Miklós Mészöly

Miklós Mészöly (1987)

Miklós Mészöly ( January 19, 1921 in Szekszárd - July 22, 2001 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer .

Life

Mészöly was born in Szekszárd in southern Hungary in 1921. His education took place from 1938 to 1942 at the Eötvös Loránd University . He studied law, but also worked as a physical education teacher after World War II. Mészöly worked as an employee at radio and various magazines and ultimately exclusively as a writer. He wrote novels, stories, dramas and fairy tales for children. In addition to numerous other awards, he received the Kossuth Prize in 1990 . From 1949 until his death he was married to the psychologist Alaine Polcz (1922–2007). Mészöly lived in Budapest, where he died in 2001 at the age of 80. In the obituaries he is repeatedly referred to as the "father figure" or the "superfather of younger Hungarian literature".

Gravestone of Miklós Mészöly

Works in German

• The death of the athlete. Novel. Hanser 1966
• Saul. Novel. Hanser and St. Benno Verlag, each 1970 (also udT Saul )
• Designs. Literary. Colloquium, Berlin 1975, ISBN 978-3-920392-45-5
• Map with cracks. Stories. Hanser 1976, ISBN 978-3-446-12178-2
• Flashbacks. Novel. Hanser 1980; as TB 1999 at Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-39557-8
• High school. Stories. Volk u. Welt, Berlin 1981
• Winged horses. Stories from Central Europe. Hanser 1991, ISBN 3-446-15031-5
• Family flood. Novel. Babel-Verlag Tulay, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-928551-24-3
• The enchanted fire brigade orchestra. Fairy tales and stories. Sanssouci, Zurich 1999, ISBN 978-3-7254-1159-7

Web links

• Miklós Mészöly in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait at Hanserverlag , accessed on December 18, 2017
2. ↑ Miklos Mészöly is dead: The father figure: on the death of the Hungarian writer , tagesspiegel.de, July 25, 2001, accessed on December 18, 2017
3. ↑ Péter Nádas (translated by Zsuzsanna Gahse ): Die große Entrümpelung , nzz.ch, July 25, 2001, accessed on December 18, 2017