Lőrinc Szabó
Lőrinc Szabó (born March 31, 1900 in Miskolc , Austria-Hungary , † October 3, 1957 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian poet and translator. He is one of the most important poets of modern Hungarian literature.
Life
Lőrinc Szabó was born in Miskolc as the son of Ilona Panyiczky and the engine driver Lőrinc Szabó.
When he was three years old, the family moved to Balassagyarmat . He went to school there and in Debrecen . Szabó studied philology at the University of Budapest . There he made friends with the poet Mihály Babits , who promoted him. He dropped out of college and started working for Az Est magazine in 1921, shortly after he married Klára Mikes, the daughter of Lajos Mikes.
Between 1927 and 1928 he was the founder and editor of the short-lived magazine "Pandora" and worked for the newspaper "Pesti Napló" (Pester Tageblatt).
Szabó was a lively visitor to the German-Hungarian Society and was often invited to readings by its director Julius Farkas .
In 1942, when the Hungarian Ministry of Culture gave him the assignment to travel to the Weimar poets 'meeting, Szabó met the German writer and cultural functionary of National Socialist Germany Carl Rothe , the General Secretary of the European Writers' Association (ESV) founded in 1941. The European Writers' Association was supposed to replace the PEN Club in the German-dominated part of Europe . Szabó became a member of the organization and finally succeeded József Nyírő as the Hungarian spokesman for the ESV. Szabó also published articles in the ESV magazine, “Europäische Literatur”, z. B. the essay Maifestisches Landschaftsidyll in December 1942.
Due to his cultural cooperation with the Germans, Szabó was accused of a fascist attitude by the new communist rulers in 1945 and charges were brought against him, whereupon he was not allowed to publish his own works, only translations. It was not until shortly before his death that his literary importance was recognized again, and he was awarded the Kossuth Prize .
Lőrinc Szabó died on October 3, 1957 in Budapest.
plant
Szabó's first poetic publications appeared in the magazine " Nyugat " in the 1920s . He published his first anthology in 1922 under the name Föld, erdő, Isten (Earth, Forest, God) and had considerable success with it.
In the 1920s and 1930s he was one of the innovators of Hungarian poetry, and in the 1920s was considered a leading Hungarian poet, a master of poetic forms and careful observation. His topics covered a wide range and ranged from the description of nature to the analysis of consciousness and modern everyday life. In 1932, 1937 and 1943 he received the Baumgarten Prize.
Szabó wrote a number of his poems for his children Lóci and Klári. When his long-time lover Erzsébet Korzáti committed suicide in 1950, he wrote the sonnet cycle The Twenty- Sixth Year in her memory .
Szabó also translated a large number of poets in a congenial way - including Villon , Shakespeare , Goethe , Kleist , Mörike , Baudelaire , Nietzsche , George , Rilke , Benn , Weinheber and others.
Lőrinc Szabó has been a posthumous member of the "Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia" (Digital Literature Academy) since it was founded in 1998.
Works (selection)
- Föld, Erdő, Isten (Earth, Forest, God), 1922
- Kaliban, 1923
- Fény, fény, fény, (light, light, light), 1926
- A Sátán műremekei (Satan's Masterworks), 1926
- Te meg a világ (You and the World), 1932
- Különbéke (Special Peace), 1936
- Harc az ünnepért (Fight for the Festival), 1938
- Régen és most (then and now), 1943
- Tücsökzene (cricket music), 1947
- A huszonhatodik év (The twenty-sixth year), 1957
Writings in German
- Hungarian poetry, translated by Ladislaus Szemere, 1935
- New Hungarian Poetry, translated by Friedrich Lám (1881–1955), Ruszkabányai Verlag, 1942
- May Day Landscape Idyll, European Literature, 8th edition, December 1942
- The twenty-sixth year, translated by Günther Deicke , Corvina Kiadó Budapest 1982
Web links
- Literature by and about Lőrinc Szabó in the catalog of the German National Library
- Music video with a setting of Lőrinc Szabó's poem Ima a gyermekeimért (Prayer for the Children) by the Hungarian band Republic on YouTube
- Music video with a setting of Lőrinc Szabó's poem Szél hozott, szél visz el (The wind brought me, the wind carries me away) by the Hungarian singer Zsuzsa Koncz on YouTube
- Lőrinc Szabó , entry in the HUNLIT database - contains a review of Szabó's poetry
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szabó, Lőrinc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gáborjáni Szabó Lőrinc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miskolc |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1957 |
| Place of death | near Budapest |