Geza Hovey was born on July 2, 1936 and died on April 10, 2002 in Budapest. Kossuth and Jászai Mari award-winning comedian, artist, and permanent member of the Society of Immortals. An exceptionally popular figure in the Hungarian cabaret genre, he has created an individual style with his independent productions. Now you can test how well you know it.
According to Peter Muller, Hovey “unforgivably hated three things: lies, stupidity and an unbridled thirst for power. With such a temper, a person becomes either a prophet or a clown.”
He was accepted three times to the Faculty of Acting, and was later enrolled as a worker at Kőbánya Porcelángyár at the Kálmán Rózsahegyi Acting School, where he attended József Sas and István Sztankay, among others. He worked as a factory worker for five years, until theater director Joseph Zendro, who noticed his talent, signed him to the Csokonai Theater in Debrecen in 1960. Here, among others, he played with Eva Temar, Erzhi Pachtor and Zoltan Latinovets. After the performances, he regularly parodied roles with his friends, often performed in community centers in the region, gaining more and more popularity.
In 1963, he returned to Budapest, received an operating license from the National Director’s Office, got shows all over the country, and then appeared more and more on Hungarian television, and also traveled abroad. In 1969, he signed a contract with Mikróskók Színpad led by János Komlós, where he was a member until 1982. In the 1970s, there was no New Year’s Eve without it.
According to memories, Hovey knew exactly how much he could say in any medium: his texts on television and radio were more restrained than his expressions in front of the small Mikróskök hall.
Since 1983, Ádám Ottó has signed a contract with the Madách Kamara Theatre, performing in front of the audience with his own scripts and plays. Submit it here Hovelia His solo evening, which he performed five hundred times. It was scheduled to be broadcast in 1987 food wagesEatwhich lasted until 2001. Hovey provided uninterrupted success even after the regime change, and the individual tone, style, and humor of his shows did not fundamentally change.
We remember him on his birthday.
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(Cover Photo: Jizza Hovey on June 27, 1996. Photo: Lajos Soós/MTI)
