József Romhányi (8 March 1921 – 7 May 1983) was a
Hungarian writer, poet, translator, and artist.
Originally he wanted to be a musician and learned
viola
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in the ''Székesfővárosi Felsőbb Zenei Iskola'' musical school. From 1951 he worked as a playreader on Hungarian Radio, and in 1957 he became the director of the art department of the Hungarian State Concert and Programme Directorate. Between 1960 and 1962 he was the director of the popular art section of
Hungarian Television Hungarian may refer to:
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. From 1962 he was a playreader in the Main Musical Department of Hungarian Radio.
He wrote several
libretto
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s for Hungarian operas, including ''Hunyady'' for
Rezső Sugár
Rezső Sugár (October 9, 1919 – September 22, 1988) was a Hungarian composer.
Rezső Sugár was born in Budapest. He studied musical composition under Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1937 to 1942. He was a teacher ...
(1953), ''Báthory Zsigmond'' for
Horusitzky Zoltán (1960), and ''Muzsikus Péter'' for
György Ránki (1963).
He translated several operas and musicals into
Hungarian; the best known is ''
Cats
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''.
He wrote scripts for the cartoons ''Lúdas Matyi'' and ''Hófehér''.
He is known for his animal poems that were released after his death with the title ''Szamárfül'' ("Earmark" and "Ear of a Donkey").
He is perhaps best known for the scripts of various Hungarian cartoon series, including ''Mézga Család'' (
The Gums
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), the ''Kérem a következőt!'' ("Next, please!" or "Dr. Bubo", 1973–74) and some translations for
dubbed versions of American cartoons, like the rhyming translation of ''
The Flintstones'' and of ''
Huckleberry Hound''. He was nicknamed ''"Romhányi, a rímhányó"'', a rhyme meaning "Romhanyi the Rhyme-Thrower".
Sources
* Reményi Gyenes István: Ismerjük őket? Zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka, Budapest, Ex Libris kiadó, 2000.,
*
Magyar életrajzi lexikon
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* Kemény Egon
External links
Hunagrian Dubbing Database
Online poems
Author page on Moly.hu*
Wikiquotes
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1921 births
1983 deaths
Hungarian translators
Hungarian poets
Hungarian librettists
Hungarian television writers
Male television writers
Writers from Budapest
20th-century translators
20th-century Hungarian screenwriters