Nyiri, Janos

Janos Nyiri was born in Budapest in 1932 . His parents are Tibor Nyiri and Julia Spitz , respected Hungarian Jewish writers. ^[2] Father’s most famous work was the novel Katona, Karácsony and the script for the Hungarian film Díszmagyar (Gala Costume) (Budapest, 1949). ^[4] Nyiri's parents divorced when he was a little boy, and Janos lived with his grandparents in the Tokai countryside. At the beginning of World War II, he was hiding from the Nazis and Hungarian anti-Semites with his mother and older brother Andras Nyiri. At that time, most of his family and classmates were killed in the Auschwitz and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps . After military service and officer training, he received the rank of lieutenant in the Hungarian army. Nyiri graduated from the Academy of Cinema and Dramatic Art in Budapest in 1954 and became a well-known theater director, worked in Kecskeméti , Szeged and Budapest. ^[3]

Nyiri took an active part in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution . Shortly after the suppression of the uprising, he decided to flee to Vienna , then to Paris , in the face of the threat of a probable death sentence that awaited many of his fellow revolutionaries. Nyiri was forbidden to return to Hungary to the 1973 amnesty. Then, as a journalist in the London newspaper New Statesman , he returned to his home country and wrote an article that was published under the title “A Chilly Spring in Budapest” (“Cold Spring in Budapest”). ^[five]

During the 1950s, Nyiri settled in Paris and got a job in the theater with such respected playwrights as Eugene Ionesco , Jean Anouil and Jean Genet . Nyiri also taught at the conservatory and practiced at Comedy Frances . As assistant director of the Jean-Louis Barrot Theater at the Odeon Theater , he met his future wife, Jenny Hippley , daughter of British actors Lindisferney Hamilton and Christopher Quest, and great-granddaughter of Heinrich Simon , a Jewish scholar, social democrat and leader of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Parliament in 1848 . In 1960, he founded his first theater troupe at the theater Le Jeune Théâtre de Marseille . He staged several successful productions of French and English classics, in particular, staged Moliere , Beaumarchais , Jean Racine and Oscar Wilde . He and his wife built a family house in southwest London, in which they lived until their death.

• "The Imaginary Invalid" (Theater Program), Vaudeville, London, 1968
• "Le Ciel est en bas" (Theater Program), L'Athénée , Paris, 1970
  • "If Winter Comes" (Film), BBC , London, 1980
  • "Ha már itt a tél" (Film), Magyar Televízió / MaFilm, Budapest, 1985
• "A Chilly Spring in Budapest" (Magazine Article), " New Statesman ", London, 8 June 1973
• "Streets" (Book), Wildwood House, London, 1979
• "Battlefields and Playgrounds" (Book), Macmillan , London, 1989; Farrar, Straus and Giroux , New York, 1992. Review: and playgrounds / Battlefields and Playgrounds, by Janos Nyiri (neopr.) // Kirkus Reviews . - 1995. - 1 November.
  • "Madárország" (Book), Makkábi Könyvkiadó-Téka Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1990; Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 2014
  • "Awakening The Day" (כוכבים של יום) (Book), Tel Aviv, 1998
  • "Die Juden Schule" (Book), Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1992

• Daniel Nyiri on the Internet Movie Database (János Nyíri's son)
• Books by Janos Nyiri , " Amazon.com "