdingen ) translated into Hungarian.

The translation of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas was also the inspiration for him for the novel about Jacob Wunschwitz's struggle against the arbitrariness of the authorities in the small town of Guben in Lower Lusatia at the beginning of the 17th century .

Prizes and awards

• László Márton received the Tibor Déry Prize in 1991, the Attila József Prize in 1997 and the Sándor Márai Prize in 2007.
• In summer 2010 he held the "Siegfried Unseld Professorship" at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
• 2017: Friedrich Gundolf Prize for communicating German culture abroad.

Works (in German)

• The true story of Jacob Wunschwitz. Translated from the Hungarian by Hans-Henning Paetzke. Zsolnay, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-552-04933-9 .
• The shady main street. Translated from the Hungarian by Agnes Relle. Zsolnay, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-552-05221-6 .
• In the Austrian Orient. A story from the Innviertel. Edition Thanhäuser , Ottensheim an der Donau 2005, ISBN 3-900986-62-2 (written in German).
• The hiding place of Minerva Translated from the Hungarian by Eva Zádor and Wilhelm Droste. Folio, Vienna, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85256-445-6 .
• with Yoko Tawada : special characters Europe. Drawings and woodcuts by Christian Thanhäuser , Edition Thanhäuser, Ottensheim an der Donau 2009, ISBN 978-3-900986-68-1 .
• The overcome. Written in German. Woodcuts by Christian Thanhäuser, Edition Thanhäuser, Ottensheim an der Donau 2018, ISBN 978-3-900986-92-6

Web links

• Literature by and about László Márton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on the website of the Berlin International Literature Festival 2003
• László Márton on culturebase.net (English)