Ungarische Bezüge in der Prager Zeitschrift Ost und West (1837–1848)

Author(s): Mária Rózsa / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2018

The German cultural periodical Ost und West was published in Prague between 1 July 1837 and 10 June 1848. The goal of its editor, the librarian Rudolf Glaser was the mediation between East and West from Austria, Germany, Russia, and the Balkan countries. A lot of articles were published on Czech, Moravian, Russian, and Polish literature, but the culture of other countries was also mentioned in the form of novels, dramas, poems, travelogues, and other genres about regional matters, music, theatre, etc. Its target readers were the educated bourgeoisie of the age. The literary contributions in Ost und West were submitted by authors. Czech folk poetry played a special role among the subjects. Every now and then, Hungarian authors’ works were included (e.g. Pál Jámbor’s poem and Károly Kisfaludy’s novel) in German translation. Karl Georg Rumy, the enthusiastic collaborator of many German-language papers of the Central European region and a zealous propagator of Hungarian literature sent reports to the journal on several occasions. The reviews of the young Frigyes Szarvady also appeared in Ost und West. Julian Chownitz, among others, reported on local curiosities.

INTERFÉRENCES DE L’HISTOIRE LITTÉRAIRE

Author(s): Tímea Berki / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2019

The delimitation of a literature according to the ethnicity of the authors is problematic in the case of the Romanian men of letters who, at the beginning of the 20th century, wrote and published in Hungarian studies in the history of Romanian literature. Both the professional status, and the multilingualism played a major role in their scientific development. The basic criterion of judging the literature values is usually the aesthetic one; this is why writing in a foreign language, in this case – Hungarian, did not increase the literary recognition. It is the bibliographic value of such a corpus that makes it useful for the research of intercultural relations.

Az 1837-es kolozsvári énekeskönyv

Author(s): Otília Valéria Orosz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2020

For centuries, our hymnbooks bring to the fore not only the issue of musical literacy but also tradition. The Reformed church singing in Transylvania and the Partium was determined by traditions rather than by the sheet music itself. From the beginning of the 19th century the Transylvanian hymnbooks were created under the influence of the spirit of the time. A typical example of this is the hymnbook edited under the influence of theological rationalism in 1837. The hymnbook, edited by Seprődi János in 1908, only partially corrected the melody deterioration while the edition of 1923 further preserved the sorting of cut and leveled melodies, which lacked psalms and old Hungarian songs. If we compare the 1837 hymnbook with the one published in 1921 in Debrecen, which also provides balanced melodies, we can see that melodies enriched with melisma remain in practice in Transylvania and this tradition is still preserved in many places to this day.

Az emlékezés alakzatai Rozsnyai Dávid és Sámuel kalendáriumaiban

Author(s): Kinga Papp / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2020

The article presents the annotated almanacs of the Ottoman-language interpreter Dávid Rozsnyai. These annotations mark a series of events and deeds noted by the interpreter that fill in the blanks of his biography, as it appears in the rest of his ego-documents (journal, memoirs, autobiography), covering the years of his life for which we also have very few information from other sources. From 1708, in his almanacs start to appear annotations written by his son, Sámuel. At the beginning, the youngster uses the pages left blank to practice his writing and translation skills, to draw and imitate the printed text. Later on, Sámuel starts to write his own annotations and, eventually, he “translates” into writing the annotations dictated by his father, together with drafts of letters, probably also dictated by the senior Rozsnyai. These joint annotated almanacs not only mark the passing of time and the merging of memories, but also become instruments of memory and remembrance. The annotations also show the common practice of writing inside the family and its common mentality towards writing and familial ego-documents.

Kaposi Sámuel. Egy elfeledett polihisztor elfeledett írása (?)

Author(s): István M. Ledán / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 6/2020

In this study, we briefly outline the possible sources of a disputation written by the Transylvanian polyhistor Sámuel Kaposi and make reserved statements about the authorship and originality of this disputation. Our aim is to draw attention to this interesting text, which is perhaps the first Hungarian work dealing with spiritual desertion, a topic peculiar to English and Dutch Puritans.

AKI ÁLLVA TEKINT SZÉJJEL BÁCSKASÁGUNK KÖZELI ÉS TÁVOLI VALÓSÁGÁBAN (Köszöntő a néprajztudós születésnapjára)

Author(s): Ferenc Mák / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2020

The 70th birthday of the ethnographer, native historian and historian Bela Csorba is an appropriate event to review and evaluate the results of this fruitful and creative career. The focus of the scientist's interest was the history of his native village, Temerin, however, when exploring the events and values of folk life he always liked to see and expand the area of southern Bacska. During his research career of more than half a century, he has always, as in every activity, evaluated the work of the Hungarian community in creating authentic values, occasionally emphasizing the importance of the activities of some exceptional individuals. In his ethnographic books he summed up two hundred years of the history of his beloved community.

