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Subjective preface
I already wrote earlier than that my life in Budapest started on the József Katona Theater, the place I labored as a cleaner. In each manner, this surroundings was an amazing faculty for an eighteen-year-old woman from the countryside. I educated to be an actor, and I could not say that I used to be happy with what I skilled behind the scenes in what was undeniably the most effective theater within the nation on the time.
After all, I additionally noticed Mária Ronyecz many occasions, even up shut. Exterior the stage, he continuously smoked, lit from one cigarette to a different, and ceaselessly raised his glass. Perhaps he was by no means drunk, however he was continuously “floating”.
She was an amazingly nice actress, a real tragedy, the type of which few are born. He was given solely forty-five years, however he skilled as a lot struggling throughout that point as he did in every other hundred years.
He grew up along with his grandparents
He was born in Kunágota on June 25, 1944, and went to elementary faculty there, whereas his mother and father have been attempting to get by in Budapest within the Fifties. We do not know a lot about his childhood, however it’s fairly sure that the fixed absence of his mother and father could have been a critical trauma for him in his early years.
It isn’t attainable to elucidate to a baby with logic why his mother and father don’t stay with him, why he spends his on a regular basis life along with his grandparents within the southern tip of the nation. He was lastly capable of go to secondary faculty in Budapest, graduating from Lajos Kossuth Business Technical Faculty. It quickly grew to become clear how gifted he was, he recited many occasions at varied occasions. After commencement, he was admitted to the Theater and Movie Academy, however Zoltán Várkonyi didn’t belief him, so he labored as an English-speaking export-import invoicer at Transelektro Electrical energy Commerce Firm for nearly a yr, and within the meantime he was a member of the newbie theater firm of the FMH (Fővárosi Műlvödési Ház).
Supply: Fortepan / János Kende
Lastly, he joined Ottó Ádám’s class the next yr: László Dózsa, Zsuzsa Liska, Annamária Szilvássy, István Uri, András Márton, Tünde Szabó, László Vajda and László Joós have been his classmates, and he obtained his appearing diploma in 1967.
“I felt like a fly caught in a vinegar horseradish…”
He believed himself to be a “grey mouse” in school, and later stated: “I felt like a fly caught in a vinegar horseradish…”
He did not imagine that he was attention-grabbing sufficient, gifted sufficient, lovely sufficient, although he was given alternatives, however he may by no means regain the self-confidence he had misplaced in childhood, it doesn’t matter what he performed and regardless of how a lot recognition he obtained. At the same time as a university pupil, he was inspired by Mária Sulyok, who was an actual outdated lady within the theater world and really hardly ever met her to encourage newbies. She felt the tragedy in him, as a result of he was too.
Ronyecz’s fights are additionally characterised by the equally legendary case when, as a freshman, he appeared in The Trojan Ladies on the Szeged Out of doors Video games. After one of many performances, he approached Zoltán Latinovits and requested him: “Zoli, will I develop into an actor…?” And Latinovits replied: “It will not be… it already is…”
Throughout his appearing internship in Madách, as a result of his one-sentence function, he was capable of tour the world performing the “Beggar’s Opera”, one thing that fairly just a few folks had the chance to do on the finish of the sixties.
The troupe traveled from Moscow to Turin, and he at all times stated solely this on stage: “However you are laughing unusually, Jenny…”
Destiny compensated him later, as a result of within the Nationwide, in 1981, he may already be the title character: Kocsma Jenny. It was performed in a distinct translation beneath the title Opera in three acts, however it was the identical play: sure, he laughed unusually and sang heartbreakingly, directed by Yuri Lyubimov in a cult efficiency.
After three years in Pécs, Budapest
After school, he bought a contract in Pécs and likewise a variety of alternatives. As an actor from Pécs, on the age of solely 24, he performed the function of Gertrudis within the tv adaptation of Bánk bán, directed by Miklós Szinetár. This isn’t an on a regular basis likelihood for a profession newbie enjoying within the countryside, since at the moment nearly the entire nation adopted the TV video games, so the face, identify and voice of Mária Ronyecz shortly grew to become identified.
Recording of the TV model of József Katona’s drama Bánk bán within the MTV studio. Zoltán Latinovits as Bánk and Mária Ronyecz as Gertrudis – Supply: Fortepan / Zoltán Szalay
(Theater-going members of my era have been nonetheless conscious of precisely how nice an actress she was, however nobody at WMN, for instance, knew who she was at first after I indicated that I want to write an article for the eightieth anniversary of her delivery.)
He was capable of play about twenty roles on this brief time in Pécs, adopted by twelve years within the Nationwide, the place he additionally bought necessary roles, although it was throughout that interval that the previous director, Tamás Main, and his successor, Endre Marton, fought with one another. I wrote about this just a few years in the past.
