László Németh

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László Németh (born April 18, 1901 in Nagybánya , Austria-Hungary , † March 3, 1975 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer.

László Németh (1919)
László Németh
memorial plaque in Budapest

Life

His father, József Németh (1873-1946), was a high school teacher in Nagybánya in Transylvania . His mother, Vilma Gaál (1879–1957), comes from a civil servant family.

At Christmas 1925 he married Ella Démusz (1905–1989), the daughter of the innkeeper János Démusz. Between 1926 and 1944 they had six daughters, two of whom lived only briefly.

He died on March 3, 1975 from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Education

In 1904 his family moved to Szolnok and in 1905 to Budapest . He completed elementary school (1907–11) and high school (1911–17) here. In 1919 he studied Hungarian and French literature, and in 1920 he started medicine. In 1925 he graduated from the university as a dentist. He later opened his own dentist's office. He also worked as a school doctor.

Németh spoke 11 languages ​​and was an excellent translator.

Writing activity

In December 1925 he won first prize in the Nyugat magazine's short story competition with his peasant story Frau Horváth dies . Since 1926 articles and book reviews have appeared in various magazines such as Nyugat , Protestáns Szemle ("Protestant Review") and Társadalomtudomány ("Social Science "). In 1929 his first novel, Human Comedy , was published in Napkelet ("East") magazine .

From 1932 he published his own magazine called Tanú ("Witness"), in which he wrote alone. 17 issues had appeared by 1937. Between 1934 and 1935 he headed the literary department of the Hungarian Radio. In 1934 his first book was published with the title Mensch und Rolle .

Grave on the Farkasréti temető

In 1938 the National Theater staged its first play at the Blitzlicht , and a year later its great historical drama Gregor the Seventh .

In 1943 he retired as a doctor. During this time he lived as a freelance writer, mainly as an essayist and critic.

During the German occupation of Hungary from 1944 to 1945 he did not write a line. After the war he moved to Békés with his family .

1945-48 he taught Hungarian literary history and mathematics at the grammar school of Hódmezővásárhely . In 1946 he was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to work out the curriculum for the new "School of the Working People".

In 1951 he was awarded the József Attila Prize for the translation by Anna Karenina . In 1957 he received the Kossuth Prize ; He donated the prize money to the library of the high school in Hódmezővásárhely. In the last phase of his writing activity he settled in Tihany . In 1965 he received the Herder Prize . In 1969 his life's work was relocated.

His oeuvre includes nine novels, more than 20 dramas and around 15 volumes of essays. The “László Németh Society” has set up a small memorial in Hódmezővásárhely.

Novels published in German

  • Disgust : Novel ( Iszony , 1947)
  • How the stone falls ( Iszony , 1947)
  • Esther Egetö ( Égető Eszter , 1948)
  • Mercy ( Irgalom , 1970)
  • Mask of grief
  • Sin ( Bűn )
  • Mourning ( Gyász , 1935)

Dramas (selection)

  • Ms. Bodnár ( Bodnárné , 1931)
  • Joseph the Second ( II. József )
  • Gregory the Seventh ( VII. Gergely )
  • At the flash ( Villámfénynél )
  • Dying Hungarians ( Pusztuló magyarok , 1936–1946)
  • The henpecked hero ( Papucshős , 1938)
  • Day of Elisabeth ( Erzsébet-nap , 1940–1946)
  • Széchenyi (1946)
  • Penance (Eklézsia-megkövetés, 1946)
  • Jan Hus ( Husz János , 1948)
  • Galileo (1953)
  • The traitor ( Az áruló 1954)
  • Petőfi in Mezőberény ( Petőfi Mezőberényben , 1954)
  • Apáczai (1955)
  • The Two Bolyais ( A két Bolyai , 1961)
  • Trap ( csapda )
  • The death of Gandhi ( Gandhi halála )
  • Four prophets ( Négy próféta )
  • Journey ( Utazás , 1961)
  • Big family ( Nagy család )
  • Fight against prosperity ( Harc a jólét ellen , 1964)

Film adaptations

  • 1965: Iszony (Director: György Hintsch)
  • 1972: Gyász (Pál Zolnay)
  • 1973: Irgalom (5 episodes)
  • 1977: Galileo (Ottó Ádám)
  • 1978: A két Bólyai (Ottó Ádám)
  • 1985: II. József (Ottó Ádám)
  • 1986: Villámfénynél (Ottó Ádám)
  • 1989: Égető Eszter (György Hintsch)
  • 2006: A két Bolyai (Csaba Bereczky)

literature

Web links

Commons : László Németh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Németh László Városi Könyvtár ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nlvk.hu
personal data
SURNAME Németh, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagybánya
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1975
Place of death Budapest