Fodor Géza dramaturg. Géza Fodor (2 May 1943 – 7 October 2008) was a Hungarian

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

and

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

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, and

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

. He was one of the founding members of the Katona József Theater in Budapest. He worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

between 1967 and 1973 and at the

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of the

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...

thereafter.

Selected works

* Géza Fodor: ''Das hoffnungsloze Meisterwerk: Essays zus Musikphilosophie'', Traude Junghans Verlag, Cuxhaven-Dartford, 1999. 1943 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Hungarian philosophers Hungarian philosophers Hungarian art critics Hungarian literary critics Dramaturges 20th-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Hungarian male writers Hungarian male dramatists and playwrights {{Hungary-philosopher-stub