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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 atmosphere was an amazing faculty for an eighteen-year-old lady from the countryside. I skilled 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 one of the best theater within the nation on the time.
After all, I additionally noticed Mária Ronyecz many occasions, even up shut. Outdoors the stage, he continuously smoked, lit from one cigarette to a different, and regularly 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 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 together with his grandparents
He was born in Kunágota on June 25, 1944, and went to elementary faculty there, whereas his dad and mom 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 dad and mom could have been a severe trauma for him in his early years.
It’s not attainable to elucidate to a baby with logic why his dad and mom don’t stay with him, why he spends his on a regular basis life together 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 School. It quickly turned clear how proficient he was, he recited many occasions at numerous 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 12 months, and within the meantime he was a member of the novice theater firm of the FMH (Fővárosi Műlvödési Ház).
Supply: Fortepan / János Kende
Lastly, he joined Ottó Ádám’s class the next 12 months: 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 performing 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 fascinating sufficient, proficient sufficient, lovely sufficient, regardless that he was given alternatives, however he might 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 university pupil, he was inspired by Mária Sulyok, who was an actual outdated girl within the theater world and really not often 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 turn out to be an actor…?” And Latinovits replied: “It will not be… it already is…”
Throughout his performing internship in Madách, as a result of his one-sentence position, he was capable of tour the world performing the “Beggar’s Opera”, one thing that fairly a number of folks had the chance to do on the finish of the sixties.
The troupe traveled from Moscow to Turin, and he all the time 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 might already be the title character: Kocsma Jenny. It was performed in a special translation underneath 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 obtained a contract in Pécs and likewise plenty of alternatives. As an actor from Pécs, on the age of solely 24, he performed the position 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, title and voice of Mária Ronyecz shortly turned recognized.
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 technology had 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 start.)
He was capable of play about twenty roles on this quick time in Pécs, adopted by twelve years within the Nationwide, the place he additionally obtained vital roles, regardless that 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 number of 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 exceptional success monodrama: Kata Árva Bethlen, which he carried out within the Royal Cellar of the Buda Fort.
Ronyecz, who not often speaks, talked at size about this position with Anna Földes, it’s price 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 troublesome for him to determine with orphanhood.
By the best way, he as soon as stated, when requested about his performing desires, that he does not have one: “I even play the chair leg, that is why I turned an actor”.
Films in all portions
We noticed Mária Ronyecz in many various movies, she performed in Sevasz, Vera! within the well-known movie show and likewise in Füyok a téren. Love Emília Ódor! I additionally liked her position 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 trainer “Pickleface” to life.
Within the film Bespectacled, he really obtained to put on his iconic glasses, one thing he not often obtained to do on stage. Ultimately, she even appeared within the tv sequence Linda within the position of a detective who’s drawn to the humanities and isn’t appropriate for investigations, this was her final movie look.
Within the TV sequence 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 really surrounded by an mental atmosphere that he had all the time 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 position, she appeared as a dying spouse in Elias Canetti’s Marriage 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 total jaw, Péter Gál Molnár, the overtly homosexual, feared theater critic, remarried Mária Ronyecz and persistently cared for her till her loss of life.
That they had 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 drawn to girls, however he by no means admitted it. However, an alibi relationship got here in helpful for MGP, as a result of he was became 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 all the time able to reply when somebody objected to one in all his criticisms. THE Popping out in his e book, printed after his loss of life, the next testimony could be examine their relationship:
“I am out of fresh shirts. Ronyecz provided to clean. We went to the toilet. 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, normally for weeks in a foggy state, after that my soul wandered round you, you went backwards and forwards in my head. […] You might 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 imagine me, as quickly as you bear in mind that you’re a hopeless case…”
The tip is right here, it by no means ends…
The determine and voice of Mária Ronyecz stay on right here regardless that 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 might have been averted if his dad and mom had determined to not let him develop up together with his grandparents, however to take him in and cherish him each blessed day.
He was searching for this cherishing all his life, and subsequently he was unable to return to phrases with himself. Sadly, the self-destructive way of life quickly took its toll. But he might 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 might by no means develop outdated, and he might by no means be uncloudedly younger…
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Featured picture: Fortepan / Zoltán Szalay
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