Paul Tabori

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Paul Tabori ( Hungarian Pál Tábori ; born May 8, 1908 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † November 9, 1974 in London - Kensington ) was a Hungarian-British novelist, journalist , screenwriter and essayist . Paul Tabori is considered to be the initiator of the re-establishment of the Hungarian section of the International PEN Club after the Second World War (1951).

Life

Tabori was born as the first of two sons of the left-wing journalist, writer and hobby historian Cornelius Tábori (1879-1944) and his wife Elsa (1889-1963) in Budapest (Josephstraße 16). His father was a member of the “Galileo Circle”, which Georg Lukács also belonged to. In 1914 his brother György was born, who later also worked as a writer as George Tabori and became known as a theater director. Paul Tabori published his first book as early as 1920. While his father was murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944 , his mother was fortunate to be able to escape deportation and survive.

In 1930 Paul Tabori received his doctorate in philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and then in economics and political science at the University of Budapest . Since 1926 he also worked as a journalist for various Hungarian press organs, from 1937 he moved to Great Britain because of the uncertain political situation. He became an editorial assistant at World Review in London , worked as a foreign correspondent for Britanova and as a film critic for the Daily Mail and was a radio reporter for the BBC for the German-occupied areas in Europe. From 1943 to 1948 Tabori worked as a screenwriter for Sir Alexander Korda 's film company and from 1950 to 1951 he worked in Hollywood. As a screenwriter, he wrote six episodes for the television series Guest at Errol Flynn and was involved in many other television series.

As a writer, Tabori was a prolific and extremely versatile writer. His early stories, written in Hungarian, are mainly youth books from the world of boy scouts . Another focus is fantastic and science fiction novels. These include The Green Rain (1961, German as The Green Flood ), in which an attempt to green the moon fails spectacularly, people are colored green by contaminated rain and uncontrolled plant growth begins all over the world. Tabori's science fiction also includes the three novels of the Hunter series. In addition to the fantastic, the occult and the erotic played an important role, especially in his later novels and non-fiction books. The novel The Cleft (1969) combines the three elements - SF, occultism and eroticism. He also worked as a translator, for example by translating two novels by Frigyes Karinthy from Hungarian into English, namely Utazás Faremidóba as Voyage to Faremindo and Capillária .

In 1960 he headed the first Writers-in-Prison-Committee of the International PEN Club in London, a year before Amnesty International was founded in London, and identified 56 imprisoned writers in Eastern Europe. In the 1960s he spent two years in the United States, teaching as visiting professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1966 and at City College of New York in 1967 .

After the death of his friend, the parapsychological researcher Harry Price (1881-1948), Tabori published his literary oeuvre at his will and was trustee of the Harry Price Library at the University of London . In 1950 he published the biography Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost Hunter , the first of several books on parapsychological topics.

In 1974 Tabori died at the age of 66. His estate is in the Senate House Library of the University of London .

