Jordáky Lajos a Kolozsvári Állami Magyar Színház irodalmi titkáraként (1949–1952)
Lajos Jordáky as Literary Secretary of the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj (1949-1952)

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about Jordáky Lajos’s activity in the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj. In the years of political transition (between 1945 and 1948/1949) the theatres of Romania also changed. The Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj – the most important theatre in Transylvania – was on the frontlines between liberty and totalitarian dictatorship. The Romanian Communist Party and its structures implemented censorship in the cultural life and in theatres as well. Jordáky, as an orthodox communist, was put in charge of the censorship in the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, as the literary secretary of the institution. Despite the fact that he was austere with the actors and tried to implement the ideas and aesthetics of socialist realism in the theatre, his heritage is ambivalent. Being arrested and tried in 1954, then released from prison in 1955, his first visitors were his former colleagues. He could not change the theatre into a communist one, rather the theatre changed him: from a Stalinist he became a Humanitarian Marxist.

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