Péter Nádas

Péter Nadas [ pe ː na ː tɛr dɒʃ ] ( born October 14, 1942 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer and photographer.

Life

Nadas into a Jewish - communist family. His mother died before the Hungarian Revolution, his father chose to commit suicide in 1958. The orphan studied chemistry and worked for many years as a photographer and photojournalist. After the first publication of one of his stories in a magazine in 1965, he worked as a freelance writer. From January 1981 to February 1982 he was living at the invitation of DAAD in West Berlin.

His books deal mainly with the situation in Communist Hungary. The publication of his first novel the end of a family novel was prevented in Hungary for several years by the censors before the book finally appeared in 1977. In 1985, the 1,300 -page novel book of remembrance was published. Péter Nadas had been working on the book since 1973. The plot consists of three interwoven narrative strands, one of which in the GDR in the 1970s, one plays around the turn of the century and one in Hungary at the time of the uprising of 1956 in the seaside resort of Heiligendamm. 2005 appeared the three-volume novel parallel stories of its origin Péter Nadas had worked a total of 18 years and traces the story of a Hungarian and a German family from seemingly unrelated episodes through the 20th century. After five years of translation work of the novel was published in 2012 in German. It contains " probably the longest intercourse of literary history ."

The report 's own death, he describes his experience of a near-death experience after a heart attack on the street on April 28, 1993 in Budapest. The book is a combination of text sections and photographs. In an interview with the photo journalist Ralf Hanselle, published in the magazine Photo News, Nadas calls the book a "modern book of hours ": " There is no God in this book. But it is still thinking about something that a modern or postmodern man should not think: his death. "

Péter Nadas is married since 1990 with Magda Salamon, with whom he has lived since 1962. Today he lives and works in Budapest and Gombosszeg, a village in Zala county.

Photography

In the Kunsthaus train 2012 Matthias Haldemann and Péter Nadas curated an exhibition of 150 photographs Nadas ' and 200 more photographs of Hungarian artists under the title In the darkroom of writing. Transitions between text, image and thought.

Works

• A Biblia, 1967 (Eng. The Bible. Narrative. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0712-4 ).
• Egy családregény vege, 1977 ( the end of a German family romance. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-03724-2 ).
• Isten kezében ülünk, (Eng. In God's Hands. Two chapters of a chronicle. Literary Colloquium, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-920392-87-6 ).
• Emlékiratok könyve, 1986, book of remembrance. Rowohlt, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87134-023-5.
• (Eng. homecoming. From writing the " book of remembrance ". Rowohlt, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87134-951-8 ).
• Hazatérés, (Eng. homecoming. Essays. Rowohlt Paperback, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22577-8 ).
• Az Égi és a Földi szerelemröl, 1991 ( Eng: Of the heavenly and earthly love. Rowohlt, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87134-068-5 ).
• Párbeszéd - Négy nap ezerkilencszáznyolcvankilencben, (Eng. communing four days in 1989 essay ( with Richard Swartz ) Rowohlt Paperback, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-13277- X. .. ).
• Évkönyv, 1989 (Eng. The life runner. A yearbook. Rowohlt, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87134-078-2 ).
• Szerelem, (Eng. love. A story. Rowohlt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-230-0 ).
• Minotaur, 1997 ( German Minotaur. Stories. Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134 -222 X).
• (Eng. without a break. Three Pieces. Rowohlt Paperback, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22578-6 ).
• (Eng. Some light. Steidl, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88243-647-6 ).
• A Fotografia szép története, (Eng. Beautiful history of photography. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8270-0401-2 ).
• Talat Cetli, 1992 ( German freedom exercises and other Small prose. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8270-0533-7 ).
• (Eng. Careful localization. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0402-0 ).
• (Eng. forensics. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0759-9 ).
• (English Today. narrative and photographs. publisher Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2008, ISBN 978-3-929566-58-1 ).
• (Eng. shadows on walls. photographs from the series Illumination for details and a novel excerpt. publisher Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2010, ISBN 978-3-929566-88-8 ).
• Saját halál, 2004 ( ger 's own death. Steidl, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-88243 -838- X).
• Párhuzamos történetek, 2005 ( German parallel stories Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-04695-8 April 2012:. . ORF -best list ).
• (Eng. Arbor mundi. nimbus Wädenswil, Switzerland 2012 ISBN 978-3-907142-68-4 ).
• Szirénének, 2010 (. Ger siren song of a satyr play In. Theatre Theatre Odyssey Europa Currently pieces 20/10 Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18540-5. .. ).

Papers

• Secret Societies. In: Lettre International, No. 83, Winter 2008.
• Golden Adele. Kaka niche talk about opportunism, scandal, crime and art. In: Lettre International, No. 87, Winter 2009.
• The State of Things. Why the attempt at a third modernization of Hungary has failed. In: Lettre International, No. 95, Winter 2011.
• For this and contrast. Threats to democracy - through individual and collective, One and General In: Lettre International, No. 103, Winter 2013.

Awards

Film

• Series: Europe and its writer: Hungary tells of ... Péter Nadas and Péter Esterházy. Episode 5 of the series. Documentation. France December 2013, 53 min Release Date 4th 2013 Arte