György Dalos

György Dalos [ ɟørɟ dɒloʃ ] ( born September 23, 1943 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer and historian.

Life and work

The childhood spent Dalos with his grandmother because his father died in 1945 from the effects of the labor camp, in which they had spent it because of the Jewish origin of the family. From 1962 to 1967 studied Dalos history at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and then worked as museologist in Budapest. In 1964 he published his first volume of poetry. Because " Maoist activities" Dalos was sentenced to seven months in prison in 1968, which was suspended. After imposition of a professional and partial publication ban Dalos worked as a translator. In 1977 he was one of the founders of the democratic opposition movement in Hungary. In 1984 he was a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme and became a member of the Research Centre for East European University of Bremen. 1988/89 he was part of the editorial board of the East German underground magazine east cross. From 1995 to 1999 he was Head of the "House of Hungary " in Berlin in 1999 and coordinator of the focal topic " Hungary", the Frankfurt Book Fair. In his book Hungary in a Nutshell (2004) Dalos warned his country prophetic about to answer social questions authoritarian.

Since 1987 he has worked as a freelance journalist living in Vienna and was a staff member at the German radio stations and newspapers. Dalos has been a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Arts. Dalos was until the end of 2011 co-editor of the German weekly newspaper Friday. He lives as a freelance author in Berlin.

Some of his books have been translated in England, France, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Turkey, Portugal, Russia, Australia, Israel, the U.S. and the Netherlands.

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Works (selection)

  • My situation in the situation. Novel. Berlin 1979.
  • My grandfather and world history. A documentary assembly. Berlin 1984.
  • Neunzehnhundertfünfundachtzig. A historical report. German treatment of Reinhard white chicken. Berlin 1982.
  • Archipelago goulash. The emergence of the democratic opposition in Hungary. Essay. Bremen 1986.
  • Circumcision. A story, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Workers of the world, excuse me! End of the Eastern Bloc joke. Bremen 1993.
  • The hiding players. Novel. Frankfurt / M. In 1994.
  • The skirt of my grandmother. Early prose. Frankfurt / M. In 1996.
  • Guest from the Future. Anna Akhmatova and Sir Isaiah Berlin. A love story. Frankfurt / M. In 1996.
  • Olga - Pasternak's last love. Almost a novel. Hamburg 1999.
  • The seeker of God. A story. Frankfurt / M. 1999
  • The journey to Sakhalin. In the footsteps of Anton Chekhov. Hamburg 2001.
  • Cliques. Novel. Cologne 2003.
  • Hungary in a Nutshell. History of my country. Munich in 2004.
  • 1956th The uprising in Hungary. Munich 2006.
  • The Balaton Brigade. Narrative. Hamburg 2006.
  • Art Nouveau. Novel. Berlin 2007.
  • The curtain goes up. The end of the dictatorships in Eastern Europe. C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2009.
  • Gorbachev. Man and power. C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2011.
  • Farewell Comrades! C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2011.
  • The case of the economists. Novel. Berlin, 2012.

Article

  • At the end of the dictatorships in Eastern Europe: A view of Hungary and the GDR, in: Robertson - von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): The Challenge of Democracy. Democratic, parliamentary, well? ( = Cultural studies interdisciplinary / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, vol 6 ), Baden -Baden 2011.
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