Mario Szenessy

Mario Szenessy (born September 14, 1930 in Veliki Bečkerek, Yugoslavia (today Zrenjanin, Serbia) - died October 11, 1976 in Pinneberg, Germany) was a Hungarian-German author, translator, and literary critic.
Biography
Mario Szenessy grew up in the Vojvodina in a multiethnic, multilingual environment. In 1942 his family moved to Szeged, Hungary where he studied Slavic and Germans and discovered the writings of Kafka and Thomas Mann. He became a school teacher and also taught Russian at the Medical Academy, (today Szeged University). Based on his writings about Thomas Mann he received a grant by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and thus came to the University of Tübingen in 1963, where he worked on Mann's novella Die Betrogene. Later, he moved to Berlin. Encouraged by Inge and Walter Jens, Szenessy started to write in German and published his first book in 1967, Verwandlungskünste. Marcel Reich-Ranicki wrote: He who is not a German writes...