Péter Nádas

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Péter Nádas at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017
The Hungarian writer Peter Nadas reads Konstantin Kavafis in the Cologne City Garden, March 2018
Péter Nádas - Leipzig Book Fair 2012

Péter Nádas [ ˈpeːtɛr ˈnaːdɒʃ ] (born October 14, 1942 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer and photographer .

Life

Nádas comes from a Jewish-Communist family. His mother died before the Hungarian Revolution and his father committed suicide in 1958. The orphan first studied chemistry and worked for many years as a photographer and photo reporter. In 1965 he published his first short story in a magazine, after which two anthologies with short stories appeared up to 1969. As a result, a seven-year publication ban was imposed on him. Since 1985 he has been working as a freelance writer.
From January 1981 to February 1982 he lived in West Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD . Since 2006 Péter Nádas has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, Literature section. He is also a member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres in Paris and the Széchenyi Academy for Literature and Art in Budapest. Péter Nádas has been married to Magda Salamon since 1990, with whom he has lived since 1962. Today he lives and works in Budapest and in Gombosszeg , a village in Zala county .

Work

literature

His books mainly deal with the situation in communist Hungary. His first story The Bible was published in Budapest in 1965 and, according to Dirk Schümer , already shows Nádas as a “veritable young genius.” “In a consistently sober and unemotional tone, which, despite the attention to detail, is clearly trained on Hemingway ,” said Nádas in his early work “ imperceptibly life lies of the communist upper class “just. The publication of his first novel The End of a Family Novel was prevented by censors in Hungary for several years before the book was finally published in 1977. In 1985 the 1,300-page novel Book of Remembrance was published. Péter Nádas had been working on the book since 1973. The plot consists of three interwoven narrative strands, one of which is set in the GDR in the 1970s, one in the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm at the turn of the century and another in Hungary at the time of the popular uprising of 1956. In 2005, the three-volume novel Parallel Stories was published , on the creation of which Péter Nádas had worked for a total of 18 years, and which traces the history of a Hungarian and a German family through apparently unrelated episodes through the 20th century. After five years of translation work, the novel was published in German in 2012. It contains "probably the longest sexual intercourse in literary history".

In the report My Death , he describes his experience of a near-death experience after a heart attack on the street on April 28, 1993 in Budapest. The book is a combination of text and photographs. In an interview with the photo journalist Ralf Hanselle, published in the magazine Photonews , Nádas calls the book a “modern book of hours”: “There is no God in this book. But people think about something that a modern or a postmodern person shouldn't think about: his death. "

photography

In 2012, Matthias Haldemann and Péter Nádas curated an exhibition of 150 photographs by Nádas and 200 other photographs by Hungarian artists under the title In the Darkroom of Writing at the Kunsthaus Zug . Transitions between text, image and thought .
The exhibition fluxus 33: Péter Nádas: Gloomy Idyll took place in the Museum of Modern Literature from October 6, 2015 to February 21, 2016 . Consolation of German romanticism . The exhibition was created through Nádas' examination of the landscape photographs of the writer and Holocaust survivor HG Adler , whose photo estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works

