Index – Culture – Béla Udvaros, theater director, died at the age of 95.



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Béla Udvaros, director and writer and founding director of the Gospel Theater, died Thursday at the age of ninety-five. The news was communicated to MTI by her daughter, Dorottya Udvaros.

In January of this year, Béla Udvaros celebrated her ninety-fifth year with her family. He died in his sleep Thursday morning. Béla Udvaros is regarded by the Hungarian Lutheran Church as her own death, and her funeral will be arranged later.

Béla Udvaros was born in Budapest on January 10, 1925, graduated from the Faculty of Performing Arts in 1951, and then became director of scholarships at the Hungarian People’s Army Theater (today’s Comedy Theater) at the invitation of the then director in chief Zoltán Várkonyi. In 1954 he was hired for the Déryné State Theater, since 1957 he worked as director at the Katona József Theater in Kecskemét for sixteen seasons, and then at the Békéscsaba Theater for eleven seasons. For twenty years he dealt with MOM actors, including Gyula Illyés’ drama Mill on the Seed.

In 1990, he founded and directed, organized, and directed the Gospel Theater for almost two decades. At the age of eighty-four, in 2009, as a farewell, he directed The Tragedy of Man.

His work was recognized with the Official Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 1995 and with the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2015. In 2019, he received the Flórián Kováts Commemorative Medal from the Hungarian Academy of the Arts for his decades of work.

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