Paul Keri

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Paul Keri , Hungarian Kéri Pál Kéri , Paul Kéri (born April 5, 1882 in Budapest , † February 6, 1961 in New York City ) was a Hungarian journalist and writer.

Life

Paul Keri started working as a journalist for the daily newspaper Az Est (Evening) in Budapest in 1910 . He belonged to the circle around the first Prime Minister of the democratic republic of Hungary Mihály Károlyi and was involved in the aster revolution . During the Hungarian Soviet Republic he worked for the daily newspaper Népszava . When Admiral Miklós Horthy established his dictatorial regime in 1920, Paul Keri was arrested and tried and sentenced to death in 1921 on charges of complicity in the murder of the last Imperial Prime Minister, István Tisza . In 1922, through the mediation of the Russian government, he was exchanged for Hungarian officers who were still prisoners of war. Paul Keri moved to Vienna, worked for the social democratic press and the Arbeiter-Zeitung, and in 1933 became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers . In Vienna he was also a member of the Lodge Laboratory of the Grand Lodge of Vienna . After 1934 he fled to Prague and in 1939 to Paris . Finally he came to the USA where he founded the American Association of Democratic Hungarians in 1941 . He lived in New York City with his wife Etelka.

Fonts

  • Gas, tank and airplane; War of the future. - Peace of the future , E. Prager-Verlag, Leipzig-Vienna 1931. (= The face of time. A series of books for all 7)
  • Soldier of the Revolution, Koloman Wallisch , Prague 1934
  • Danube region and the Balkans , Prague 1937

literature

  • Nagy Csaba: A magyar emigráns irodalom lexikon a. Bp., 2000, Argumentum Kiadó-Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum és Kortárs Irodalmi Központ. P. 127

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter K. Kodek: Our building blocks are the people. The members of the Viennese Masonic lodges 1869–1938. Vienna, 2009 ISBN 978-3-85409-512-5 , p. 179
personal data
SURNAME Keri, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kéri, Paul; Kéri, Kéri Pál (huS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1961
Place of death New York City