  • End of a family novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-03724-2 . Original: Egy családregény vége , 1977
  • In God's hand. Two chapters from a chronicle . Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-920392-87-6 . Originally: Isten kezében ülünk
  • Book of memory . Rowohlt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87134-023-5 . Original: Emlékiratok Koenyve , 1986
  • Homecoming. From writing the “Book of Memory” . Rowohlt, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87134-951-8 .
  • Dialogue. Four days in 1989 . Essay (with Richard Swartz). Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-13277-X . In the original: Párbeszéd - négy nap ezerkilencszáznyolcvankilencben
  • From heavenly and earthly love . Rowohlt, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87134-068-5 . Originally: Az égi és a földi szerelemröl , 1991
  • The resume. A yearbook . Rowohlt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87134-078-2 . Original: Évkönyv , 1989
  • Love . A story. Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-230-0 . In the original: Szerelem
  • Minotaur . Stories. Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-222-X . Original: Minotaur , 1997
  • Homecoming . Essays. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22577-8 . Original: Hazatérés
  • Without a break . Three pieces. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22578-6 .
  • Some light . Steidl, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88243-647-6 .
  • Nice history of photography . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8270-0401-2 . Original: A fotográfia szép története
  • Your own death . Steidl, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-88243-838-X . Original: Saját halál , 2004
  • Exercises of Freedom and Other Little Prose . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8270-0533-7 . Original: Talát cetli , 1992
  • Careful positioning . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0402-0 .
  • Forensics . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0759-9 .
  • Today . Narration and photographs. Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2008, ISBN 978-3-929566-58-1 .
  • The bible . Narrative. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0712-4 . Original: A Biblia , 1967
  • Siren song. A satyr game . In: Theater Theater. Odyssey Europe. Current pieces 20/10 . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18540-5 . Original: Szirénének , 2010
  • Shadows on walls . Photographs from the series Aufleuchtende Details and an extract from a novel. Publishing house Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2010, ISBN 978-3-929566-88-8 .
  • Parallel stories . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-04695-8 . Original: Párhuzamos történetek , 2005. ORF best list April 2012.
  • Arbor mundi . Nimbus, Wädenswil (Switzerland) 2012, ISBN 978-3-907142-68-4 .
  • Shadow history - light history . Photographs. Nimbus, Wädenswil (Switzerland) 2012, ISBN 978-3-907142-69-1 .
  • In the darkroom of writing. Transitions between text, image and thought . Nimbus, Wädenswil (Switzerland) 2012, ISBN 978-3-907142-75-2 .
  • Gombosszeg ; with illustrations by Susanne Theumer. Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2014, ISBN 978-3-9295-6698-7 .
  • Gloomy idyll. Consolation of German Romanticism . Marbacher Magazin 149, Marbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-944469-12-6 . (Book accompanying the exhibition "fluxus 33. Péter Nádas. Gloomy Idyll. Consolation of German Romanticism" in the Museum of Modern Literature )
  • Luminous details . Memories. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-4980-4697-2 . Original: Világló részletek , 2017.
  • Leni is crying . Essays. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-04699-6 .

Essays

  • A place with this name "In the silent murmur of the dead" - In search of Le Vernet . In: Lettre International , No. 71, Winter 2005
  • Headless Revolution. Hungary 1956 - Revolt of the masses and world political common sense. In: Lettre International, No. 75, Winter 2006
  • Secret societies . In: Lettre International , No. 83, Winter 2008.
  • Golden Adele. Kakanian speech on opportunism, scandal, crime and art . In: Lettre International , No. 87, Winter 2009.
  • The state of affairs. Why the attempt at a third modernization of Hungary did not succeed . In: Lettre International , No. 95, Winter 2011, pp. 40-49.
  • For and against. Threats to democracy - about the individual and the collective, the individual and the general . In: Lettre International , No. 103, Winter 2013, pp. 27–30.
  • Some crucial questions . In: Lettre International , No. 107, Winter 2014, pp. 45–49.

Awards

Movie

  • Series: Europe and its writers: Hungary tells about ... Péter Nádas and Péter Esterházy . Episode 5 in the series. Documentation. France 2013, 53 min. First broadcast on December 4, 2013 on Arte

Web links

Commons : Péter Nádas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Nádas turns 70 ZEIT.de, accessed on October 14, 2012
  2. FAZ No. 94, April 23, 2010, p. 36.
  3. FAZ No. 94, April 23, 2010, p. 36.
  4. ^ Matthias Haldemann : Péter Nádas In the darkroom of writing. Transitions between text, image and thinking , Wädenswil 2012, p. 5.
  5. Sandra Kegel in FAZ, March 10, 2012, p. L2. The cook, the thief and the lover or something like that
  6. fluxus 33: Péter Nádas: Gloomy Idyll. Consolation of German Romanticism ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 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. , dla-marbach.de . Retrieved October 8, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dla-marbach.de
  7. Book review by Andreas Breitenstein: Péter Nádas' childhood memories are a milestone in literature , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 17, 2017.
  8. Prize of the SWR best list 2012: Péter Nádas: "Parallelgeschichten", swr.de.de of September 17th, 2012.
  9. Then 1 week in the Arte archive online. Tone: Hungarian, tone and subtitles: either French or German.