Csongor Lőrincz – Péter L. Varga (eds.): Herausforderung der Literatur: Péter Esterházy [The Challenge of Literature: Péter Esterházy] - András Kányádi (ed.): Péter Esterházy et le postmodernisme [Péter Esterházy and Postmodernism]

Author(s): Stephan Krause / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Orientalizmus a századforduló magyar irodalmában

Author(s): Dóra Kolta / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 821/2021

„...mi ketten rettentő veszedelmesek vagyunk egyik a másra...” Buday György szerelme: Bauer Lilla. Életrajzi vázlat

Author(s): Katalin Varga / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XII-XIII/2018

In accordance with photographer Marian Reismann’s (1911–1992) wish in her last will, her legacy came into the possession of the Hungarian Photography Museum, Kecskemét in 1992. While processing the heritage, a thick folder was found with a further instruction from the photographer, saying that after her death the folder should be handed over to the Petőfi Literary Museum. The folder contained 245 letters by György Buday (1907–1990), woodcutter, book designer and set designer. The letters written between October 1933 and March 1938 were addressed to eurythmic dancer Lilla Bauer (1912–2011 or 2012). Although we could not find Lilla Bauer’s replies in either Marian Reismann’s or György Buday’s legacy, Buday’s letters themselves amount to a sort of diary, recording not only his art work and the events of his life in Szeged, but also the phases of Lilla Bauer’s artistic development and career. Up to the early 1990’s, Lilla Bauer’s person, art, and romantic relationship with Buday were scarcely known, since she spent most of her adult life outside Hungary. However, the emergence of Buday’s letters made it possible to do research and get to know more and more about her life and art. Provided her heritage returns to Hungary from England, where the dancer died a few years ago, or at least it becomes accessible, researchers will be able to survey her life and work as a whole, thus contributing to the history of eurythmics both in Hungary and worldwide. Lilla Bauer was born into a well-to-do middle-class family. After finishing her secondary education, from the late 1920s on she attended a eurythmics school run by eurythmic dancer and choreographer Olga Szentpál (1895–1968), who used the Dalcroze method. The annual school exams were public events and several papers published reviews about them, each mentioning Lilla Bauer’s development and outstanding performance, anticipating a bright career for her. It is clear from the reports that the students of the school performed in events outside the school as well as at theatre performances, moreover, the most talented ones, such as Lilla Bauer, gave solo dance performances and took part in international competitions. Having graduated in 1933, she immediately gave a solo performance on March 14, participated in a dance competition in Warsaw with huge success in June and, in August, she danced with the Szentpál Company at the Szeged Open Air Theatre Festival, taking part in the production of The Tragedy of Man, a drama by Imre Madách. It was then that she met Buday, the set designer of the production, and they fell in love with each other. In the autumn of 1933, in order to obtain further training and experiences, Lilla Bauer joined the ballet company of Kurt Jooss, world famous choreographer of the dance production The Green Table. The company fled Germany following Hitler’s rise to power; and, after a short stay in the Netherlands, in the spring of 1934, they settled down in Dartington Hall, Dartington, Devon, England, on the estate of philanthropists Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst. The dance company was based there for rest and rehearsal, and set out for tours from Dartington. Lilla Bauer appeared on stage in Hungary again in 1937 and 1938 as a member of the Dance Theatre of Kurt Jooss. She trained the dancers as well as performed in the production of The Tragedy of Man, and also gave a two-hour long solo dance performance. By then her relationship with Buday had terminated. Curiously, however, both of them ended up living in England. Apart from the numerous considerable letters, there are several wood engravings and woodcuts depicting Lilla Bauer by György Buday to commemorate the short-lived relationship of two exceptional artists.

Márai Sándor, Lumânările ard până la capăt

Author(s): Agyagási Hajnal / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2005

Review of: Márai Sándor, Lumânările ard până la capăt, Bucureşti, Humanitas, 2004, 162 p.

Kunstkritik und Sezession

Author(s): Endre Hárs / Language(s): German Issue: 30/2021

The review of: Ilona Sármány-Parsons: Bécs müvészeti élete Ferenc József korában, ahogy Hevesi Lajos látta [Wiens Kunstleben in der Epoche Franz Josephs, wie Ludwig Hevesi es gesehen hat]. Budapest: Balassi Kiadó 2019, 472 S.

