Mario Szenessy

Mario Szenessy ( born September 14, 1930 in Petrovgrad today: Zrenjanin, † October 11, 1976 in Pinneberg ) was a Hungarian- German writer and literary critic.

Life

Mario Szenessy grew up in Vojvodina in a multilingual environment, and moved in 1942 to Szeged in Hungary, where he studied Slavic and German, where he discovered especially Kafka and Thomas Mann. He was middle school teacher and taught Russian at the Medical College ( now the University of Szeged ). Due to its Thomas Mann publications, he received a scholarship from the Alexander -von- Humboldt Foundation and so came in 1963 to Tübingen, where he worked on The Black Swan Thomas Mann's last completed novel. Later he lived in Berlin. He began, encouraged by Inge and Walter Jens, to write German prose since 1967 and was working as a freelance writer with the publication of his first book transformation arts. After its initial publication, Marcel Reich -Ranicki wrote of him: "He who is not German, writes a much better German than almost anyone in this country write books ... bitter, sarcastic and lively, sharp, resilient and succinctly. " Since Szenessys Books but no popular successes were, he wrote, in order to feed his family, also reviews and translations and decided recently to start training as a qualified librarian. For his novel Lauter false passports or Memoirs of novel Skorzeny he received in 1971 the Hermann Hesse Prize.

Mario Szenessy died in 1976 in a lung cancer in his Pinneberger apartment.

About his literary works

Szenessy wrote in the epic tradition of Thomas Mann, whom he had chosen as a model, and his first books were praised by critics, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called him a " new, wonderful storyteller ." When he but for financial reasons in his last works made ​​concessions to public taste, this was criticized accordingly. But " remarkable remains the art Szenessys so completely immersed in the German language, which had become for all others to home. " Incessantly he tried to make known East European literature in Germany; particularly on the Hungarian writer György Konrad and Tibor Déry he drew attention with translations as well as a monograph.

In his novel Lauter false passports (1971 ), for which he was awarded the Hermann Hesse Prize, Szenessy stylized the preconceived image of the typical consumer novel by the oversubscription of the genre and designed it this way to an artifact. The author of a manuscript was played into the hands in which Skorzeny novel, the narrator and protagonist of the book, the faked a time stamp, a kind of confession stores. He had not only forged stamps, but also the accompanying letters, which is why he ran for the sake of correctness same cultural and historical studies and parallel invented the corresponding CVs. "The text demonstrates the pattern of tension-filled narrative, not least for the first name of the fictional author points out, that is dealt with in this book, the novel per se. For the language of the political thriller, espionage and mystery novel come as exotic yarns and Anglo-Saxon Posträuber romance. The introduction parodied the classic Bildungsroman, citing existing travesties. Roman imprisonment presents the genre of the trivial novel in all its facets, as was to be proved once more that the novel constitutes just no art form of lower rank. "

Works

  • Transformation arts. Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M 1967
  • Otto, the acrobat. Narratives. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M 1969
  • Tibor Déry. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1970
  • Lauter false passports or Memoirs of novel Skorzeny. Novel. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-455-07590-8; Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1973, ISBN 3-426-00317-1
  • The hat in the grass. Novel. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-455-07591-6; Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-426-00398-8
  • The clairvoyant. Novel. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-07593-2; Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1977, ISBN 3-404-05191-2
  • A sign of the times. In: The Time. No. 44/1976
  • In Paris with Jim. Narratives. With an afterword by Peter Wapnewski. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-455-07589-4; dtv, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01636-1

Translations

  • György Konrad: The Visitors. Novel. Translated from the Hungarian. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1973, ISBN 3-472-86333-1
  • György Konrad: The city's founder. Novel. Translated from the Hungarian. List, Munich, 1975, ISBN 3-471-77938-8

Secondary literature

  • Otto F. Beer: The Sorcerer's Apprentice remains modest. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 20, 1974
  • Marcel Reich -Ranicki: A newcomer consider us. Mario Szenessys remarkable story collection "Otto the acrobat ." In: The Time. October 31, 1969
  • Jochen Schmidt: A tour de force and all sorts of literary magic tricks. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 8, 1974
  • Eugen Skasa - White: Of the Big Bang last act In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. October 23, 1971
  • Heinrich Vormweg: secrecy surrounding a false knave. Mario Szenessys novel " Louder false passports ." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 9 / October 10, 1971
  • Willi Winkler: Mario Szenessy. In: Critical Dictionary of contemporary German literature. ISBN 978-3-88377-927-0
  • Dieter E. Zimmer: On the death of Mario Szenessy. In: The Time. No. 44/1976
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