Bela balazs biography

Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet

For other people with the same name, see Herbert Bauer.

The native form of this personal name is Balázs Béla. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Béla Balázs (Hungarian:[ˈbeːlɒˈbɒlaːʒ]; 4 August – 17 May ), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage.

Balazs pronunciation

He was a proponent of formalist film theory.

Career

Balázs was the son of Simon Bauer and Eugénia Léwy, adopting his nom de plume in newspaper articles written before his move to Budapest, where he studied Hungarian and German at the Eötvös Collegium.

He was the brother of the biologist Ervin Bauer.

Balázs was a moving force in the Sonntagskreis or Sunday Circle, the intellectual discussion group which he founded in the autumn of together with Lajos Fülep, Arnold Hauser, György Lukács and Károly (Karl) Mannheim.

Meetings were held at his flat on Sunday