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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 setting was an incredible college for an eighteen-year-old lady from the countryside. I skilled to be an actor, and I am unable to say that I used to be happy with what I skilled behind the scenes in what was undeniably the perfect theater within the nation on the time.
After all, I additionally noticed Mária Ronyecz many instances, even up shut. Exterior the stage, he consistently smoked, lit from one cigarette to a different, and steadily raised his glass. Perhaps he was by no means drunk, however he was consistently “floating”.
She was an amazingly nice actress, a real tragedy, the form 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 some other hundred years.
He grew up along with his grandparents
He was born in Kunágota on June 25, 1944, and went to elementary college there, whereas his mother and father had 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 severe trauma for him in his early years.
It isn’t attainable to clarify to a baby with logic why his mother and father don’t reside 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 in a position to go to secondary college in Budapest, graduating from Lajos Kossuth Business Technical School. It quickly turned clear how gifted he was, he recited many instances 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 had 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 faculty, and later stated: “I felt like a fly caught in a vinegar horseradish…”
He did not consider that he was fascinating 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 irrespective of how a lot recognition he obtained. Whilst a school pupil, he was inspired by Mária Sulyok, who was an actual outdated girl 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 Girls on the Szeged Outside Video games. After one of many performances, he approached Zoltán Latinovits and requested him: “Zoli, will I grow to be an actor…?” And Latinovits replied: “It will not be… it already is…”
Throughout his appearing internship in Madách, because of his one-sentence function, he was in a position to tour the world performing the “Beggar’s Opera”, one thing that fairly a couple of 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 below the title Opera in three acts, but it surely 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 faculty, he bought a contract in Pécs and in addition loads 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 probability for a profession newbie taking part in within the countryside, since at the moment virtually the entire nation adopted the TV video games, so the face, identify and voice of Mária Ronyecz shortly turned identified.
Recording of the TV model of Katona József Bánk bánk drama within the MTV studio. Zoltán Latinovits as Bánk and Mária Ronyecz as Gertrudis – Supply: Fortepan / Zoltán Szalay
(Theater-going members of my era had been nonetheless conscious of precisely how nice an actress she was, however nobody at WMN, for instance, knew who she was at first once I indicated that I wish to write an article for the eightieth anniversary of her beginning.)
He was in a position to play about twenty roles on this brief time in Pécs, adopted by twelve years within the Nationwide, the place he additionally bought vital 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 a couple of years in the past.
Orphan Kata Bethlen
Within the mid-seventies, a number of monodramas received 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 remarkable success monodrama: Kata Árva Bethlen, which he carried out within the Royal Cellar of the Buda Fort.
Ronyecz, who hardly ever speaks, talked at size about this function with Anna Földes, it’s value it to learn your mature ideashis accountable and acutely aware angle, his doubts and the slight pleasure that the unanimous skilled and public success gave him.
To place it mildly, it was not tough for him to determine with orphanhood.
By the way in which, he as soon as stated, when requested about his appearing desires, that he would not have one: “I even play the chair leg, that is why I turned 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 in addition in Füyok a téren. Love Emília Ódor! I additionally liked her function as a nun within the Sándor Pál film. In Gothár–Bereményi’s movie Megáll az vítá, it was surprising how she introduced the ill-fated instructor “Pickleface” to life.
Within the film Bespectacled, he truly 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 drawn to the humanities and isn’t appropriate for investigations, this was her final movie look.
Within the TV collection Linda – Supply: Hungarian Tv
Large 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 setting that he had at all times missed.
I’ve solely seen him reside right here, Schwajda (Saint household) and Spiro (Hen head) he additionally excelled in his performs. I additionally watched Coriolanus many instances. In her final function, she appeared as a dying spouse in Elias Canetti’s Wedding ceremony. The efficiency was haunting and harrowing as a result of whereas taking part in the dying spouse, she was actually dying and actually changing into a spouse once more.
An odd love
When it turned out that she was incurable, and the most cancers virtually devoured her total jaw, Péter Gál Molnár, the brazenly homosexual, feared theater critic, remarried Mária Ronyecz and nursed her persistently 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 truly drawn to ladies, however he by no means admitted it. Alternatively, 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 drawn to his personal intercourse.
MGP was an especially divisive determine in Hungarian cultural public life, both liked or hated. His vitriolic fashion and sharp language had been at all times prepared to reply when somebody objected to certainly one of his criticisms. THE Popping out in his e-book, revealed after his loss of life, the next testimony might be examine their relationship:
“I am out of fresh shirts. Ronyecz supplied to scrub. We went to the lavatory. The shirts remained unwashed.”
This ardour belonged to just one girl 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 could possibly be in large bother if Péter Molnár Gál turned 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 consider me, as quickly as you keep 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 reside on right here although she has already moved to the afterlife 35 years in the past.
I am unable to eliminate the thought that every one this struggling may have been prevented 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 in search of this cherishing all his life, and subsequently he was not in a position to come to phrases with himself. Sadly, the self-destructive life-style quickly took its toll. However what number of extra fantastic roles may he have shined in!
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 fantastically You’ll 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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