László Németh
László Németh ( born April 18, 1901 in Nagybánya ( in Transylvania / Hungary); † March 3, 1975 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer.
Life
His father, József Németh (1873-1946), was a high school teacher in Nagybánya. His mother, Vilma Gaál (1879-1957), comes from a family of civil servants.
At Christmas 1925, he married Ella Démusz ( 1905-1989 ), the daughter of the innkeeper János Démusz. Between 1926 and 1944, they got six daughters, two of them lived only briefly.
He died on March 3, 1975 following a cerebral hemorrhage.
Study
In 1904 his family moved to Szolnok and 1905 to Budapest. The primary school ( 1907-11 ) and high school ( 1911-17 ), he graduated from here. In 1919 he studied Hungarian and French literature, in 1920 he began with medicine. In 1925 he joined the University from a dentist. Later he opened his own dental practice. He also worked as a school physician.
Németh mastered 11 languages and was an excellent translator.
Scripture Combinatorial activity
In December 1925 he won the first prize in the competition for short stories of Nyugat with his peasant woman Horváth story dies. Since 1926 published articles and book reviews in various magazines as Nyugat Protestáns Szemle ( " Protestant Rundschau " ) and Társadalomtudomány ( " social science "). 1929 appeared in the journal Napkelet ( " East" ), his first novel, the Human Comedy.
From the year 1932 he gave up his own magazine titled Tanu ( "Witness " ), in which he wrote alone. Until 1937, 17 issues appeared. Between 1934 and 1935 he headed the literary department of the Hungarian Radio. In 1934 he published his first book entitled Man and role.
In 1938 the National Theatre his first stage play In the flash light on, one year later, his great historical drama Gregory the Seventh.
In 1943 he went as a doctor in retirement. During this time he worked as a freelance writer, primarily as an essayist and critic.
During the German occupation of Hungary from 1943 to 1945, he wrote a line. After the war, he moved with his family to Békés.
1945-48 he taught at the School of Hódmezővásárhely Hungarian literary history and mathematics. In 1946 he got from the Ministry of Education commissioned the curriculum of the new " school of the working people " to prepare.
In 1951, he was the translation of Anna Karenina awarded the " József Attila Prize". In 1957 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize; the prize money he donated to the library of the high school of Hódmezővásárhely. In the last phase of his literary career, he settled in Tihany. In 1965 he was awarded the Herder Prize. 1969 his life's work has been re-laid.
His oeuvre includes nine novels, more than 20 dramas and about 15 volumes of essays. The " László Németh - Society " has set in Hódmezővásárhely a small memorial.
In German published novels
- Disgust: Roman ( Iszony, 1947)
- As the stone falls ( Iszony, 1947)
- Esther Egetö ( Égető Eszter, 1948)
- Mercy ( Irgalom, 1970)
- Mask of grief
- Sin ( BUN)
- Mourning ( gyász, 1935)
Dramas (selection)
- Woman Bodnár ( Bodnárné, 1931)
- Joseph the Second ( II József )
- Gregory the Seventh ( VII Gergely )
- In the flash light ( Villámfénynél )
- Endangered Hungarians ( Pusztuló magyarok, 1936-1946 )
- Henpecked ( Papucshős, 1938)
- Day of Elisabeth ( Erzsébet -nap, 1940-46 )
- Széchenyi (1946 )
- Atonement ( Eklézsia - megkövetés, 1946)
- Jan Hus ( Husz János, 1948)
- Galileo (1953 )
- The Traitor ( Az Arulo 1954)
- Petőfi in Mezőberény ( Petőfi Mezőberényben, 1954)
- Apáczai (1955 )
- The two Bolyai (A két Bolyai, 1961)
- Case ( Csapda )
- The death of Gandhi ( Gandhi Halala )
- Four Prophets ( Négy Profeta )
- Travel ( Utazás, 1961)
- Large family ( Nagy család )
- Fight against wealth ( Harc a Jolet ellen, 1964)