László Rajk (architect)
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László Rajk (born January 26, 1949 in Budapest ; died September 11, 2019 there ) was a Hungarian architect and politician .
Life
László Rajk's father László Rajk was a Hungarian communist politician who was executed for alleged espionage in 1949 after a Stalinist show trial . His mother was sentenced to prison. Rajk was separated from his mother and grew up in an orphanage under the name István Kovács. From 1953 he was allowed to live with his aunt. Julia Rajk was released from prison in 1954. László Rajk was rehabilitated during the thaw in the Eastern Bloc and reburied on October 6, 1956. After the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, mother and son were deported to Romania and were allowed to return to Hungary in 1958.
Rajk studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest from 1967 and stayed at McGill University in the USA in 1975/76 . From then on he worked as an architect.
Rajk was active in Hungary's democratic opposition from 1975 and, with Gábor Demszky , operated an illegal font distribution company from 1981, which was known as the " Samizdat Boutique". In 1988 he was one of the founders of the opposition party Bund Free Democrats (Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége, SZDSZ). After the political change in Hungary, he was elected member of the Hungarian Parliament for the party in 1990 and was this until 1996, when he gave up his mandate because of a corruption affair in the party. He remained associated with the party until 2001.
Rajk worked as an architect, film architect and set designer and taught film architecture at the Budapest Film School (Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem). In communist Hungary he also designed book covers.
Rajk was appointed Chevalier des Ordre national du Mérite in 1999 , in 2005 he received the Order of Merit of Hungary , in 2006 the Order of Merit of Poland and in 2009 the Kossuth Prize .
Rajk was married to the alto Judit Kerek.
Architecture (selection)
- Lehel Csarnok , 2002
Films (selection)
- The Turin horse , 2011
- Saul fia , 2015
Fonts (selection)
- with Gábor Demszky: Földalatti vonalak . Jelenkor, Pécs 2000
- 2000 Radikális eklektika. Kölcsönzött evidenciák . Jelenkor, Pécs 2000
- Happiness, City, Space ("Boldogság, város, tér"). Birkhausen, Berlin 2002
- Réteges építészet / Stratified architecture . Terc, Budapest 2005
- Duncan Shiels: The Rajk Brothers. A European family drama . Translation from the English by Klaus Binder . Foreword György Konrád , afterword László Rajk jun. Vienna: Zsolnay, 2008, ISBN 978-3-552-05434-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Laszlo Rajk in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Laszlo Rajk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hungarian Architect, Dissident Laszlo Rajk Dies at 70 , NYT September 12, 2019
- László Rajk in the Biographical Lexicon Resistance and Opposition in Communism 1945–91 of the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship
- Rest in Peace, László Rajk Jr. (1949–2019) , obituary, at: hungarianfreepress, September 13, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rajk, László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2019 |
| Place of death | Budapest |