Orphan Kata Bethlen
Within the mid-seventies, a number of monodramas gained the popularity of the viewers: Mari Szemes shone as Médea, and Éva Ruttkai shone as Lotte alone on stage. In 1975, Ronyecz additionally got here up with an unparalleled success monodrama: Kata Árva Bethlen, which he carried out within the Royal Cellar of the Buda Fortress.
Ronyecz, who hardly ever speaks, talked at size about this function with Anna Földes, it’s price it to learn your mature ideashis accountable and aware angle, his doubts and the slight pleasure that the unanimous skilled and public success gave him.
To place it mildly, it was not troublesome for him to determine with orphanhood.
By the way in which, he as soon as stated, when requested about his appearing goals, that he would not have one: “I even play the chair leg, that is why I grew to become an actor”.
Motion pictures in all portions
We noticed Mária Ronyecz in many alternative movies, she performed in Sevasz, Vera! within the well-known movie show and likewise in Füyok a téren. Love Emília Ódor! I additionally beloved her function as a nun within the Sándor Pál film. In Gothár–Bereményi’s movie Megáll az vítá, it was stunning how she introduced the ill-fated instructor “Pickleface” to life.
Within the film Bespectacled, he really bought to put on his iconic glasses, one thing he hardly ever bought to do on stage. In the long run, she even appeared within the tv collection Linda within the function of a detective who’s interested in the humanities and isn’t appropriate for investigations, this was her final movie look.
Within the TV collection Linda – Supply: Hungarian Tv
Massive roles in Katona
Many individuals from the Nemzeti left with him (for instance Hilda Gobbi and Main Tamás) in 1982 from the previous chamber theater of the Nemzeti to the József Katona Theater, based by Gábor Székely and Gábor Zsámbéki.
This was his final firm the place he performed till his loss of life, and he was actually surrounded by an mental surroundings that he had at all times missed.
I’ve solely seen him stay right here, Schwajda (Saint household) and Spiro (Rooster head) he additionally excelled in his performs. I additionally watched Coriolanus many occasions. In her final function, she appeared as a dying spouse in Elias Canetti’s Wedding ceremony. The efficiency was eerie and harrowing as a result of whereas enjoying the dying spouse, she was actually dying and actually turning into a spouse once more.
A wierd love
When it turned out that she was incurable, and the most cancers nearly devoured her whole jaw, Péter Gál Molnár, the brazenly homosexual, feared theater critic, remarried Mária Ronyecz and persistently cared for her till her loss of life.
They’d been married and divorced as soon as earlier than, however the unusual emotional bond between them was by no means damaged. It was rumored that Ronyecz was really interested in girls, however he by no means admitted it. Then again, an alibi relationship got here in helpful for MGP, as a result of he was become an informant, persecuted and blackmailed by the system for being interested in his personal intercourse.
MGP was a particularly divisive determine in Hungarian cultural public life, both beloved or hated. His vitriolic fashion and sharp language have been at all times able to reply when somebody objected to one in all his criticisms. THE Popping out in his e-book, revealed after his loss of life, the next testimony may be examine their relationship:
“I am out of fresh shirts. Ronyecz supplied to clean. We went to the lavatory. The shirts remained unwashed.”
This ardour belonged to just one lady all through MGP’s life, and that was Mária Ronyecz.
That is how Mihály Kornis wrote in Litera in his weblog About Mária Ronyecz and her love affair with MGP – lengthy after their loss of life, in 2018:
“Mari, what did you drink for? Earlier than you bought sick, let’s name it that, if I noticed you in an actor’s bar or in a TV present, from the nook of the room, anyplace, often for weeks in a foggy state, after that my soul wandered round you, you went backwards and forwards in my head. […] You can be in huge hassle if Péter Molnár Gál grew to become the I-don’t-know-what. Your curse on your self.
“I perceive, you perceive, that is the way you perceive that I do not perceive, however you perceive.”
You performed MGP’s spouse, let all of the seventy-seven dwarves, all the administrators I really feel like imagine me, as quickly as you bear in mind that you’re a hopeless case…”
The top is right here, it by no means ends…
The determine and voice of Mária Ronyecz stay on right here although she has already moved to the afterlife 35 years in the past.
I am unable to do away with the thought that every one this struggling may have been averted if his mother and father had determined to not let him develop up along with his grandparents, however to take him in and cherish him each blessed day.
He was searching for this cherishing all his life, and due to this fact he was unable to return to phrases with himself. Sadly, the self-destructive life-style quickly took its toll. But he may have shone in so many different fantastic roles!
He left within the fullness of his energy, within the prime of his life, and it’s for nothing that Attila József says so touchingly superbly You’re going to get outdated his poem, he may by no means develop outdated, and he may by no means be uncloudedly younger…
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Featured picture: Fortepan / Zoltán Szalay
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