Mária Szepes

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Mária Szepes (1992)

Mária Szepes [ ˈmaːriɒ ˈsɛpɛʃ ] (born December 14, 1908 in Budapest ; † September 3, 2007 there ) was a Hungarian author. She worked as a journalist and screenwriter and since 1941 as a freelance writer , especially in the field of hermetic philosophy ; partly also under the pseudonyms Mária Papír and Mária Orsi .

Life

Szepes was born as Magdolna Scherbach in 1908 into a Hungarian theater family. The father, Sándor Papir, was a big star as an actor and bon vivant on the Budapest stages, the mother Mária Kronémer was a singer and actress. Her parents and brother were for her "siblings in spirit", just as she recognized only spiritual kinship: "Everything else is only experience, attachment, solution - karma ." Her father died in 1911 when the three-year-old was already making her first appearances the theater he founded. Her childhood and youth were then under the influence of director Béla Balogh , whom her mother married in 1915.

She graduated from commercial high school and studied literary history , art history and biology ; later comparative religious studies and psychology were added. Between 1916 and 1933 she appeared (mostly as Magda Papír ) as a film actress. In 1931, one year after her marriage, she followed her husband Béla Szepes to Berlin . In her book Magic of Love , Mária Szepes reported on the 56-year marriage - and on what is known as an "alchemical wedding", the dissolution of the ego in the other.

She began to write in Berlin and worked for the BZ at lunchtime . In 1933 the Szepes left Germany and returned to Budapest. There she initially worked as a journalist and film author (now under the name Mariá Orsi). Since 1941 she worked as a freelance writer, mainly in the field of hermetic philosophy. Her first novel, The Red Lion , was written in hiding during the Second World War and became a world best-seller in esoteric literature.

As her main work, she herself described her Raguel novel, which was initially printed as a series in eight individual volumes in Hungary and appeared in two volumes in Germany. Her greatest success was the children's book series about the little girl Pünktchen-Panni, with which she began in 1953.

The red lion

The first novel by Mária Szepes was published under the title A Vörös Oroszlán in Hungary in 1946, initially under a pseudonym. Under the Communist Rákosi - regime was The Red Lion classified as non-conformist and prohibited; orders were given to destroy all copies of the book. Thanks to the librarian and novelist Béla Hamvas , four copies were saved. The pseudonym used successfully disguised the authorship, the authorities could not find anyone named "Mária Orsi". Several followers of the author now typed the novel on the typewriter, created matrices and let the reproductions made with them circulate underground. Almost 40 years later, the novel reached the Heyne publishing house through the Utoprop agency . The book was translated by Gottfried Feidel and was published in paperback in 1984. Hans Joachim Alpers reports more on the history of its origins in the preface to the new edition from 2002.

In it, Szepes tells the story of the unfortunate Hans Burgner, a miller's son who was born in the 16th century. After the death of his feeble father and an equally miserable but beloved teacher, he fears the inevitable death of all living things. Driven by the ubiquitous rumors of an elixir of eternal life, he joins a mysterious alchemist . Despite his repeated warnings, Burgner, in his feverish greed, does not shy away from murder - and thus, inwardly unprepared, comes into possession of the elixir. A journey through the centuries begins, because from now on Burgner can die outwardly, but is always reborn into changing circumstances with full memory. He tries again and again to perform the magnum opus , which frees him from his curse. Against the background of European history of the past five centuries, Hans Burgner experienced a dramatic personal development : initially an unconscious, even vile character, he grew with the tasks assigned to him. He attains the highest human perfection and finally becomes a magus , an initiate .

