- Gyula Háy
Gyula Háy (Julius Hay) (
May 5 ,1900 –May 7 ,1975 ) was a Hungarian communist intellectual and playwright.Gyula Háy was born in 1900. He was involved in the German communist movement in the 1920s, particularly in agit-prop plays.
In the 1950s he was a dissident in the
Hungarian Writers' Union , and advocated forworkers' councils in the months leading up to the Hungarian revolution of 1956. During the revolution, he played a significant role in theHungarian Writers' Union , as a revolutionary body. He was involved in the workers council movement, and wrote the radio appeal to the intellectuals of the world which was broadcast as the Parliament building fell to Soviet troops.Háy was arrested and sentenced to 6 years in prison in November 1957. After 3 and a half years in prison, he was released and a few years later in 1965, left Hungary for Switzerland with his wife Eva where he continued to write plays in the west as an emigre.
He died 1975 in
Ascona ,Switzerland .Works in English
* "Born 1900: a memoir"
* "The Horse" (Das Pferd) in "Three East European Plays"Penguin : 1970.
* "Have" a play, first UK performance at the Pit, London 1990. [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/HayJulius.htm#16001]References
Eva Hay, "Auf beiden Seiten der Barrikaden"
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