Péter Halász (actor)
Péter Halász [ pe ː tɛr hɒla ː s] ( born August 20, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary, † March 10, 2006 in New York City ) was a Hungarian actor, director and theater maker. He became famous for his alternative theater groups, which he founded, first in Budapest ( Kassák Ház Stúdió ), and later in New York ( Squat Theatre ), where it was used until recently as a theater cult figure.
Life
The actor and director played 1962-1969 at the Egyetemi Színpad in Budapest numerous smaller and larger roles under the director József Ruszt. He founded the theater group Kassák Ház Stúdió that only in his, rented with his then partner, Anna Koós apartment occurred after 1972 in the Budapest Dohany Street because the communist cultural officials uttered a performance ban. In those days arose thirty different pieces, as a last resort, the Three Sisters by Chekhov in their pure male occupation.
1976 emigrated with his theater group Halász first to Paris a year later to New York City, where the group occurred under the name Squat Theatre. They worked among others with artists like Andy Warhol together. After the political changes in Hungary Halász came back to where he first appeared back in 1990 with his play, "She Who was the Helmetmaker 's Beautiful Wife" (Co-author Seth Tillet ) after long years. He has participated in numerous, mostly Hungarian film productions. For the main role in the film Sade Márki elete ( Marki De Sade, directed by András Szirtes ), he was awarded with the Budapest film actor in 1993 the award for best male lead.
In his last years he was constantly shuttled back and forth between New York and Budapest. In the Hungarian capital, he re-opened in the late 1990s together with András Jeles the Józsefvárosi Színház, a small theater in Budapest Josefstadt, which was exclusively recorded with alternative pieces.
Péter Halász ' last film Herminamező - Szellemjárás who acts by the inmates of a home for the mentally disabled, who oppose during the uprising of 1956 the Russian tanks, received the award for Best Experimental Film at the Budapest film actor in 2006.
The ill with liver cancer Halász bahrte be on 6 February 2006, a month before his death, on an open coffin in the Budapest Kunsthalle Műcsarnok itself and was adopted by hundreds of friends and theater fans. Among other the writer György Konrad held a " grave speech."