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Béla Balázs (bronze portrait by Sándor Tóth)

Béla Balázs (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːla ˈbɒlaːʒ]) (4 August 1884, Szeged – 17 May 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet.

He was the son of German-born parents, adopting his nom de plume in newspaper articles written before his 1902 move to Budapest, where he studied Hungarian and German at the Eötvös Collegium.

He is perhaps best remembered as the librettist of Bluebeard's Castle which he originally wrote for his roommate Zoltán Kodály, who in turn introduced him to the eventual composer of the opera, Béla Bartók. This collaboration continued with the scenario for the ballet The Wooden Prince.

The collapse of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic under Béla Kun in 1919 began a long period of exile in Vienna and Germany and, from 1933 until 1945, the Soviet Union. György Lukács, a close friend during their youth, became a bitter enemy during the ordeal of the Stalinist purges.

In Vienna he became a prolific writer of film reviews. His first book on film, Der Sichtbare Mensch (The Visible Man) (1924), helped found the German "film as a language" theory, which also exerted an influence on Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin. A popular consultant, he wrote the screenplay for G. W. Pabst's film of Die Dreigroschenoper (1931), which became the object of a scandal and lawsuit by Brecht (who admitted to not reading the script) during production.

Later, he co-wrote (with Carl Mayer) and helped Leni Riefenstahl direct the film Das Blaue Licht (1932). Riefenstahl later removed his and Mayer's name from the credits because they were Jewish.^[1] One of his best known films is Somewhere in Europe (It Happened in Europe, 1947), directed by Géza von Radványi).

His last years were marked by petty vexations at home and ever increasing recognition in the German speaking world. In 1949, he received the most distinguished prize in Hungary, the Kossuth Prize. Also in 1949, he finished Theory of the Film published posthumously in English (London: Denis Dobson, 1952). In 1958, the Béla Balázs Prize was founded and named for him as an award to recognize achievements in cinematography.

Selected filmography[link]

• Madame Wants No Children (1926)

See also[link]

Poetry portal

• Ballets by Béla Balázs

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography and list of writings
• Béla Balázs at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by Béla Balázs at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Béla Balázs on Open Library at the Internet Archive
• Article on the relationship between Riefenstahl and Balazs

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Béla Lakatos

Personal information
Full name	Béla Lakatos
Date of birth	(1984-09-26) 26 September 1984 (age 27)
Place of birth	Salgótarján, Hungary
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Diósgyőri VTK
Number	7
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005-2007	Kaposvölgye VSC	35	(2)
2007-	Diósgyőri VTK	31	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 January 2010. † Appearances (Goals).

Béla Lakatos (born 26 September 1984) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Diósgyőri VTK.

External links[link]

• Profile

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Péter Balázs
Péter Balázs, 2009
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
In office 14 April 2009 – 29 May 2010
Preceded by	Kinga Göncz
Succeeded by	János Martonyi
European Commissioner for Regional Policy
In office 1 May 2004 – 21 November 2004
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Monika Wulf-Mathies
Succeeded by	Danuta Hübner
Personal details
Born	(1941-12-05) 5 December 1941 (age 70) Kecskemét, Kingdom of Hungary
Political party	Independent
Profession	diplomat, economist, politician

Péter Balázs is a Hungarian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, born in Kecskemét, 1941. In addition to his native Hungarian, he also speaks English, French, German and Russian.

He graduated from Budapest School of Economics in 1963 and worked in the Hungarian government until 1 May 2004 when his country joined the European Union and was appointed to the European Commission with Michel Barnier under Romano Prodi.

He became the Hungarian European Commissioner holding the Regional Policy portfolio until the end of the Prodi Commission on 21 November 2004. He was succeeded by László Kovács as the Hungarian Commissioner and Danuta Hübner as Commissioner for regional policy.

Balázs became a professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department of the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. In 2005, he established a new research center for EU Enlargement Studies at the CEU.

Péter Balázs became the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs in April 2009, serving until May 2010. Péter Balázs, when addressing the topic of Hungary-Slovakia relations compared the creation of the language law of Slovakia to the politics of the Ceauşescu regime on the use of language.^[1][2][3] He was succeeded by János Martonyi.

External links[link]

• Website on ec.europa.eu
• CV on ec.europa.eu
• Interview with Euractiv.com

References[link]

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