Pázmány Péter és Erdély – régebbi és újabb adatok

Author(s): Emil Hargittay / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2021

This topic is not a new one in the Pázmány scholarship, but in the light of recent sources and analyses, it is worth turning our attention to the subject. The study sheds light on the issue from three perspectives: the biography, the archbishop’s direct contact with the Princes of Transylvania, and Pázmány’s subjective attitude. His correspondence with princes and additional sources clearly show that Pázmány’s position demonstrates full consistency in content. The opinion of the Archbishop loyal to the Habsburgs has been strengthened over the years, and his personal position on the situation in Hungary and Transylvania is not contradictory, and even less shows signs of concealment.

A csikóbőrös kulacstól a kannás bordalig. A bordal változásai a magyar lírában

Author(s): Csaba Horváth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2021

The drinking song as a genre just as the intoxication as a topic always belonged to literature. The drinking song was very popular in Hungarian literature in the 18th-19th centuries. It became a very significant form for two reasons. On the one hand it was based on a very strong ethical and aesthetical community which gave a collective voice to the writers of drinking-songs, and on the other hand wine as a drink was a forming element of the early modern nationalist Hungarian identity within the Habsburg Empire. The genre was so popular that most of the representative authors of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and different eras of Modernism wrote poems of this style - while every one of them shaped the genre for their own way of writing. For the 20th century the drinking song’s possibilities have changed completely. The historical and ontological experiences of the World Wars brought a brutal end to the previously accepted relations between the individual and his/her community. The ethical and poetical community which once had given the basis to the genre was over. The so called Kádár-era, the “soft-dictatorship” of the second half of the 20th century, converted the joy of common drinking into the alcoholism of lonely self-destruction, so the Hungarian poetry of the epoch had to “renew” the genre. The sometimes ironic, sometimes melancholic way of speaking was able to express that the values of the ancient drinking songs were not valid any more.

Literatura jako strategia przetrwania. Przypadek Węgier

Author(s): Jagoda Budzik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 17/2021

Review of: Jagoda Budzik - Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert, Od idylli do ironii. Literatura węgierska wobec Zagłady w latach 1944–1948, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2021, 296 s.

Tamási Áron hazatérései. (adatok az 1970–1989 közötti romániai Tamási-kiadások történetéhez)

Author(s): Gyula Dávid / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 848/2022

Additional data on the history of publishing Tamási's works between 1970-1989.

„Igen, ez az üres karosszék is emlékeztet reá…”. Tamási Áron tárgyi hagyatékának néhány darabjáról

Author(s): Dalma Török / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 848/2022

About some pieces of Áron Tamási's tangible legacy.

Tamási Áron mentsége

Author(s): Ágnes Magyary / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 848/2022

Erdély egy mém – állítja László Noémi, és én nem fogok vele vitatkozni. Azonban olyan sikamlós területekre sem akarok tévedni, hogy kiben milyen kép él Erdélyről – szabadtéri néprajzi múzeum, vagy tejjel-mézzel folyó Kánaán, hiszen Trianon a hülyének is megérte. Bár az ilyesfajta képzeletbeli tévelygések az életerős fantázia jelei.

A bamba bomba

Author(s): István Árkossy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 851/2022

Short story by Árkossy István.

Egy Petri-vers Rolf Bossertet olvas. Egy 1986-os Bossert-vers margójára

Author(s): Ferenc Vincze / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 852/2022

A hetvenes-nyolcvanas évek magyar líratörténetének jelentős költészeti teljesítményeként tarthatjuk számon Petri György líráját, melyet nem csupán a kortárs líra Petri szövegeihez visszanyúló, azt továbbgondoló vagy azzal vitába szálló tendenciája mutathat fel, hanem egyúttal az értelmező próza számos produktuma is. Az egyik legutóbbi monografikus igényű munka lényeges szempontja hangsúlyosan az volt – mint azt a szerző, Horváth Kornélia a bevezetésben megfogalmazza –, hogy a kötetben helyet kapó „tanulmányok erőteljes figyelmet szentelnek a Petri-líra azon tulajdonságának, amelyet a magyar és a világlírához való igen szoros és rendkívül sokrétű kapcsolódásként nevezhetünk meg.

Receptarea literaturii maghiare de către critica literară românească

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2022

În perioada interbelică, s-a manifestat în rândul intelectualilor români ardeleni un interes constant pentru studierea literaturii maghiare și a relațiilor culturale și literare româno-maghiare. În cadrul acestei generații de intelectuali, proeminentă este personalitatea lui Ion Chinezu, critic literar important, autorul primei sinteze de referință despre literatura maghiară din Transilvania, Aspecte din literatura maghiară din Transilvania (1919-1929), publicată la Cluj, în 1930, carte care, datorită valorii sale documentare și exegetice, s-a bucurat de un ecou important în presa de limbă maghiară, fiind considerată cea mai semnificativă și sistematică analiză a literaturii maghiare ardelene din primul deceniu de după Unirea din 1918.