bibliography

Novels (hungarian)
  • Svábhegyi séták (1927)
  • Új-Buda. Regény (1927)
  • Cserkész-sziget. Ifjúsági regény (1928)
  • Ági cserkész lesz. Vidám kis regény lányoknak és fiúknak (1929)
  • A nemzetközi örs. Kilenc cserkész kalandjai (1930)
    • English: International Patrol (1947)
  • No de Cinke! (1932)
  • Öt kis papaucs. Ifjúsági elbeszélés (1932)
  • Titokzatos sziget. Regény (1933)
  • A csiga. Egy magyar cserkész csodálatos élete (1933)
  • A mafekingi fiúk. Ifjúsági regény (1933)
  • Fehér great meséi. Ifjúsági elbeszélés (1933)
  • Az amazon club. Regény (1934)
  • A sánta dervis. Egy csodálatos élet regénye (1934)
  • Szülike (1935)
  • America új lírája. Antológia a mai amerikai költők verseiből (1935)
  • Cserkészek a vándorúton. Nyári történet (1936)
  • Mátyáshegyi Iliász (1937)
  • Csak a meztelen föld (1947)
Novels (english)
  • Sneeze on a Monday (1941)
  • The Ragged Guard (1942)
  • They Came to London (1943)
  • The Lion and the Vulture (1944)
  • Japanese Jeopardy (1944)
  • Private Gallery (1944)
  • Two forests (1944)
  • Bricks upon Dust (1945)
  • The Leaf of a Lime Tree (1945)
  • Solo (1948)
    • German: Solo. Nest-Verlag, Nuremberg 1950.
  • Heritage of Mercy (1949)
  • Uneasy Giant (1949)
  • The Talking Tree (1950)
  • The Frontier (1950)
  • Another David: The Story of Jean Cavalier (1951)
  • Salvatore (1951)
  • Perdita's end. A story of crime (1952)
  • Lighter than vanity. A novel of Hollywood (1953)
  • The Green Rain (1961)
    • German: The green deluge. Pabel (Utopia Grossband # 183), 1962.
  • Murder in Majorca (1961)
  • The Survivors (1964)
  • The Cleft (1969)
  • The Demons of Sandorra (1970)
  • Lily Dale. Was a marvel, was a cheat ... (1972)
  • Song of the Scorpions (1972)
  • Hazard Island (1973)
  • The Wild White Witch (1973, as Peter Stafford)
  • The Man Who Loved to Blow up Trains (1974, as Peter Stafford)
  • The Pleasure House (1974)
Hunters (series of novels)
  • 1 The Doomsday Brain (1967)
  • 2 The Invisible Eye (1967)
  • 3 The Torture Machine (1969)
collection
  • Private Gallery: A Collection of Stories (1945)
Short stories
  • The Very Silent Traveler (1953)
  • Fear (1965)
  • Janus (1966)
  • The Bridge (1967)
  • The Congregation of Rabbi Nachman (1969)
  • The Swinging Ghost (1970)
Books for children and young readers
  • Pierre of Normandy: A War Story (1944)
Non-fiction and anthologies
  • The Real Hungary (1939)
  • Epitaph for Europe (1942)
  • Hungarian Anthology (1943)
  • Peace Correspondent. A Journey of Discovery (1946)
  • Restless Summer: A Personal Record (1946)
  • '48, the Year of Revolutions (1947, with James Eastwood)
  • The Private Life of Adolf Hitler: The Intimate Notes and Diary of Eva Braun (1949)
  • Taken in Adultery, Being a Short History of Woman's Infidelity Throughout the Ages, Its Reward and Its Punishment (1949)
  • Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost Hunter (1950)
  • The Pen in Exile: An Anthology (2 vols., 1954/1956)
  • With whiskey and cigars: anecdotes about Winston Churchill. Translated by Stefan Klein. Diogenes, Zurich 1956.
  • Alexander Korda (1959)
  • The Natural Science of Stupidity (1959, also as The Natural History of Stupidity , 1993)
  • The Art of Folly (1961)
  • Twenty tremendous years. World War 2 and after (1961)
  • The Book Of The Hand; A Compendium Of Fact And Legend Since The Dawn Of History (1962)
  • A Pictorial History of Love (1966)
  • Sexual Behavior in the Communist World. An Eyewitness Report of Life, Love and the Human Condition Behind the Iron Curtain (1967)
  • Companions of the Unseen (1968)
  • A Tribute to Gyula Illyés (1968)
  • Dress and Undress: A Sexology of Fashion (1969)
  • The Humor and Technology of Sex (1969)
  • Maria Theresa (1969)
  • Erotic Edwardian Fairy Tales (1970)
  • Anatomy of Exile: A Semantic and Historic Study (1971)
  • Beyond the Senses: A Report on Psychical Research in the Sixties (1971, with Phyllis Raphael)
    • German: Signals from the Unknown: Report on unresolved cases from the 4th dimension. Translated by Ludwig Graf von Schönfeldt. Verlag der Europäische Bücherei Hieronimi, Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-8013-0101-X .
  • Erotic Victorian Fairy Tales (1971)
  • Secret and Forbidden (1971)
  • Social History of Rape (1971)
  • Pioneers of the Unseen (1972)
  • Stand up and fight. The Story of Emil Brigg (1972)
  • Fodor's Hungary (1973)
  • Ghosts of Borley: Annals of the Haunted Rectory (1973, with Peter Underwood)
  • Crime and the Occult: A Forensic Study (1974)

Filmography

  • 1951: Wolves in the night
  • 1953: Mantrap
  • 1953: Four Sided Triangle
  • 1953: Spaceways
  • 1954: Star of My Night
  • 1954: Five Days
  • 1954: Diplomatic Passport
  • 1954: Mask of Dust
  • 1954: Tale of Three Women
  • 1954–1955: The Vise (TV series, 17 episodes)
  • 1955: aka John Preston
  • 1955: Three Cornered Fate
  • 1955: Final Column
  • 1955: Count of Twelve
  • 1956: Faccia da mascalzone
  • 1956: Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1956: Adventure Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1956: Matinee Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1956–1957: Guest of Errol Flynn (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1957: Morning Call
  • 1957–1958: The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1958: Continental Nights (short film)
  • 1959: Calling All Lovers Eva (short film)
  • 1960: The Young Jacobites (short film)
  • 1960: The Man from Interpol (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1960: Edgar Wallace (TV series, 1 episode: The Malpas Mystery )
  • 1960: International Detective (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1961: Strip Tease Murder
  • 1962: Sir Francis Drake - The Queen's Pirate (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1962: Doomsday at Eleven
  • 1962–1963: Richard the Lionheart (TV series, 15 episodes)
  • 1964: Warning: Snappy Dog (TV series, 6 episodes)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva Behring et al .: Basic concepts and authors of East Central European exile literature 1945-1989. Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3515083898 , page 187
  2. ↑ Andrea Welker: Chronicle of life and work. In: George Tabori. Don't make a fuss! you. The magazine of culture . Issue 719, September 2001, Tamedia AG, Zurich, p. 40, table of contents ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurozine.com
  3. ^ A b c Short biography of Tabori , Senate House Library, London University
  4. ↑ Writers-in-prison-committee ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 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. , PEN Center Germany @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen-deutschland.de
  5. ^ Wilfried F. Schoeller : German PEN Club. The legacy of division is the principle of hope. In: Tagesspiegel , November 22, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Tabori, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tábori, Pál (maiden name); Hefner, Paul (pseudonym); Stafford, Peter (pseudonym); Stevens, Christopher (pseudonym); Tabor, Paul (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian, later British novelist, journalist, screenwriter and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1974
Place of death London