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Béla Balázs ( Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒlaːʒ]; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage.
Béla Balázs was a Hungarian writer, Symbolist poet, and influential film theoretician. Balázs’s theoretical work Halálesztétika (“The Aesthetics of Death”) was published in 1906; his first drama, Doktor Szélpál Margit, was performed by the Hungarian National Theatre in 1909.
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Balázs Béla, születési és 1913-ig használt nevén Bauer Herbert Béla [13] [14] ( Szeged, 1884. augusztus 4. [15] – Budapest, Józsefváros, 1949. május 17.) [16] Kossuth-díjas magyar író, költő, színész, filmesztéta, filmrendező, kritikus, filmfőiskolai tanár. [17]
Herbert Bauer, known to the world as Béla Balâzs (1894-1949), led the sort of life about which contemporary intellectuals might fantasize. He knew every one and he did everything.
Exiled in the Soviet Union since 1931, Balázs had seen his pre-war dream of a progressive cultural internationalism wither in the face of European fascism, a genocidal war, and Soviet state repression.
Mar 1, 2007 · The extract published here derives from a first full translation of Visible Man (Berghahn, forthcoming). In this ninety-page treatise, Balázs stakes a claim for film as an art that may restore to modernity the lost expressive capacities of the visual body.
Apr 18, 2024 · This project centres on Béla Balázs, a Hungarian-Jewish writer who worked as a journalist, opera librettist, symbolist poet, film critic, screenwriter and theorist in Budapest, Vienna and Berlin, and was fêted by contemporaries as an early champion of film art.
