Magdalena marsovszky biography

Magdalena Marsovszky was born in December 1954 in Budapest, Hungary.
Hungarian.
We are dealing with a different reality, a new 'magyarish conquest', a völkisch-nationalistic 'revolution', and thus the downfall of the democratic system.

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VISSZA A LISTÁHOZ

Magdalena Marsovszky:
The Ethnic Conception of Culture in Hungary
(In: Culture Europe, published by the Culture Europe Association, Nr. 38, 12/2002:
Special Issue: Populist Right, Far Right and Culture), Paris.

In a context of economic crisis and privatisations, the cultural policy led by Victor Orbans Government stirred old demons anti-Semitism, racism and deeply divided society between real Hungarians and the others.

As he celebrated his victory in the evening of May 1998, Prime Minister Victor Orban declared that the Hungarian nation did not cover the population living in Hungary and that he was the Prime Minister of the Hungarian nation as a whole. His words, stamped with the history of past centuries, still sound explosive to this day in Hungary. They served as a guideline to the political and cultural action of Mr. Orbans Government for four years.

Mr. Orbans remark refers to the fact that since 1989-90 Hungary has been facing the most violent cultural conflict in ist history, and it reflects his trying to heal the ailing

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“The DNA of the Hungarian Race Shows that It Is Chosen”

09 2000

Magdalena Marsovszky

An Essay on Cultural Identity in Post-socialist Hungary

“While human DNA has two or three spirals within a given length, the DNA of the Hungarian race has nine ... which is identical to the number of rotations of light from the planet Sirius when it reaches the Earth. The cosmic origin of Hungarian intelligence, the Hungarian soul and the Hungarian minds is a result of this fact.” This was written in July 2000 by a undersecretary of the conservative coalition government currently in power in Hungary. While he clearly stated that his theories on modern Hungarian cultural history were formulated as an amateur researcher and private person, they appeared in a magazine with obvious radical right-wing leanings, “Hungarian Democrat,” which has close ties to the government. Although the undersecretary reached a much wider audience when expounding his theories on one of the most popular programs on Kossuth-Radio, a Hungarian broadcaster, no one bothered to complain, at least not in public,

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Budapest: A „völkisch” revolution?

transform > correspondence

23 09 06

Magdalena Marsovszky

längere deutschsprachige Version auf haGalil.com: http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2006/09/ungarn.htm

In the course of Monday night, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, has experienced the heaviest disturbances for decades. The demonstrators demanded the resignation of the socialist-liberal government coalition, chanting repeatedly ’Ria, Ria, Hungaria’ and ’Revolution! Revolution!’, and demanded that at last, ’Hungary should belong to the Hungarians, and not to capitalistic groupings’. Amongst the sea of Hungarian flags, so called Arpad Stripes, which had once had been one of the symbols of the fashist, hungaristic movement of 1944, could also be detected.

So what had happened? The day before, a fragment of a recorded protocol of a closed session of the Hungarian socialist party MSZP was leaked to the media. In the live recording, briefly after the parliamentary elections of 23rd April, amongst other things, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány said that they (the socialists) had lied. ’