Ferenc Molnar
 | Ferenc Molnar 12 January 1878 - 1 April 1952 Ferenc Moln ár was born in Budapest , the capital of Hungary , on January 12 , 1878, as the child of a middle-class family. Although his real name was Ferenc Neumann , he started working as a journalist as soon as he graduated from law school, so he took the name Molnár, as it was common to use pseudonyms in those years. Since he knew the city where he was born and the people living there very well, he was careful to be careful when writing his articles, but his reputation as a unique writer with a very relaxed and entertaining style was spreading under the name Molnár . At the age of 23, his first work , "The Lawyer", which humorously examined petty bourgeois life, received full marks from critics, was published. The play he wrote the following year , "Mr. Doctor", was very popular. And finally, in his late twenties, ' A Pál utcai fiúk ' "Children of Pal Street" began to be published in a weekly magazine whose fame spread all over the world. Nemecsek, Boka János, Csónakos, Geréb és, Barabás. The story of Feri Áts, the Pásztor Brothers, Kolnay, Csele, Weisz, Richter and other children became a phenomenon from the very first episodes. The weekly story, eagerly awaited by everyone, was published as a book in 1907 upon the insistence of the publishers, and became a bestseller by being translated into many European languages in less than two years. After a total of 45 editions were made in Hungary until 1968, it managed to enter the curriculum of schools in many European countries and was also included in the list of compulsory books in some schools. In the same year, the famous Hungarian director Zoltán Fábri was nominated for an Oscar by making the unforgettable film. Although his book, which he did not expect to become a world classic in 1907, started selling well from the first publication, he achieved his first success outside the country in the same year with his play "The Devil" (Az ördög) . The plays he wrote in the following years became popular by being staged in famous theater halls in America and European cities such as Vienna , Berlin and Rome . He always had problems with petty bourgeois societies. He loved to write them in a humorous and ironic language. For this reason, he was criticized a lot. Despite everything, he achieved great success with his work "Liliom" . It played to a sold-out crowd in theaters in Budapest in 1909 and in Vienna in 1912. In 1934, Austrian director Friedrich Anton Christian Lang adapted it to the cinema for the first time. The musical "Carousel", which was staged on Broadway in 1945, was inspired by this film. World War 1 He later published his memoirs as a war correspondent on the Galicia front during the conflict between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the Russians captured Lemberg . His works written in the 1920s and 1930s were loved by readers. He started spending time abroad in the 1920s. As a regular, he rented rooms in hotels in many countries. He was married three times. Their spouses were the famous Hungarian painter Margit Vészi , the prima donna Hungarian actress and singer Sári Fedák and the famous actress Lili Darvas . In 1939, out of fear of World War II, he took refuge in Switzerland and emigrated to the United States the following year. His subsequent life began to be depressive and restless. He was aware that he was getting closer to the end. Budapest, the city where he was born and loved very much, was in an unrecognizable state after two wars, and he could not bear it. Despite everything, he made another effort and initiated the staging of his work called "Panoptikum" . When this did not yield sufficient results, Ferenc Molnár cut off his contact with the outside world and became completely introverted, and soon passed away on April 1, 1952, in New York, at the age of 74 . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ferenc Molnár 's most well-known work, "The Children of the Street of Pál" , Budapest VIII., where the events in the novel took place and where the author lived at the time, was celebrated. Statues of novel heroes were erected in the region. Marriages : Some theater plays he wrote : 1903 – Mr. Doctor Some Novels : |
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