bibliography

Novels

  • A Vörös Oroszlán (1946, as Mária Orsi, reissued 1984 as Mária Szepes)
    • German: Der Rote Löwe . Translated by Gottfried Feidel. Heyne, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-453-30985-5 . Revised new edition: The red lion: novel of esotericism in the west. Fischer Media, Bern 2000, ISBN 3-85681-430-2 . Also as: The red lion. Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-28543-0 .
  • Surayana élő szobrai (1971)
  • Tükörajtó a tengerben (1975)
    • English: Mirror door in the sea . Science fiction novel. Heyne, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-30758-5 .
  • Napszél (1983)
  • A változatlanság hullámhossza (1986)
  • A Tibeti Orgona (1987)
  • Varázstükör (1988)
  • Gondwána boszorkánya (1993)
  • Katarzis (1999)
  • Felhőszobrász (2002)
Raguel hét tanítványa / Raguel (series of novels)
  • Ízisz bárkája (1990)
  • Mars szekere (1990)
  • Hermész útja (1990)
  • Jupiter palotája (1991)
  • Vénusz ösvénye (1991)
  • Szaturnusz barlangja (1991)
  • Phaeton fogata (1991)

German edition: The book Raguel . Translated by Gottfried Feidel. Heyne, Munich 1993.

Esoteric

  • A mindennapi élet mágiája (1989)
  • Álomszótár (1989)
  • A szerelem mágiája (1990)
  • Pszichografológia (1990)
  • with Wictor Charon: Atlantiszi mágia (1990)
  • A gyógyító öröm mágiája (1991)
  • A tarot bölcsessége (1993)
  • Az álom mágiája (1994)
  • A smaragdtábla (1994)
  • with Wictor Charon: Academia Occulta (1994)
    • German: Academia Occulta. The secret teachings of the West. 2 volumes:
  • A fény mágiája (1995)
  • Az áldozat mágiája (1998)
  • Angyalok éneke (1998)
  • Merre tartasz, ember? (2000)
  • Misztériumok Koenyve (2000)
  • Dimenzió-tarot (2001)
  • Istenek tüze (2001)
  • Aranykor (2002)
  • A lélek anatómiája (2002)
  • Lángoló időfolyó (2002)
  • Csillagjóga (2004)
  • Örök pillanat (2004)
  • Szómágia (2004)
  • A nevek mágiája (2005)
  • A fény evangéliuma (2006)
  • Dimenzió tarot. A sorsalakítás művészete (2007)
  • Mágiák Könyve (2008)

Children's books

  • Pingvinkönyv (1957/1958)
  • Boróka néni kincse (1979)
  • Táltos Marci (1979)
  • Fityfiritty (1980)
  • Csillagvarázs (1996)
Pöttyös Panni / Pünktchen-Panni (children's book series)
  • Pöttyös Panni (1953)
    • German: Pünktchen. Translated by Ö. Salamon. Drawings by Anna F. Győrffy. Corvina, Budapest 1956. Also as: Pünktchen-Panni . Translated by Bruno Heilig. Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1957. Also as: Panni Pünktchen. Translated by Henriette Schade-Engl. Corvina, Budapest 1978, ISBN 963-13-0556-2 . Also called: Panni Pünktchen. LeiV, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-89603-258-4 .
  • Pöttyös Panni a Balatonon (1956)
    • German: Pünktchen-Panni at Lake Balaton . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1961.
  • Pöttyös Panni az óvodában (1956)
    • German: Pünktchen-Panni in kindergarten . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1958. New edition: LeiV, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-89603-347-5 .
  • Pöttyös Panni naplója (1959)
  • Pöttyös Panni és Kockás Peti naplója (1962)
  • Pöttyös Panni Hetedhétországban (1973)
  • Szia, világ! (1980)
  • Bolondos szerszámok (1981)
  • Eleven képeskönyv (1982)
  • Csupaszín (1983)
  • Harkály anyó (1983)
  • Zsákbamacska (1983)
  • Rőzse néni kunyhója I. (1985)
  • Pöttyös Panni az idővonaton (1989)
  • Furfangos szerszámok (2000)
  • Rőzse néni kunyhója II. (2002)
  • Pöttyös Panni az iskolában (2002)
  • Kedvenc meséi (2008)

more publishments

  • Practice to Overcome Fear. 4 audio cassettes / mp3 files.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Szepes, Mária
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherbach, Magdolna (maiden name); Papír, Mária (pseudonym); Orsi, Mária (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian author
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2007
Place of death Budapest