Janos Békessy

Janos Békessy known with the pen name, Hans Habe was born on the 12^th February 1911 in Budapest; he died on the 29^th September 1977 in Lucarno. He was a Hungarian-Austrian writer and a newspaper publisher.

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He held the United States citizenship from the year 1941.

Janos Békessy wrote under the following pen name as well, Antonio Corte, Frank Richard, Frederick Gert, John Richler, Hans Wolfgang, Alexander Holmes and Robert Pilchowski.

Janos Békessy was born in the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His parents were of the Jewish origin though they converted to Christianity. The family moved to the city of Vienna after the World War I and it was there that he published one of the first daily tabloids of the country called Die Stunde from the year 1923 to the year 1926.

Janos Békessy was educated at the Franz-Joseph Gymnasium between the year 1921 and the year 1929. After that he began his study of Law and German literature at Heidelberg, though he returned to the city of Vienna due to the increasing Anti-Semitism in Germany.

Prizes

Ø  Jerusalem Medaille, 1942

Ø  Luxembourg War Cross, 1945

Ø  Theodor-Herzl-Preis, 1972

Ø  Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz, 1976

Ø  Konrad-Adenauer-Preis, 1977

Works

Ø  Drei über die Grenze (1936)

Ø  Eine Welt bricht zusammen (1937)

Ø  Tödlicher Friede (1939), also published as Zu spät? (1939) and in American edition as Sixteen Days

Ø  Kathrin oder der verlorene Frühling (1943)

Ø  Wohin wir gehören (1946)

Ø  Ob Tausend fallen (1941)

Ø  Walk in Darkness (1948)

Ø  The Black Earth (1952)

Ø  Ich stelle mich (1954)

Ø  Off limits (1955)

Ø  Im Namen des Teufels (1956)

Ø  Die Rote Sichel (1959)

Ø  Ilona (1960)

Ø  Die Tarnowska (1962)

Ø  Tod in Texas (1964)

Ø  Die Mission (1965, 1966)

Ø  Christoph und sein Vater (1966)

Ø  Im Jahre Null (1966)

Ø  Das Netz (1969)

Ø  Wien, so wie es war (1969)

Ø  Erfahrungen (1973)

Ø  Palazzo (1975)

Ø  Leben für den Journalismus 1976

Ø  Weg ins Dunkel (1977)

Ø  Ungarischer Tanz

Ø  Wie einst David