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An era in the life of the University of Theater and Film Arts is over. Forever. As is known, the professors who have long played a decisive role in the training of Hungarian actors have dropped out of university.
- Director Gábor Székely, who began teaching at SZFE in the 1970s, resigned.
- Director Gábor Zsámbéki left the university after forty-one years of education.
- The resigned Máté Gáspár is the director of the SZFE Institute for Art Theory and Mediation.
- Director Tamás Ascher, former rector of the university, has left.
- The actor Gábor Máté, director and director of the Katona József Theater, said goodbye.
- Béla Ildikó Enyedi, winner of the Béla Prize, Golden Bear Prize, film director
Dávid Szanitter, an actor from the Kolibri Theater, graduated from the Miklós Benedek class in 2002 and says that the teacher-student relationship is very important in arts education. This is because class teachers accompany students from the first day to the last, so their role is decisive in the lives of students. Irreplaceable.
Teaching is a matter of trust everywhere, especially in acting training, since here you build on yourself. I see the new leadership at the University of Theater and Film Arts omitting this not inconsiderable formula from the equation.
According to the actor, one of the biggest concerns right now is that the new leadership is trying to force entry into the training system and turn an artistic difference into a political issue. However, this does not mean revising or reforming what they want to change, but rather breaking something. Therefore, once the situation is resolved, it is doubtful that confidence can be built on the part of the students towards the new teachers. Because, as he says,
Surely there will be new ones, if for no other reason, those who have resigned must be replaced.
What are you doing here?
Márton Patkós is a young artist from the Örkény Theater:
I find it unacceptable that politics wants to make it impossible for young and talented people who want to learn with these tools. Politics has no voice in art and education. It should give you the most free space, but you can’t define it, much less hinder it.
Many people teach at SZFE, but the master’s degrees define the lives of the students the most. The teachers decide at the university which professors to call, which artistic direction to direct the students. Sanitary thinks about this:
For me Miklós Benedek was my class teacher, and I know that not everyone here agreed with what he represented, since he was more of a classical theater man, but he invited Sándor Zsótér to teach us, among other things.
Dávid Szanitter compares the situation with János Székely’s work The Governor of Caligula.
This lecture is about the emperor’s man trying to bring a statue of the ruler to the synagogue. The Jewish high priest maintains that from the moment the statue is brought in, the synagogue will be nothing more than a structure made of stones, it is precisely the essence that will be lost because there is no place for statues in their religion. A drama of two overlapping interests. I have a similar view of this whole SZFE situation.
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